List of online educational resources

This is a list of online education platforms such as open source, online university, and proprietary platforms.

Free or open-source platforms and resources

See also: List of chatbots, List of online integrated development environments, List of educational video websites, List of academic databases and search engines, and Comparison of source-code-hosting facilities

• Academic Earth
• Alison
• Bookboon
• Boundless
• CK-12 Foundation — customizable digital textbooks and learning resources (FlexBook)
• Code.org
• Codecademy
• CodeSandbox — web-based integrated development environment for programming
• Codewars — competitive programming challenges in an online IDE
• Comparison of chatbots — ChatGPT, DeepSeek, Google Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, Perplexity AI.
• Curriki
• Desmos — graphing calculator
• diagrams.net – software for diagrams such as flowcharts, wireframes, UML, organizational charts, and network diagrams.
• Eliademy
• EarSketch — musical programming using Python and JavaScript as an audio programming language
• Firebase Studio — online integrated development environment (IDE) developed by Google
• FreeCodeCamp
• GeoGebra — interactive geometry, algebra, statistics and calculus web-app.
• GitHub Codespaces — online IDE for programming
• Google Colab — Jupyter notebook for Python programming, machine learning, data science, and educational technology.
• GNU Octave — open-source alternative to MATLAB for computational mathematics
• Google Scholar
• H5P — framework for creating, sharing, and reusing interactive HTML5 content.
• Internet Archive
• Jupyter Notebook — web-based interactive computational notebook environment
• Kaggle — data science competition platform, free courses and tutorials, and Jupyter Notebook.
• KaTeX.org
• Khan Academy
• LibreTexts
• Markdown editors — CoCalc, TiddlyWiki, Gollum, and Wiki.js.
• Medscape
• MERLOT
• MIT App Inventor — high-level block-based visual programming language to create computer applications for Android and iOS
• Mozilla Developer Network
• NCBI Bookshelf
• OER Commons
• Open access journals
• Open Course Library
• openHPI — MOOC in the field of computer science and information technology
• OpenLearn
• openPlaG — web-app function graph plotter
• openSAP
• p5.js — creative coding digital art
• PhET Interactive Simulations
• Project Euler
• Project Gutenberg
• Replit — online integrated development environment
• Sci-Hub — platform that provides access to academic papers
• Saylor Academy
• Stack Overflow — question-and-answer website for computer programmers
• SWAYAM
• TeX editors — Authorea, CoCalc, and Overleaf.
• Tinkercad — 3D modeling
• Tinkercad Circuits — electronic circuit simulator that supports Arduino Uno microcontrollers, Micro:bit boards, or ATtiny chips.
• W3Schools — freemium educational website for learning coding online
• Wikibooks
• WikiEducator
• Wikipedia Sandbox — sandbox to learn Wikitext and computational writing making tables, graphs, LaTeX, math and chemistry notation.
• Wikiversity
• Wolfram MathWorld and WolframAlpha
• YouTube EDU ^{[1] [2] [3]}

University-based resources

• MIT OpenCourseWare
• OpenStax - Rice University open licensed textbooks
• Open.Michigan
• Open Universities Australia
• Open Yale Courses
• Stanford Online
• University of London Worldwide
• Professional and Lifelong Learning - Harvard University

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Proprietary platforms

• Art of Problem Solving
• Brightstorm
• Brilliant
• Coursera
• Coursmos
• Duolingo
• edX
• FutureLearn
• Grok — xAI chatbot
• Grovo
• Kadenze
• Khanmigo — Khan Academy chatbot assistant
• LinkedIn Learning
• Lyryx Learning
• MasterClass
• Microsoft Copilot chatbot
• OpenClassrooms
• OpenLearning
• Open University
• Pluralsight
• SageMath
• Shaw Academy
• SitePoint – website, and publisher of ebooks, courses and articles for web developers.
• Skillshare
• Skillsoft
• Symbolab — computational mathematics
• Treehouse — web design, web development, mobile development and game development.
• Udacity
• Udemy
• iversity
• The Teaching Company

See also

• Computer-based mathematics education
• Competitive programming online platforms
• Comparison of e-readers — Comparison of Android e-reader software and Comparison of iOS e-reader software
• Google Books, Apple Books, Kindle Store, Kobo Books, Nook, Scribd, Audible, Project Gutenberg, Internet Archive, Bookmate.
• List of learning management systems — Moodle, Blackboard Learn, Sakai, Google Classroom, and GitHub Classroom.
• List of digital library projects
• List of educational software
• List of free and open-source software packages
• List of MOOC providers
• List of online learning communities
• List of open-source software for mathematics
• Lists of academic journals
• Lists of books
• Massive open online course
• Mathematical software
• National Repository of Open Educational Resources
• Open Educational Resource (OER) Universitas
• Online credentials for learning
• Online learning in higher education
• Online music education
• Open Education Resources
• Open learning Initiative
• OpenCourseWare

References

1. Lechtenberg, Ula. "Guides: OER: Open Educational Resources: Finding OER -- The Big List". pitt.libguides.com.
2. Products, Academic Services and (January 14, 2025). "List of Open Educational Resources and Repositories".
3. Salley, Katrina. "Transy Library: OER: Open Educational Resources: Big List of Resources". libguides.transy.edu.
4. "Free Courses". Professional and Lifelong Learning. Retrieved 26 August 2025.