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Cafe Scientifique is a place where, for the price of a cup of coffee or a glass of wine, anyone can come to explore the latest ideas in science and technology. Meetings take place in cafes, bars, restaurants and even theatres, but always outside a traditional academic context.

Gresham College, founded by Sir Thomas Gresham in 1597, is an independently funded educational institution based in Barnard's Inn, Holborn, in the centre of London. It provides free public lectures by its eight professors and holds other events. The college does not award degrees or teach courses.

HERO is the official gateway to universities, colleges and research organisations in the UK.

The Leicester Secular Society - oldest secular society in the world. Offers a programme of public talks and lectures.

The Love of Wisdom - links and discussions on all sorts of interesting topics.

openlearn - from the Open University. Free and open educational resources for learners and educators around the world.

ReadySteadyBook is an independent book review website devoted to reviewing the very best books in literary fiction, poetry, history and philosophy.

The Higher Education Academy - our mission is to help institutions, discipline groups and all staff to provide the best possible learning experience for their students.

The Institute of Ideas' mission is to expand the boundaries of public debate by organising conferences, discussions and salons, and publishing written conversations and exchanges.

Lecturefox will be a great source for students, teachers and learners. You will find lecture notes, podcasts and video lectures from universities all over the world - just one mouseclick away. And all for free. We have a passion for learning and we want to share this wonderful resources with you.

The Lecture List I've discovered that these guys beat me to it - they provide a similar service to open-lecture.net, though it allows talks and lectures with a slightly more commercial bent. I hope they don't mind the competition from open-lecture.net - why not try them out and use both? Here's what they have to say about themselves:

The Lecture List provides a moderated listing service for lectures around the UK, and enables registered users to keep up to date with talks by their favourite speakers, on their favourite subjects, in their favourite venues, and in their geographical area.

Open2net is the online learning portal from the Open University and the BBC.

openDemocracy.net is pioneering a new type of independent media based on exchange and participation.

SOSIG - Your Guide to the Best of the Web for Social Science.

The Resource Discovery Network is the UK's free national gateway to Internet resources for the learning, teaching and research community. The service currently links to more than 100,000 resources via a series of subject-based information gateways (or hubs). The RDN is primarily aimed at Internet users in UK further and higher education but is freely available to all.

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