These resources are suitable for learners of all ages: students as well as workplace learners and lifelong learners - as well as teachers, educators and trainers.
- 5min Life Videopedia - instructional and how-to videos
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- Adrian Bruce's Educational teaching resources: reading games, maths games, etc for kids
- Alison - free global learning experience
- About.com - Guidance, not guesswork. 750 experts to help you
- About.U - Courses by email
- Academic Earth - Thousands of video lectures from the world's top scholars
- AllExperts - Ask any question! Allexperts.com is the oldest & largest free Q&A service on the Internet
- Answerbag - Ask questions and share your knowledge with the world
- Anything - Learn.Anything.Network
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- BBC Learning - a range of online-based courses that you can work through at your own pace
- Becoming human - Educational resource (with video)
- Big Picture - The Wellcome Trust's Big Picture series is a free post-16 resource exploring issues around biology and medicine
- Big Think - a global forum connecting people and ideas.
- blip.tv - next generation TV network
- Blood Typing - Simulation/game to learn about blood typing.
- BrainHoney - a social learning environment where anyone can teach a lesson on any subject. Users can rank lessons and collaborate as they learn from each other.
- Campusbug - combines social networking, online education, and e-commerce into a simple and easy-to-use online experience.
- Carnegie Mellon Open Learning Institute (OLI) - OLI builds courses that are intended to enact instruction – or, more precisely, to enact the kind of dynamic, flexible, and responsive instruction that fosters learning.
- Complete works of Charles Darwin online - Largest collection of writings by and about Darwin ever published.
- Computer Tutor - The BBC's guide to using a computer
- Connexions - A place to view and share educational material made of small knowledge chunks called modules that can be organized as courses, books, reports, etc.
- Coursefeed - The world's top universities such as Stanford, MIT, Yale and Notre Dame have made courses free and open to the public. We've aggregated this learning into CourseFeed where you can study along side learners from all over the globe.
- Course Hero - a Social Learning Network built to provide students and key learning partners like professors a platform to share, meet and collaborate while accelerating their comprehension of course-related theories and concepts
- Course Smart - distributes content from these publishers of higher education materials.
- Crabby Office Lady Videos - Humorous videos of Office problems
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- DailyLit - Choose the book you want to read. It will show you the number of instalments to read it. Then read it via email or RSS
- Diary of Samuel Pepys - Read a daily entry or a monthly summary via RSS
- DNA from the beginning - The science behind each concept is explained by: animation, image gallery, video interviews, problem, biographies, and links.
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- E-Books Directory - a daily growing list of freely downloadable ebooks, documents and lecture notes found all over the internet.
- EdSurf - The online distance education learning resource for adult students
- Education.Podcast.com - Education podcasts from universities, colleges, students, teachers -- everyone who uses podcasting to learn and to teach others
- Educator - Scholastic lecture video archives
- Encyclopdia.com - Verified facts, information, and biographies from trusted sources
- eHow - How to do just about everything
- Einztein Knowledge Network - Connect your favorite courses to relevant learning resources. Exchange knowledge and information with other members whose academic interests match yours. Join peers and professors in exploring the newest academic frontier:
- Encarta - encyclpaedia, dictionaries, atlas, etc
- eSchola - education network to share your knowledge, ideas, and experience with everyone
- Experience Project - a community of everyday people connecting anonymously through their shared life experiences & passions.
- Expert Village - How to videos, free video clips and more
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- Flat Knowledge - Free online textbooks
- Free and Affordable Distance Education - tutorials, courses, tests, test prep
- Free.Ed.net - The world's largest, fastest growing, most highly regarded source of totally free education
- FreeSkills - over 650 free tutorials
- Free Tutorial For .. - Search from over 38m free tutorials
- FindTutorials.com - free tutorials
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- GCF Learn Free - The freedom to learn, what you want, when you want
- getDocued - links, reviews, searches and archives the best documentaries and lectures that can be found on the worldwide web
- Goodtyping.com - Online typing course
- Google Video - videos on all topics
- Grammar Girl's Quick and Dirty Tips to Better Writing - A podcast series on English grammar
- Graspr - The instructional video network
- Gresham College Lecture Archive - recorded lectures from Gresham College
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- Hippocampus - Free one-stop educational resource
- Howcast - How-to videos
- How stuff works - Online reference tool
- How the human brain works, New Scientist
- How to be a gardener - Online resource on gardening
- How To books - read free online books
- HowToDoThings - "a site that solves people’s problems"
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- iCue - A fun, innovative, learning environment built around video from the NBC News Archives
- iNatomy - iPod anatomy learning resources
- infoplease - All the knowledge you need
- Instant Anatomy - A website with illustrations of the Human Body to aid the learning of Human Anatomy with diagrams, podcasts and revision questions
- Instructables - Make, HowTo and DIY
- Intel Technology Wiki - Add personal anecdotes about the effects convergent technologies have had on your life
- intute - Free Internet tutorials to help you learn how to get the best from the Web for your education and research.
