Online Interactive Open and Free to Use Resources

Here are links to some free helpful resources:

CALI – Center for Computer-assisted Legal Instruction

CALI is a 501(c)(3) non-profit consortium of mostly US law schools that conducts applied research and development in the area of computer-mediated legal education.

Center for Open Educational Resources and Language Learning (COERLL)

The Center for Open Educational Resources & Language Learning (COERLL) is one of 16 National Foreign Language Resource Centers (LRC’s) funded by the U.S. Department of Education. The overall mission of these federally-funded centers is to improve the teaching and learning of foreign languages by producing resources (materials and best practices) that can be profitably employed in a variety of settings.

Virtual Labs and Science Resources

The BCcampus Open Education Virtual Labs and Science Resources lists free science resources designed to support remote science education. Note that, while all resources in this guide are free, not all are open. Resources that carry Creative Commons or otherwise open licences are clearly labelled.

Chem ReaX: Chemical Reaction Simulator

A web app offered by ScienceBySimulation for modeling and simulating basic chemical reactions.

Khan Academy

Khan Academy offers practice exercises, instructional videos, and a personalized learning dashboard that empower learners to study at their own pace in and outside of the classroom. We tackle math, science, computer programming, history, art history, economics, and more.

Language Collaborative

An open platform for sharing lessons and learning languages.

Learn.Genetics

Genetic Science Learning Center at the University of Utah

LibriVox

Free public domain audio books

Molecular Workbench

Visual, Interactive Simulations for Teaching & Learning Science

MyOpenMath

Open and free online interactive platform for math homework.

Open Case Studies

The Open Case Studies project at UBC brings together faculty and students from different disciplines to write, edit, and learn with case studies that are free and open–they are publicly available free of cost, and they are licensed to allow others to revise and reuse them.

PhET Interactive Simulations

Interactive Simulations for Science and Math

Physical Geology Laboratory: Animations and Interactive Questions

To help students practice skills to master learning objectives for physical geology laboratory.

The SimTech

Nursing and Health Science simulations and videos

Skills Commons

A free and open online library containing free and open learning materials and program support materials for job-driven workforce development created for the US Department of Labor’s Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training (TAACCCT) program.

Teach.Genetics

Genetic Science Learning Center at the University of Utah

WeBWorK

An open-source online homework system for math and sciences courses. WeBWorK is supported by the MAA and the NSF and comes with a National Problem Library (NPL) of over 20,000 homework problems.

Bretz Research Group

List of online Chemistry animations, videos, simulations, and demos.

Web Path: The Internet Pathology Laboratory for Medical Education

The WebPath® educational resource contains over 2700 images with text that illustrate gross and microscopic pathologic findings along with radiologic imaging associated with human disease conditions. For self-assessment and self-directed study there are over 1300 examination items. There are more than 20 tutorials in specific subject areas. These computer-aided instructional materials support educational programs in the health sciences.

HistoWeb

The images contained in the Histoweb site were obtained by taking photomicrographs of the tissue slides that are provided to the medical students taking the Cell and Tissue Biology Course at the University of Kansas.