New! Potpourri of Cool Learning Sites

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 (US) and BrainPop (UK)- 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.  ShowMeNow – Packed with illustrated step-by-step tutorials, it is a witty, irreverent reference that teaches you life’s most essential skills

75.  Slideshare – presentation slidesets on many different topics

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

77.  SoYouWanna.com – teaches you how to do all the things nobody taught you in school

78.  Squidoo – Ideas, recommendations and more

79.  SuTree – learn virtually everything by watching how to videos from all over the web.

80.  TeacherTube – educational videos

81.  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.

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

83.  TV Lesson – How to videos

84.  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

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

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

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

88.  Video Jug – Life explained. On film.

89.  Vimeo – a thriving community of people who love to make and share video

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

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

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

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

94.  Webcast/Courses – free courses from University of Berkeley at California

95.  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.

96.  Wikieducator – Free eLearning content that anyone can edit and use

97.  Wikipedia – collaborative encyclopaedia

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

99.  Wikiversity – A community for the creation and use of free learning materials and activities

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

101.                Yahoo Answers – ask, answer and/or discover

102.                YouTube – videos on everything under the sun

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