100+ Free Websites to find out about Anything and Everything

100+ Free Websites to find out about Anything and Everything:

This is an alphabetical list of websites where you can find out about anything and everything - whether it be a small fact or a large body on knowledge.

The websites cover a wide range of informational and educational topics and include general reference resources, how-to guides, wikis, how-to videos, podcasts, courses, lessons, tutorials (including open courseware), e-books as well as other reference resources and places to ask questions both online and on your mobile.

The resources are suitable for learners of all ages: students as well as workplace learners and lifelong learners - as well as teachers, educators and trainers.

  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. Lectr.com - The knowledge sharing community
  46. Learner.org - Teacher resources and teacher professional development programming across the curriculum
  47. learners.org.uk - Online games and communities for adults and communities
  48. Learn Everything - Expert guidance from real people searching for the best the Internet has to offer
  49. LeanHub - the communities and experts to help you get ahead in education so you can get ahead in life!
  50. Learning by screencast - Using screencasts to teach
  51. Learningpage - provides a huge collection of professionally produced instructional materials you can download and print. Lesson plans, books, worksheets, and much more
  52. LearnOutLoud - one-stop destination for audio and video learning (many free)
  53. LearnThat - Free tutorials and free courses
  54. LessonBItes - Provides lessons in bite sizes (like individual tracks of a CD) so you can learn what you want
  55. Mahalo Answers - you can ask and answer questions on any topic
  56. MindBites - Video instructional marketplace and publishing platform (Some free)
  57. MindZeit - helping you develop through multimedia
  58. MIT OpenCourseWare - Free lecture notes, exams, and videos from MIT.
  59. MonkeySee - HowTo videos
  60. Mosio - a mobile community enabling you to text any question from your phone and have it answered by real people
  61. 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.
  62. Open2.net - the online learning portal from The Open University and the BBC.
  63. OpenLearn - free access to Open University course materials.
  64. Open Of Course - your education when you need it and how you need it. Free for you to use, edit and redistribute
  65. Open Yale - provides free and open access to a selection of introductory courses taught by distinguished teachers and scholars at Yale University.
  66. Podcast Alley - Featuring the best Podcast Directory and the Top 10 podcasts, as voted on by the listeners.
  67. PodcastDirectory - This education podcast database has been constructed and is maintained by David Noble
  68. Questia - trusted online research
  69. Questioon - a social utility enabling you to pose questions to Google or Real People.
  70. Refdesk - Fact checker for the Internet
  71. Reference.com - a multi-source encyclopedia search service
  72. School of Everything - a community of people teaching and learning.
  73. SchoolTube - provides students and educators a safe, world class, and FREE media sharing website that is nationally endorsed by premier education associations
  74. Sclipo - helps you to teach and learn just about everything, from technology to languages or cooking, and connects you with people of common interests.
  75. ShowMeNow - Packed with illustrated step-by-step tutorials, it is a witty, irreverent reference that teaches you life's most essential skills
  76. Slideshare - presentation slidesets on many different topics
  77. Sofia - an open content initiative that encourages the free exchange of community college-level materials on the World Wide Web.
  78. SoYouWanna.com - teaches you how to do all the things nobody taught you in school
  79. Spenglr - a free online education and test preparation site for students and adults.
  80. Squidoo - Ideas, recommendations and more
  81. SuTree - learn virtually everything by watching how to videos from all over the web.
  82. TeacherTube - educational videos
  83. 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.
  84. Tufts Open Courseware - start of a new educational movement initiated by MIT that provides free access to course content for everyone online.
  85. TV Lesson - How to videos
  86. 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
  87. UMass Boston OCW - free and open educational resource for faculty, students, and self-learners world wide.
  88. University of the People - is the world’s first tuition-free, online academic institution and will open its virtual doors in April 2009
  89. Unnecessary Knowledge - for entertaining facts and information (which might or might not be true!)
  90. Video Jug - Life explained. On film.
  91. Vimeo - a thriving community of people who love to make and share video
  92. U-Now - University of Nottingham’s formal open courseware initiative
  93. University of Southern Queensland OpenCourseWare - provides access to free and open educational resources for faculty members, students, and self-learners throughout the world
  94. Ustream - watch live broadcasts, explore networks ranging from music, talk shows, sports and politics and/or review our past broadcasts.
  95. WannaLearn.com - Over 350 categories of free, first-rate, family-safe online tutorials, guides and instructionally oriented websites
  96. Webcast/Courses - free courses from University of Berkeley at California
  97. 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.
  98. Wikieducator - Free eLearning content that anyone can edit and use
  99. Wikipedia - collaborative encyclopaedia
  100. WikiHow - The how-to manual that anyone can write or edit
  101. Wikiversity - A community for the creation and use of free learning materials and activities
  102. WonderHowTo - hand-selects and curates the best instructional videos from over 1,700 websites
  103. WordAhead - Watch vocabulary videos
  104. Yahoo Answers - ask, answer and/or discover
  105. YouTube - videos on everything under the sun
  106. YouTube EDU - aggregates all the videos from more than 100 institutions of higher education around the US.

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