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Discover learning materials in an Open Space. View and share free educational material that can be organized as books or other academic assignments.

Access the Following:

  • OpenStax Textbooks
  • Community-Created Content

Except where otherwise noted, content created on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

 

NanoPDF

NanoPDF acts as a gateway for those requiring this aid, and to provide a simple and fun platform for students to exchange, download teaching materials whilst getting to know each other.

 

2012 Book Archive

This serves as the archive of a small project by Andy Schmitz to create Creative Commons-licensed copies of all the books which were available online from a specific publisher at the end of 2012.

 

MIT OpenCourseWare

In using the MIT OPEN COURSEWARE

You are free to:

  • Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format
  • Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material
  • The licensor cannot revoke these freedoms as long as you follow the license terms.

Under the following terms:

  • Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
  • Noncommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.
  • hare Alike — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original.

 

KHAN Academy

Partnering with many post secondary schools, Khan Academy offers a useable, well organized interface. Also curating many courses from around the web, Khan Academy offers impressive depth on many different subjects.  Among the more well known educational sites, Khan Academy is also incredibly useable, which may make it easier to keep learning goals. It provides you with study material on various topics. This app has a personalized learning dashboard so that you can learn whenever you want. You can see tutorials, practice sets and math videos on it. Apart from mathematics, you can also find Economics, science, history, computer programming, social science, etc. on it. Khan Academy provides free content to users as it is a non-profit organization that provides everyone a chance to get a world-class education. You can simply visit their website as well and collect the content related to your subject.

 

Open Culture Online Courses

If you are struggling to find exactly the material you are looking for, try Open Culture’s listing of free online education courses. The page highlights 1000 lectures, videos and podcasts from universities around the world. The site features a lot of material found only on universities private sites, all in easy to browse categories. This means you can find hundreds of university courses, without having to visit and search each university’s own site.

 

Udemy

Udemy’s free courses are similar in concept to Coursera’s but additionally allows users to build custom courses from lessons.  Working with many top professors and schools, the site mixes the customizable platform of other sites with a heavy emphasis on top quality content. This is another site however, that mixes free and paid content.

 

Coursera

Coursera is a website that partners with universities and organizations around the world. This brings a wide variety of topics and perspectives to one searchable database. Coursera is a powerful tool for free online education, and includes courses from many top universities, museums and trusts. This gives the site an extremely wide range of in-depth courses. Coursera is extremely useful if you’re looking to study many different topics, or want courses from different schools and groups. Build skills with courses, certificates, and degrees online from world-class universities and companies.

 

Academic Earth

Another site with courses from many different schools is Academic Earth. Much like the three sites above, Academic Earth brings together top notch courses from many different sources, and focuses on offering a wide variety of subjects. Academic Earth lists courses by subject and school, so it might be easier to find what you’re looking for. Learn something new from the best universities with Academic Earth’s collection of free online college courses. Some of the courses can be viewed in YouTube. Explore!

 

Stanford Online

Stanford free online courses provide you with an affordable and flexible way to learn new skills and study new and emerging topics. Learn from Stanford instructors and industry experts at no cost to you. Stanford Engineering Everywhere (SEE) expands the Stanford experience to students and educators online and at no charge. A computer and an Internet connection are all you need. The SEE course portfolio includes one of Stanford’s most popular sequences: the three-course Introduction to Computer Science, taken by the majority of Stanford’s undergraduates, as well as more advanced courses in artificial intelligence and electrical engineering.

  • View complete lecture videos via streaming or downloaded media—anytime, anywhere—on your PC, Mac or mobile device.
  • Access full course materials including syllabi, handouts, homework, and exams.

Stanford encourages fellow educators to use Stanford Engineering course materials in their own classrooms. A Creative Commons license allows for free and open use, reuse, adaptation and redistribution of Stanford Engineering Everywhere material.

 

Open Yale Courses

Open Yale Courses provides free and open access to a selection of introductory courses taught by distinguished teachers and scholars at Yale University. The aim of the project is to expand access to educational materials for all who wish to learn.

