Favorite Online Education

This features a list of all of my favorite online education sites and apps.

Marvin Belser
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  1. Khan Academy is not-for-profit with the goal of changing education for the better by providing a free world-class education to anyone anywhere.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
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  2. Udemy icon
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    This online learning platform offers over 250,000 courses in subjects like programming, data science, and design. Available in 75+ languages with lifetime access.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
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    Wikibooks is a Wikimedia community for creating a free library of educational textbooks that anyone can edit.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
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  4. edX icon
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    Offers online courses from top institutions worldwide, integrating the latest technology to transform learning and allowing flexibility through open-enrollment courses.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
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  5. Quizlet icon
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    Simple tools for learning anything. Search millions of study sets or create your own. Improve your grades by studying with flashcards, games and more.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
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  6. Moodle icon
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    Moodle is an open source tool for creating online dynamic web sites for their students. To work, it needs to be installed on a web server somewhere, either on one of your own computers or one at a web hosting company.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Self-Hosted
    • Cloudron
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  7. Authoring tool for interactive eLearning, screen recording, and video editing with support for flexible layouts, quiz integration, and export to video, HTML5, SCORM, xAPI, PDF, and office formats.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
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    Zeqr is a live knowledge sharing platform connecting knowledge seekers and expert tutors in real-time sessions for a unique learning experience, with video calling and screen-sharing built-in.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
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  9. An online learning platform with unlimited courses, workshops, and teacher collaboration at a low monthly fee. Courses and video lessons of drawing, general computing, web design, web development and more.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Windows Mobile
    • Android
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    So.cl (pronounced "social") is a social networking service and social search engine operated by Microsoft FUSE Labs. Usage of the services is currently unavailable for users under the age of 18.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • Windows Phone
    • iPad
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  11. theLearnia is a free social educational network that allows millions of online students around the world to gain equal opportunity for education, learn while communicating together and share their knowledge.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Online
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  12. myVLE icon
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    myVLE is free, powerful, easy-to-use and ready-to-deploy Course Management System (CMS), also known as a Learning Management System (LMS) or a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE).

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
  13. Playir icon
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    Create your own mobile apps & 3D multiplayer games with our super-easy design tools for iOS, Android, Windows Phone and HTML5! Less programming, more playing.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • Windows Phone
    • iPad
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  14. Degreed icon
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    A million ways to learn, one place to discover, track and measure all of it. Get recognized for your skill, knowledge, and accomplishments with Degreed.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • iPhone
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  15. FUN MOOC icon
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    FUN: Higher Education Excellence. Online, Free and Open Courses.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
  16. This website is created for students and learners. Our database contains 19 796 courses/programs from 30 providers.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
  17. iversity icon
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    iversity.org is the European platform for online learning that enables universities to share a broad range courses with students from around the globe, providing them with the opportunity to earn recognised credentials, no matter where they are.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
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  18. All the most useful Rules of Algebra in one place: easy to understand, free, searchable, ad-free, open-source, and accompanied by informative descriptions & examples.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
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  19. Edustation is a language learning platform for individuals, and SaaS language system for tutors, schools and companies.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    LEARN section - inside the course, schedule and an exercise
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  20. Connects scientists to share papers, datasets, and findings, discover global research, track publications, and engage in scholarly discussion within a scientific network.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • iPhone
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  21. Google Scholar is a freely accessible web search engine that indexes the full text of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines. Released in beta in November 2004, the Google Scholar index includes most peer-reviewed online journals of Europe and...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
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    Mendeley helps manage and share academic knowledge: Mendeley Desktop is free academic software (Windows, Mac, Linux) for organizing and sharing research papers and generating bibliographies with 1GB of free online storage to automatically back up and synchronize your library...

