Affordable Learning Solutions: Open Educational Resources by College

The Department of Geography at Penn State offers a variety of course material online in several subject areas.

From Tufts University, this course provides a basic set of tutorials for understanding how to use geographic and tabular data to visualize a community.

World Regional Geography is concerned with the physical and human characteristics that make the regions of our world distinctive.

Available for a nominal cost from Flat World Knowledge, this text is designed for students to experience and study as much of the world as possible within a limited amount of time.

This online tutorial was created to develop students' internet research skills, with specific reference to geographical information and topics. The tutorial contains a wide range of useful links to online learning materials, textbooks, multimedia, maps, digital data sets and more.

The Stanford Geospatial Center has gathered a series of websites that offer GIS Data to download for free. The data is classified per geographic extent and grouped by theme for each extent.