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- 100 Useful, Free Web Tools for Lifelong Learners
Some of the suggestions duplicate sites mentioned elsewhere here, but it's a nicely categorized, annotated list of online learning, ebook, and reference tools.
- American Radio Works
"AMERICAN RADIOWORKS® is the national documentary unit of American Public Media. ARW is public radio's largest documentary production unit; it creates documentaries, series projects, and investigative reports for the public radio system and the Internet."
- 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." Includes some entire textbooks.
- Eduslide
"Eduslide allows anyone to create educational content and deliver it online, free of charge." Includes plenty of free lessons. (Formerly known as Tutorom.)
- FreeEd.net
Non-Credit self-paced online courses and tutorials.
- GCFLearnFree.org
Free online classes in a variety of topics in the areas of Everyday Life, Math & Money, Computers, and more.
- HippoCampus
"HippoCampus is a project of the Monterey Institute for Technology and Education (MITE). The goal of HippoCampus is to provide high-quality, multimedia content on general education subjects to high school and college students free of charge."
- Intute: Virtual Training Suite
"Provides free Internet tutorials to help you learn how to get the best from the Web for your education and research. Our tutorials are written and updated by a national team of subject specialists based in universities and colleges across the UK."
- Khan Academy
"The Khan Academy is a not-for-profit organization with the mission of providing a high quality education to anyone, anywhere." It has produced over 700 educational videos which are freely available on YouTube.
- Knowledge Hound, the How-To Hunter
"Knowledge Hound is a how-to directory that organizes thousands of free tutorials and tips into an easy-to-navigate format. The site also publishes original content in their 'KH How2s' section, as well as a free monthly newsletter."
- MediaSite.com
"Mediasite.com is about connecting smart people with people who want to get smarter. ... You have free, on-demand access to a steadily growing database of online technical content created by hundreds of experts."
- OEDb: Online Education Database
"OEDb currently contains reviews of 1,048 programs from 87 accredited online colleges." Also has financial aid information, and an extensive online library of articles about elearning and online education.
- OER Commons
"OER content is made free to use or share, and in some cases, to change and share again, made possible through licensing, so that both teachers and learners can share what they know. Browse and search OER Commons to find curriculum, and tag, rate, and review it for others."
- The Self-Directed Student Toolbox: 100 Web Resources for Lifelong Learners
"We've chosen the best resources for adult learners in ten categories to develop a self-directed toolbox that can lead you, the lifelong learner, to other resources that you may need to meet personal goals."
- Smart.fm
"Smart.fm takes the burden out of learning by automatically creating a learning schedule that adapts to the individual’s performance and needs. The system combines proven learning science with the latest in adaptive, semantic and social Web technologies."
- WannaLearn.com
"Over 350 categories of free, first-rate, family-safe online tutorials, guides and instructionally oriented Websites!"
this page last updated May 26, 2010