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    Generate Bibliographies in Word and OpenOffice
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  23. DeepDyve icon
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    DeepDyve provides simple and affordable access to millions of articles across thousands of peer-reviewed journals. Content from the world's leading publishers including Reed Elsevier, Springer, Wiley-Blackwell, and more.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Internet Explorer
    • Google Chrome
    • Firefox
  24. Winner of the SIIA Business Technology CODiE Award for Best Scholarly Research Information Solution, ACI is revolutionizing the way people conduct research by enabling them to find the content they’ve been missing.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Google Chrome
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  25. Academig icon
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    With Academig, It's easy to build a professional academic website using a step-by-step process geared specifically to academics. Bring your personal website or research lab website to life today, make everyone in your lab proud of you, and update it easily over time.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
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  26. Semantic Scholar (paywall free) is a science publication aggregator that collects citation-data from PubMed, CiteSeer, IEEE etc and rank each article according to the percieved number of impactful citations.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
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  27. Jetpens icon
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    Japanese pens and stationery.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
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  28. Whitelines® Link is a happy combo of physical and digital notes. You could call it a clever scanner-app that in combination with Whitelines® Link paper makes it super easy to capture, save and share your notes.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPhone
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  29. HandMadeWritings is a professional provider of custom writing that includes, but is not limited to, essays, research papers, term papers, dissertations, and all other types of academic assignments.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
  30. ResearcherPRO has been designed to help researchers and anyone who is interested in reading papers, in facilitating many operations such as discover them, organize them, sync them and note taking on them.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • iPhone
    • iPad
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  31. PeerLibrary is an open source project developing a collaborative online community where scholars and researchers can discover, read, and discuss scholarly literature all within one site. This project focuses on expediting access to publications, enabling public recordings of...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
  32. Microsoft Academic Search is an experimental research service developed by Microsoft Research to explore how scholars, scientists, students, and practitioners find academic content, researchers, institutions, and activities.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
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  33. is a social networking website for academics. The platform can be used to share papers, monitor their impact, and follow the research in a particular field. It was launched in September08, with 31 million registered and over 8 million uploaded texts.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
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  34. Qiqqa icon
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    Qiqqa is a free research and reference manager. Search for, read and annotate your PDFs. Then review your work, write up and create bibliographies instantly.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  35. Papers helps you collect and curate the research material that you're passionate about. This award-winning reference manager will improve the way you find, organize, read, cite, and share.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Microsoft Edge
    • Google Chrome
    • Safari
    • Firefox
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  36. ReadCube icon
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    ReadCube’s desktop and mobile iOS applications are available free for both Mac & PC and offers researchers the ability to discover and access literature faster, organize their literature and enjoy interactive reading of scholarly articles. Features include:

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • iPad
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  37. Paperpile icon
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    Organize your research papers in a Gmail-like web app, sync your PDFs to Google Drive and cite your references in Google Docs.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Google Chrome
    • Microsoft Office Word
    • Google Drive
    • Google Drive - Docs
    • Google Scholar
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  38. Weava icon
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    Weava is a collaborative workplace for research offering an easy way to highlight, organize and collaborate on your research articles.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Google Chrome
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  39. Scientilla is a new approach to give the scientific community an open, free, accurate, tidy and up-to-date production reporting solution.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
  40. RefWorks icon
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    RefWorks - an online research management, writing and collaboration tool - is designed to help researchers easily gather, manage, store and share all types of information, as well as generate citations and bibliographies.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
  41. Biohunter icon
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    Biohunter is a single portal which provides literature search, data statistics, reading, sorting, storing, journal suggestion for publication, field expert identification and their contact details for collaboration. www.biohunter.in.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
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  42. Perhaps the world’s best reference tool. Create citations, reference lists and bibliographies.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
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  43. Zotero icon
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    Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, share research and cite your research sources directly in your favourite word processor, with 300 MB free online storage.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Microsoft Edge
    • Google Chrome
    • Safari
    • Microsoft Word
    • Google Docs
    • LibreOffice
    • Mozilla Firefox
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  44. Wonder icon
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    Your personal research assistant. Ask Wonder a question and move on with your day

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
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Comments

Arian Ullah
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Whta about Codecademy?

lupuleasai
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I would also add Pluralsight and Brilliant.org to the list

For extra coding, codinggame and codeacadamy are also good

Gu