Wednesday, April 1, 2009

100 Free sites to learn about anything and everything




1.     5min
Life Videopedia
- instructional and how-to videos



2.     Alison
- free global learning experience



3.     About.com
- Guidance, not guesswork. 750 experts to help you



4.     About.U
- Courses by email



5.     Academic Earth - Thousands of video lectures from the
world's top scholars



6.     AllExperts - Ask any question! Allexperts.com is the oldest
& largest free Q&A service on the Internet



7.     Answerbag - Ask questions and share your knowledge with the
world



8.     Anything - Learn.Anything.Network



9.     BBC
Learning
- a
range of online-based courses that you can work through at your own pace



10.  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.



11.  BrainPop - creates animated,
curriculum-based content that supports educators and engages students



12.  Campusbug -
combines social networking, online education, and e-commerce into a simple and
easy-to-use online experience.



13.  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.



14.  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.



15.  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



16.  E-Books
Directory
- a daily growing list of freely downloadable ebooks, documents
and lecture notes found all over the internet.



17.  EdSurf
- The online distance education learning resource for adult students



18.  Education.Podcast.com
- Education podcasts from universities, colleges, students, teachers --
everyone who uses podcasting to learn and to teach others



19.  Encyclopdia.com
- Verified facts, information, and biographies from trusted sources



20.  eHow - How to
do just about everything



21.  Encarta -
encyclpaedia, dictionaries, atlas, etc



22.  Experience Project - a community of everyday people
connecting anonymously through their shared life experiences & passions.



23.  Expert
Village
- How to videos, free video clips and more



24.  Flat
Knowledge
- Free online textbooks



25.  Free and
Affordable Distance Education
- tutorials, courses, tests, test prep



26.  Free.Ed.net - The world's largest, fastest growing, most
highly regarded source of totally free
education



27.  FreeSkills
- over 650 free tutorials



28.  FindTutorials.com
- free tutorials



29.  GCF Learn
Free
- The freedom to learn, what you want, when you want



30.  Google Video
- videos on all topics



31.  Graspr - The
instructional video network



32.  Gresham College Lecture Archive - recorded lectures from
Gresham College



33.  Hippcampus
- Free one-stop educational resource



34.  Howcast -
How-to videos



35.  How stuff
works
- Online reference tool



36.  HowToDoThings
- "a site that solves people’s problems"



37.  How To books
- read free online books



38.  infoplease
- All the knowledge you need



39.  Instructables
- Make, HowTo and DIY



40.  iPL - The
Internet Public Library



41.  iTunes Podcasts - The iTunes Store offers more than 100,000
audio and video podcasts



42.  iTunes U - Faculty are using iTunes U to distribute digital
lessons to their students, e.g Stangord, Trinity College Dublin, etc.



43.  KnowledgeHound
- The HowTo Hunter



44.  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



45.  Learner.org - Teacher resources and
teacher professional development programming across the curriculum



46.  learners.org.uk
- Online games and communities for adults and communities



47.  Learn Everything
-
Expert
guidance from real people searching for the best the Internet has to offer



48.  LeanHub - the communities and
experts to help you get ahead in education so you can get ahead in life!



49.  Learning by screencast
- Using screencasts to teach



50.  Learningpage - provides
a huge collection of professionally produced instructional materials you can
download and print. Lesson plans, books, worksheets, and much more



51.  LearnOutLoud
-
one-stop destination for audio
and video learning (many free)



52.  LearnThat - Free tutorials
and free courses



53.  LessonBItes - Provides
lessons in bite sizes (like individual tracks of a CD) so you can learn what
you want



54.  Mahalo Answers - you
can ask and answer questions on any topic



55.  MindBites - Video instructional
marketplace and publishing platform (Some free)



56.  MindZeit - helping you
develop through multimedia



57.  MIT OpenCourseWare
-
Free
lecture notes, exams, and videos from MIT.



58.  MonkeySee
- HowTo videos



59.  Mosio - a mobile community
enabling you to text any question from your phone and have it answered by real
people 



60.  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.



61.  Open2.net - the
online learning portal from The Open University and the BBC.



62.  OpenLearn - free access to Open
University course materials.



63.  Open
Of Course
- your education when you need it and how you need it. Free for
you to use, edit and redistribute



64.  Open Yale - provides free and open
access to a selection of introductory courses taught by distinguished teachers
and scholars at Yale University.



65.  Podcast Alley - Featuring the best
Podcast Directory and the Top 10 podcasts, as voted on by the listeners.



66.  PodcastDirectory
- This education podcast database has been constructed and is maintained by
David Noble



67.  Questia
- trusted online research



68.  Questioon
- a social utility enabling you to pose questions to Google or Real People.



69.  Refdesk -
Fact checker for the Internet



70.  Reference.com
- a multi-source encyclopedia search service



71.  School of
Everything
- a community of people teaching and learning.



72.  SchoolTube
- provides students and educators a safe, world class, and FREE media sharing
website that is nationally endorsed by premier education associations



73.  Sclipo - helps you to teach and
learn just about everything, from technology to languages or cooking, and
connects you with people of common interests.



74.  Slideshare - presentation
slidesets on many different topics



75.  Sofia - an open content
initiative that encourages the  free exchange of community
college-level
materials on the World Wide Web.



76.  SoYouWanna.com - teaches you how to do
all the things nobody taught you in school



77.  Squidoo -
Ideas, recommendations and more



78.  SuTree - learn
virtually everything by watching how to videos from all over the web.



79.  TeacherTube
- educational videos



80.  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.



81.  Tufts Open Courseware
- start of a new educational movement initiated by MIT that provides free
access to course content for everyone online.



82.  TV Lesson - How to videos



83.  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



84.  UMass Boston OCW - free and open
educational resource for faculty, students, and self-learners world wide.



85.  University of the People -
i
s the world’s first tuition-free, online
academic institution and will open its virtual doors in April 2009



86.  Unnecessary
Knowledge
-
for entertaining facts and information (which might or might not
be true!)



87.  Video Jug - Life explained.
On film.



88.  Vimeo - a thriving community of
people who love to make and share video



89.  U-Now
- University of Nottingham’s formal open courseware initiative



90.  University of
Southern Queensland OpenCourseWare
- provides access to free and open
educational resources for faculty members, students, and self-learners throughout
the world



91.  Ustream - watch live broadcasts,
explore networks ranging from music, talk shows, sports and politics and/or
review our past broadcasts.



92.  WannaLearn.com
- Over 350 categories of free, first-rate, family-safe online tutorials,
guides and instructionally oriented websites



93.  Webcast/Courses
- free courses from University of Berkeley at California



94.  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.



95.  Wikieducator - Free eLearning content that anyone can edit
and use



96.  Wikipedia -
collaborative encyclopaedia



97.  WikiHow 
-
The how-to manual that anyone can write or edit



98.  Wikiversity
- A community for the creation and use of free learning materials and
activities



99.  WonderHowTo - hand-selects and
curates the best instructional videos from over 1,700 websites



100.               
Yahoo
Answers
- ask, answer and/or discover



101.               
YouTube -
videos on everything under the sun



102.               
YouTube EDU -
aggregates
all the videos from more than 100 institutions of higher education around the
US.