Education Resources
Online education resources include websites, apps, and other digital tools that help people learn. These resources can include courses, videos, and interactive activities. Open educational resources are teaching, learning, and research materials intentionally created and licensed to be free for the end user to own and share.
Govt of India Sponsored Educational Resources:
1. SWAYAM:
Program designed to bridge the digital divide for students who have hitherto remained untouched by the digital revolution and have not been able to join the mainstream of the knowledge economy. All the courses are interactive, prepared by the best teachers in the country and are available, free of cost to any learner.
2. National Digital Library (NDL):
Repository of e-content on multiple disciplines from primary to PG levels. It has 4.3 crores content (Text / Audio / Video / Simulation /Graphics), harvested from 250 sources; in 300+ languages. NDLI provides user group-specific services such as Examination Preparatory for School and College students and job aspirants in 10 most widely used Indian languages.
3. SWAYAMPRABHA:
Bringing quality education from leading and professors directly to your home, completely free of cost. Provides high quality educational programs with videos covering School Education, Higher Education & Competitive Exams
4. Virtual Labs:
Web-enabled curriculum based experiments designed for remote – operation with 275 labs with 2200+ experiments. This project is a consortium activity of twelve participating institutes and IIT Delhi is coordinating institute. It is a paradigm shift in ICT-based education. For the first time, such an initiative has been taken-up in remote‐experimentation.
5. DIKSHA:
DIKSHA (Digital Infrastructure for Knowledge Sharing) is a national platform for school education, an initiative of National Council for Educational Research and Training (NCERT), under the aegis of the Ministry of Education (MoE), GoI has been adopted by almost all the States, Union Territories, central autonomous bodies/boards including CBSE.
6. Epathshala:
Epathshala provides Free access of e-books ( class I to XII) through website and app
7. e-PG Pathshala:
e-PG Pathshala is a gateway for e-books up to PG which provides High quality, curriculum based, and interactive e-content in 70 subjects across all disciplines of social sciences, arts, fine arts and humanities, natural & mathematical sciences,
8. e-ShodhSindhu:
Collection of e-journals, e-journal archives and e-books on perpetual access basis. It has 10,000+ e-journals, 31,35,000+ e-books. Consortia for Higher Education E-Resources is to provide access to qualitative electronic resources including full-text, bibliographic and factual databases to academic institutions at a lower rates of subscription.
9. Shodhganga (A Reservoir of Indian Theses):
Platform for research students to deposit their Ph.D. theses and make it available to the entire scholarly community in open access. Theses and dissertations are known to be the rich and unique source of information, often the only source of research work that does not find its way into various publication channels.
10. VIDWAN:
VIDWAN is an Expert Database and National Research Network which has profiles of scientists / researchers and other faculty members working at leading academic institution.
Other Educational Resources:
1. Khan Academy:
Khan Academy empowers learners to study at their own pace, both in and out of the classroom. Covering subjects from kindergarten through early college, including math, science, reading, computing, history, art history, economics, financial literacy, SAT, MCAT, and more.
2. The Open University (OpenLearn):
OpenLearn is a free learning platform, delivered by The Open University as part of its Royal Charter commitment to support the wellbeing of the community. The OpenLearn team plan, commission and develop content that unites faculty and University priorities with areas of topical and general interest.
Initiative of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to publish all of the educational materials from its undergraduate- and graduate-level courses online, freely and openly available to anyone, anywhere.
4. Stanford Online (Free Online Courses):
Stanford Online offers learning opportunities via free online courses, online degrees, grad and professional certificates, e-learning, and open courses.
5. Harvard University (Free Courses):
Harvard University is devoted to excellence in teaching, learning, and research, and to developing leaders who make a difference globally.
6. Class Central (Free Certificate Courses):
Class Central aggregates courses from many providers to help you find the best courses on almost any subject, wherever they exist.
7. edX:
edX is the online learning destination co-founded by Harvard and MIT. The Open edX platform provides the learner-centric, massively scalable learning technology behind it.
8. Coursera:
Coursera partners with more than 350 leading universities and companies to bring flexible, affordable, job-relevant online learning to individuals and organizations worldwide.
9. Udemy:
Udemy is an online learning and teaching marketplace with over 250000 courses and 73 million students. Learn programming, marketing, data science and more.
10. FutureLearn:
FutureLearn is a UK-based online learning platform that partners with universities and organizations to offer a wide range of courses, programs, and degrees.
11. Codecademy (Learn to Code - for Free):
Each course chapter has coding tutorials, coding projects, code hints & solutions, AI to help you improve/understand/fix code, quizzes, videos, and more.
12. freeCodeCamp (Learn to Code — For Free):
You'll learn to code by building dozens of projects step-by-step – right in your browser, code editor, or mobile app. You'll also earn free verified certifications along the way.