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Online Courses, Lectures, Tutorials
- Alison
- Alison offers
Free online courses from the world’s leading experts.
The classes are free, but you can pay to remove ads and to get certificates of class completion. - Class Central
Class Central is a search engine and reviews site for free online courses popularly known as MOOCs or Massive Open Online Courses.
- Coursera: Top Free Courses
Coursera partners with more than 200 leading universities and companies to bring flexible, affordable, job-relevant online learning to individuals and organizations worldwide.
While some of Coursera’s classes require fees, there are also a number of free offerings.- EdX
- EdX is a platform used to offer both free and pay online classes from a number of colleges and universities, including Harvard, MIT, Princeton, CalTech, Cambridge and others. Some classes are self-paced while others are offered on a regular class schedule; check the description of each class for detials.
- HippoCampus
HippoCampus.org is a free, core academic web site that delivers rich multimedia content–videos, animations, and simulations–on general education subjects to middle-school and high-school teachers and college professors, and their students, free of charge.
- Khan Academy
Khan Academy offers practice exercises, instructional videos, and a personalized learning dashboard that empower learners to study at their own pace in and outside of the classroom.
- LearnOutLoud: Free Audio & Video Directory
The LearnOutLoud.com Free Audio & Video Directory offers a selection of over 10,000 free educational audio and video titles. Our directory features free audio books, courses, documentaries, talks, interviews, speeches, and many other great free audio and video resources.
- NY Times Learning Network
Every school day since 1998, we have offered fresh classroom resources — from lesson plans and writing prompts to news quizzes, student contests and more — all based on the articles, essays, photos, videos and graphics published on NYTimes.com.
- OEDb: Online Education Database – Open Courses
OEDb is a comprehensive online education directory for both free and for-credit learning options.
Includes a listing of over 10,000 free online courses from colleges and universities.- OER Commons
OER Commons is a public digital library of open educational resources. Explore, create, and collaborate with educators around the world to improve curriculum.
Includes everything from individual illustrations to lessons, textbooks, guides, and even full courses.- Open Culture
Open Culture brings together high-quality cultural & educational media for the worldwide lifelong learning community. … Free audio books, free online courses, free movies, free language lessons, free ebooks and other enriching content — it’s all here.
- Schools with Free Online Classes
- The following schools offer free online classes. For more options, check EdX and Coursera. Carnegie Mellon — Harvard — Michigan State — MIT — Stanford — Yale.
- TED-Ed
- From the same organization which created TED Talks, TED-Ed
…supports learning — from producing a growing library of original animated videos , to providing an international platform for teachers to create their own interactive lessons, to helping curious students around the globe…
TED also sponsors the TED Radio Hour series of podcasts.
Online Textbooks
- CK12 FlexBooks
An online system for collaborative, custom-collated, self publishable educational content that can be adapted for individualized needs in a digital-age textbook known as a FlexBook.
- LibreTexts
- Free online textbooks for post-secondary studies, organized by subject and shared under Creative Commons licenses. Read them online or download them as PDFs. Most subject pages includes links to free online textbooks at various collegs and universities.
- MERLOT
- MERLOT offers thousands of quality open-source books and materials.
- Milne Open Textbooks
- Offers
a catalog of open textbooks authored and peer-reviewed by SUNY faculty and staff.
(Formerly known as ‘SUNY Open Textbooks’.) - OER Commons – Collections
OER Commons is a public digital library of open educational resources. Explore, create, and collaborate with educators around the world to improve curriculum.
Includes everything from individual illustrations to lessons, textbooks, guides, and even full courses.- Open Culture: Free Textbooks
Free textbooks (aka open textbooks) written by knowledgable scholars are a relatively new phenomenon. Below, find a meta list of 200 Free Textbooks, and check back often for new additions.
- OpenStax
- Free open-source textbooks in the sciences and humanities, plus free online AP Biology, Physics, and Economics textbooks.
- Open Textbook Library
Open textbooks are textbooks that have been funded, published, and licensed to be freely used, adapted, and distributed. These books have been reviewed by faculty from a variety of colleges and universities to assess their quality. These books can be downloaded for no cost, or printed at low cost.
- TextBookGo
- Free college-level textbooks online.
- Wikibooks
A Wikimedia community for creating a free library of educational textbooks that anyone can edit.
Try the WikiBooks Subject Listing page for quick access to various topics.