FreeSources: Educational Resources

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Curated list of educational resources currently being offered for free.

ISTE & EdSurge are curating a list of free products offered by companies and organizations to support learning during extended school closures. Search the directory below to explore what products will best support your needs.

Shared spreadsheet compiled by OCLC showing a variety of resources that are being offered for free from the world of research/partner subscription services.

Gamify your students' learning. Premium available for free during the COVID19 outbreak.

From TechSmith, makers of SnagIt & Video Review: There are easy changes you can make to incorporate videos, screencasts (a video recording of a screen), screenshots, and images into your communications workflows to help maintain business and academic continuity while transitioning to full-time distance learning and remote work.

TechSmith is helping organizations and academic institutions who are preparing for prolonged absences and/or campus closures due to COVID-19. We are offering free access and expanded usage of tools that help enable business and educational continuity.

These temporary versions of TechSmith Snagit, our screen recording tool, and TechSmith Video Review, our asynchronous collaboration platform, will work through the end of June 2020. At that time, these versions will expire and you will be invited to switch to our normal trial versions.

700 textbooks in HTML format (through May 31, 2020)

Journal articles and issues in these syllabi are freely available online until September 30, 2020.

Online learning resources and open access to Gale in Context content.

Scholarly content from dozens of publishers.

Additional temporarily free ebooks include texts from Harvard Business, nursing, medical and other subjects.

Access to audio and ebooks appropriate for elementary students.

Access to audio and ebooks appropriate for middle school aged children.

Access to audio and ebooks appropriate for high school students.

With many instructors being asked to deliver course material in an online environment due to the COVID-19 virus, we are offering PsycLearn: Research Methods and PsycLearn: Introduction to Social Psychology for instructors to use with their students at no cost for the remainder of this semester. If you would like to use this material in your course, please send an email to psyclearn@apa.org and we’ll be in touch with next steps.

With many instructors being asked to deliver course material in an online environment due to the COVID-19 virus, we are offering PsycLearn: Research Methods and PsycLearn: Introduction to Social Psychology for instructors to use with their students at no cost for the remainder of this semester. If you would like to use this material in your course, please send an email to psyclearn@apa.org and we’ll be in touch with next steps.

The Digital Commons network is the largest repository of open access scholarly articles from educational institutions from around the world.

Additional full text articles can be found through the library's NYT database.

Business Fundamentals was developed by the Global Text Project, which is working to create open-content electronic textbooks that are freely available.

Website with several financial calculators, including: amortization, mortgage, debt payoff and more. The site also contains calculation worksheets and games

From Lumen Learning

JBCS is a widely cited, completely open access journal that is an essential for business education professionals. Published business case studies and solutions may be downloaded for use in the classroom and for research purposes. Topics may include but are not limited to accounting, business law, economics, ethics, finance, management, marketing, and related fields.

Videos on finance and macroeconomics.

Create and share lessons around any TED-Ed original, TED Talk or YouTube Video.

A collection of educational videos posted on YouTube.

The goal of this book is to guide you through this process of research writing by emphasizing a series of exercises that touch on different and related parts of the research process.

A free, comprehensive, peer-reviewed, award-winning Open Text for students and faculty in college-level courses that require writing and research.

Scott McLean’s Writing for Success is a text that provides instruction in steps, builds writing, reading, and critical thinking, and combines comprehensive grammar review with an introduction to paragraph writing and composition.

Topics in Volume 1 of the series include academic writing, how to interpret writing assignments, motives for writing, rhetorical analysis, revision, invention, writing centers, argumentation, narrative, reflective writing, Wikipedia, patchwriting, collaboration, and genres.

Volume 2 continues the tradition of the previous volume with topics, such as the rhetorical situation, collaboration, documentation styles, weblogs, invention, writing assignment interpretation, reading critically, information literacy, ethnography, interviewing, argument, document design, and source integration.

Simulations of different government positions, elections

Archived hub of free language learning of over thirty languages from British Broadcasting Company.

Chapeau! is a first-year college text from the University of Kansas. Includes a textbook (pdf), and workbook (pdf) with 24 accompanying audio exercises (mp3).

Freely accessible courses, modules, and audio materials for Arabic courses particular to specific regional dialects

“This website has activities for French learners at the beginning and intermediate levels. It is also suitable for independent study or practice.

A growing collection of language learning materials covering: Portuguese, German, French, Mandarin Chinese, Spanish, Arabic, Hindi, Italian, Russian, Yoruba, Biblical Hebrew, Japanese, Persian, Malayalam, and more

Open textbooks approved by the American Institute of Mathematics

From the National Science Foundation

Creates a Texas Instruments graphing calculator right on your Windows, Mac, or Android device.

Interactive techniques labs, online lessons in genetics, cell biology, evolution, human health, plants, neuroscience, ecology

Virtual microscope

High quality online educational resources for teaching and learning, with current emphasis on the sciences, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)

Pre-publication research and preliminary findings

Free interactive math and science simulations created by the PhET Interactive Simulations project at the University of Colorado Boulder

Simulations, tutorials, concept builders, aimed at HS but usable for college

Videos on physics, math, chemistry, and biology topics produced by the Teaching and Learning Lab at MIT

A virtual microscope collection that includes a full range of rock types native to Earth and beyond as well as minerals and a cabinet of curiosities.

Supplement to laboratory dissections exploring introductory mammalian anatomy and physiology

The official website for U.S. federal legislative information. Includes activities of Congress, status and text of bills, committee reports and homepages, historical documents, and more.

OER textbook by Adam J. McKee that overviews the criminal justice system of the United States. In six chapters, the book covers the workings of the legal system as well as policing, courts, corrections, and juvenile justice.

This book examines the moral and ethical issues that exist within law enforcement and also familiarizes the basic history, principles, and theories of ethics.

From the authors: "We made it as comprehensive as possible to cover core concepts and areas in the criminal justice system including theory, policing, courts, corrections, and the juvenile justice system. Additionally, we created examples that will help make difficult concepts or ideas more relatable. Every section provides an overview of key terms, critical thinking questions for course engagement, assignments, and other ancillaries such as multimedia links, images, activity ideas, and more."

Introduction to Sociology 2e adheres to the scope and sequence of a typical, one-semester introductory sociology course. It offers comprehensive coverage of core concepts, foundational scholars, and emerging theories.

A free law project from Cornell’s Legal Information Institute (LII), Justia, and Chicago-Kent College of Law—is a multimedia archive devoted to making the Supreme Court of the United States accessible to everyone.