Students are invited to visit PEOI's "Partners" section and see the list of institutions that have registered and are eager to serve PEOI's students. Also see the list of events and special offerings these institutions have posted in the "Partners" section.

PEOI recommends the Beijing Social University where PEOI courses can used for credit toward the degrees awarded by that institution.

To find on line courses, PEOI recommends Distance Learning Exchange maintained by the Pennsylvania Department of Education.

Excellent open content courses can be found at the Sharing of Free Intellectual Assets (SOFIA) which is maintained by Foothill College in Los Altos Hills, CA.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology offers its MIT OpenCourseWare (lecture notes and list of readings and assignments) at http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/home/home/index.htm
Carnegie Mellon University has a few open online courses at http://www.cmu.edu/oli/index.html (statistics, empirical research, life sciences, economics, logic and proofs, French).
Rice University offers open modules in its Connexion platform at http://cnx.org/

Kelly Sonora has compiled a list of open courses for those interested in business studies at Open for Business: 100+ Open Courseware Collections for Web Entrepreneurs .

The RESPECT web site provides education for refugees with correspondance courses conducted by volunteer tutors for small groups of refugees.

Open content not specifically intended for education can be found at:

· http://content.cdlib.org/escholarship/

· http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu

· Computer science: http://www.oreilly.de/online-books/english.html

· Algebra: www.ams.org/online_bks/online_subject.html

· Original free digital library of books no longer in copyright: www.gutenberg.org/catalog

· limited choice of books available:

· free computer and programming books: www.freetechbooks.com

· The National Academies Press: www.nap.edu

· Wikipedia and numerous other wikis have abundant open resources.

Students interested in French online courses can find a very comprehensive listing at UniversitySurf .

In addtion, a list of French online courses appears at at site de l'Urfist de Paris with material of special interest to economist found at Le Guide Ecoline.

The National College Testing Association (NCTA) at http://www.ncta-testing.org/. lists the testing centers which PEOI will use. Please also consult PEOI list of partner institutions. You may also approach your local insitution of higher learning to arrange for an in-person test.

There are other testing service providers where PEOI will set up final exams when needed. Some of these are located abroad.

Students looking for internship can visit http://www.hellointern.com/.