- iPL - The Internet Public Library
- iTunes Podcasts - The iTunes Store offers more than 100,000 audio and video podcasts
- iTunes U - Faculty are using iTunes U to distribute digital lessons to their students, e.g Stangord, Trinity College Dublin, etc.
- iWise - making the world's wisdom universally accessible and useful
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- John Locker - Documentaries and educational videos
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- Keybr - Online keyboarding lesson
- Knol - Share what you know and write a knol
- KnowledgeHound - The HowTo Hunter
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- LazyLibrary - Find books on any topic without having to worry about high page counts. If it's over 200 pages, you won't even see it
- Learn Origami Online - Search for diagrams and find out how to fold them
- LearnToDance - These online dance lessons will teach you the basic dance steps and styling for the dance style you choose
- Learn to play the piano - A video course
- Lectr.com - The knowledge sharing community
- Learner.org - Teacher resources and teacher professional development programming across the curriculum
- learners.org.uk - Online games and communities for adults and communities
- Learn Everything - Expert guidance from real people searching for the best the Internet has to offer
- LeanHub - the communities and experts to help you get ahead in education so you can get ahead in life!
- Learning by screencast - Using screencasts to teach
- Learningpage - provides a huge collection of professionally produced instructional materials you can download and print. Lesson plans, books, worksheets, and much more
- LearnOutLoud - one-stop destination for audio and video learning (many free)
- LearnThat - Free tutorials and free courses
- LessonBItes - Provides lessons in bite sizes (like individual tracks of a CD) so you can learn what you want
- LIFE: A Journey through time - Lyrical interpretation of life on Earth from its earliest beginnings to its present diversity.
- LitSum - Literature summaries and guides
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- Mahalo Answers - you can ask and answer questions on any topic
- MathTutor - Watch mathtutor videos on your iPod
- MindBites - Video instructional marketplace and publishing platform (Some free)
- MindZeit - helping you develop through multimedia
- MIT OpenCourseWare - Free lecture notes, exams, and videos from MIT.
- MonkeySee - HowTo videos
- Morse Code Trainer - Test 1: Listen and guess; Test 2: Morse the letter
- Mosio - a mobile community enabling you to text any question from your phone and have it answered by real people
- Moving Image Archive - This library contains thousands of digital movies uploaded by Archive users which range from classic full-length films, to daily alternative news broadcasts, to cartoons and concerts.
- National History Education Clearinghouse - designed to help K-12 history teachers access resources and materials to improve U.S. history education in the classroom.
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- neoK12 - free educational videos and lessons for K-12 school kids
- netzspannung.org - an eTeaching platform for Media Arts & Electronic Culture
- Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci - Read a page a day using your RSS reader
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- Office Word 2003 demos - Screencasts of how to carry out Word tasks in Word 2007 (Others available for other MS Office products)
- Open2.net - the online learning portal from The Open University and the BBC.
- OpenLearn - free access to Open University course materials.
- Open Of Course - your education when you need it and how you need it. Free for you to use, edit and redistribute
- Open Yale - provides free and open access to a selection of introductory courses taught by distinguished teachers and scholars at Yale University.
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- Peacemaker - Challenges you to succeed as a leader where others have failed
- Periodic Table of Elements - Interactive Web 2.0 periodic table with dynamic layouts showing names, electrons, oxidation, trend visualization, orbitals, isotopes, search.
- Periodic Table of Videos - Tables charting the chemical elements have been around since the 19th century - but this modern version has a short video about each one.
- Peter's Online Typing Course - A set of free online typing lessons and typing exercises for beginning typists
- Physics Games - Online Physics based games
- Podcast Alley - Featuring the best Podcast Directory and the Top 10 podcasts, as voted on by the listeners.
- PodcastDirectory - This education podcast database has been constructed and is maintained by David Noble
- Podictionary - Podictionary is the audio word-a-day. For a couple of minutes Charles Hodgson discusses the unexpected history of words you thought you already knew
- Podiobooks - Free serialized audio books, delivered on your schedule - by podcasts
- ProjectExplorer - Features free virtual fieldtrips for the k-12 classroom with over 175 short videos, lesson plans, blogs, and encyclopedia-style research
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- Questia - trusted online research
- Questioon - a social utility enabling you to pose questions to Google or Real People.
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- Rapid Typing Zone - Typing tutor, typing games and tests
- Refdesk - Fact checker for the Internet
- Reference.com - a multi-source encyclopedia search service
- Research Channel - 3,500 video titles available
- (The) Resistors - The use of interactive 3D technology to present a number of science equipment and experiments in an immersive way
- Rocket Science 101 - Interactive demo of rockets
- Rota Period - A new way at looking at the periodic table
- Rouxbe - Videos on how to create cooking recipes
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- SafetySkills - free courses making it easy for small businesses to provide critical occupational health and safety training, without requiring an up-front investment.
- School of Everything - a community of people teaching and learning.
- SchoolTube - provides students and educators a safe, world class, and FREE media sharing website that is nationally endorsed by premier education associations
- Schoox - a Knowledge Society whose members share and manage knowledge through publishing and attending online courses, organizing web meetings, participating in groups and placing questions and answers.