  • All lectures were recorded in the Yale College classroom and are available in video, audio, and text transcript formats
  • Registration is not required
  • No course credit, degree, or certificate is available through the Open Yale Courses website. However, courses for Yale College credit are offered online through Yale Summer Online including OYC professors John Rogers and Craig Wright.” 

Open Yale Courses provides free and open access to a selection of Yale courses. The Open Yale Courses materials are provided on this site for non-commercial purposes only. Non-commercial purposes means that you may not sell, profit from, or commercialize Open Yale Courses, the materials or content within or works derived from them. Yale considers any use of Open Yale Courses and its content for the purpose of deriving profit or promoting a profit-based enterprise to be prohibited commercial use.

Any use of Open Yale Courses content or works derived from them should be attributed to the original Yale faculty member and Yale University. You must also provide attribution to the Open Yale Courses URL (http://oyc.yale.edu) and the Creative Commons licenses (BY-NC-SA) associated with Project. Please use the following format:

[Name], [Course Title] (Yale University: Open Yale Courses), http://oyc.yale.edu (Accessed Date). License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA

Example:
Shelly Kagan, Death (Yale University: Open Yale Courses), http://oyc.yale.edu (Accessed May 13, 2009). License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA

 

UC Berkeley Class Central

Much like the other schools on this list, UC Berkeley has a variety of free online education options. The school has slightly fewer courses than the schools above, but includes some supplementary lectures, webcasts and RSS Feeds, making it easy to keep up with the topics you choose.

 

Carnegie Mellon Open Learning Initiative

Carnegie Mellon’s free online education site is comparable with the other school’s on this list, however, Open Learning Initiative also covers a smaller range of topics. But for the topics that are covered impressive, in-depth material is available.

 

University of London Podcasts

The podcast page on the University of London website is another great source for free education. While the courses are limited to podcasts, the site features podcasts from it’s own campus, as well as eleven universities in and around London. This gives learners a wide base of topics and lectures, but still ensures in-depth material.

 

University of Oxford Podcasts

Similar to the University of London, the University of Oxford features many different podcasts. Most are public lecture series or lectures from visiting professors, with several different recordings available. The advantage to this particular site is that podcasts are organized into series, making it easy to subscribe to multiple lectures on one topic. Another good site for thoroughly in-depth lectures.

 

TED-Ed

Another great destination for more general learning is TED-Ed. From the same people that brought you the all encompassing, motivational web series, comes a site chocked full of educational videos. Most include impressive animation, and all are ten minutes long or less.

Not only is TED-Ed an excellent site for the curious, it also includes supplemental materials and quizzes on the videos. This makes the site extremely useful in formal education settings, as well as in entertaining ways to brush up on new discoveries and topics.

 

LessonPaths

LessonPaths is another great tool for those looking for a more usable and convenient way to access learning material. On this site, users create link playlists of their favorite learning materials from other sites. Users then rank these collections, making it easy to find many different high quality, accessible sources on a given topic.

 

Memrise

Another impressive free online education site offering ease of use and convenience is Memrise. Available both on desktop and as an app, Memrise is a particularly powerful tool if you are studying a language. The site encompasses many other topics as well, though some of the course material is user generated content. Part of what makes Memrise special is their integration of games into the learning materials, mixing learning with entertainment.

 

National Geographic Kids

The kids site for National Geographic is another site that makes free online education applicable for younger users. For those looking for kid friendly education, a large variety of games, puzzles, videos and photos keeps kids interested on this site. National Geographic Kids doesn’t organize learning into courses, making materials available by topic and medium instead. This makes National Geographic Kids a good option for those looking for a more casual learning environment.

 

Fun Brain

Fun Brain is another good option for kids who want to learn online, but focuses on games and fun puzzles. Particularly focused on math and reading, Fun Brain’s game based approach can be valuable if the child in question struggles to pay attention. Fun Brain offers rewards and challenges as well, and is another site aimed at a casual learning experience for kids K-8.

 

Whyville

Similar to the sites for kids free online education is Whyville a destination for preteen online learning. The site includes a variety of social features, with a focus on learning materials geared for young teens. Whyville also mixes in educational games, to make the site a well rounded option for kids too old for simple games, but too young for heavy reading based material.