- Scitable - free science library and personal learning tool brought to you by Nature Publishing Group
- Sclipo - helps you to teach and learn just about everything, from technology to languages or cooking, and connects you with people of common interests
- Showmehowtoplay - Free music lessons
- ShowMeNow - Packed with illustrated step-by-step tutorials, it is a witty, irreverent reference that teaches you life's most essential skills
- SitesALIVE - Skipper/teacher Rich Wilson shares his voyages as he sails across the world
- SmartHistory - This site is being developed as a dynamic enhancement (or even substitute) for the static traditional Western art history textbook (Winner Webby 2009 Education award)
- Slideshare - presentation slidesets on many different topics
- smart.fm - the place you go to learn
- Sofia - an open content initiative that encourages the free exchange of community college-level materials on the World Wide Web.
- Songsterr - Play, learn and sing guitar on-line.
- SoYouWanna.com - teaches you how to do all the things nobody taught you in school
- Sparkeo - a flexible video platform
- Spenglr - a free online education and test preparation site for students and adults.
- Squidoo - Ideas, recommendations and more computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D
- (The) Symphony - An interactive guide to the great composers of the finest symphonies
- SuTree - learn virtually everything by watching how to videos from all over the web.
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- TeacherTube - educational videos
- TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) - a clearinghouse that offers free knowledge and inspiration from the world's most inspired thinkers, and also a community of curious souls to engage with ideas and each other.
- textbooksfree.org - Free text books and/or course notes
- The Library Infinite - Once you choose an archetype, you are shown many types of free software and web sites specifically chosen for your interest
- The Times Spelling Bee - Practise your spelling and track your progress (Webby 2009 nominee)
- Timeline of art history - Interactive timeline from Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Tourcaster - The largest online library of downloadable tours for iPods and mp3 players.
- Tufts Open Courseware - start of a new educational movement initiated by MIT that provides free access to course content for everyone online.
- Turning the pages - Leaf the great books at the British Museum
- typeonline.co.uk - A structured touch typing course for motivated individuals looking to develop their keyboard skills
- Typing Web - free online typing tutor & keyboarding tutorial for typists of all ages. All skill levels will benefit from TypingWeb's free keyboarding lessons.
- TV Lesson - How to videos
- Twittez - a simple Twitter application that lets you get your answers from fellow Twitters, all you have to do is tweet with "does anyone know?" with your question
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- UMass Boston OCW - free and open educational resource for faculty, students, and self-learners world wide.
- Universal Leonardo - Programme aimed at deepening our understanding of Leonardo da Vinci through a series of European exhibitions (2006), scientific research and web-based resources.
- University of the People - is the world’s first tuition-free, online academic institution and will open its virtual doors in April 2009
- Unnecessary Knowledge - for entertaining facts and information (which might or might not be true!)
- U-Now - University of Nottingham’s formal open courseware initiative
- University of Southern Queensland OpenCourseWare - provides access to free and open educational resources for faculty members, students, and self-learners throughout the world
- Ustream - watch live broadcasts, explore networks ranging from music, talk shows, sports and politics and/or review our past broadcasts.
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- Video Jug - Life explained. On film.
- Video-tutes - Video tutorials on using graphics programs
- Vimeo - a thriving community of people who love to make and share video
- Virtual Knee Surgery - flash and multimedia based e-learning
- Virtual Yeast Cell - This rich learning object is used to introduce yeast cytology to students taking Brewery Yeast Management
- Visible Body - Complete, fully interactive, 3D human body model
- Vocab Sushi - The better way to build your vocabulary
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- WannaLearn.com - Over 350 categories of free, first-rate, family-safe online tutorials, guides and instructionally oriented websites
- Walking - A daily email with a walking assignment, walking lesson, nutrition tip, healthy recipe and motivational tip.
- Webcast/Courses - free courses from University of Berkeley at California
- What is a print? - Interactive tutorial
- We chose the moon - Relive the Apollo 11 launch
- WikiAnswers - a wiki-based Q&A project powered by contributors from all walks of life. Anyone can ask, answer or edit questions, building a global Q&A database, covering all topics.
- Wikieducator - Free eLearning content that anyone can edit and use
- Wikipedia - collaborative encyclopaedia
- WikiHow - The how-to manual that anyone can write or edit
- Wikiversity - A community for the creation and use of free learning materials and activities
- WonderHowTo - hand-selects and curates the best instructional videos from over 1,700 websites
- WordAhead - Watch vocabulary videos
- Word of the Day - Every day you will receive an e-mail with the Word of the Day, its definition and example sentences from literary works, newspapers, magazines and other published sources.
- WW1 Experiences of an English Solider - The blog is is made up of transcripts of Harry Lamin's letters from the first World War. The letters are posted exactly 90 years after they were written
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- Yahoo Answers - ask, answer and/or discover
- YouTube - videos on everything under the sun
- YouTube EDU - aggregates all the videos from more than 100 institutions of higher education around the US.
