Book Dash Books
African storybooks for children, available for anyone to freely print, translate and distribute. BookDash believes that every child should own a hundred books by the age of five.
Boundless Textbooks
An amazing collection of searchable textbooks on a variety of advanced subjects, including extensive linked definitions of terms.
Great Books of the World
A searchable, categorized selection of over 400 of the most beloved and respected books from around the world, collected from Project Gutenberg.
- Top 100 Favorites
- Top 100 Non-Fiction
- Adventure (24 titles)
- Biographies (24 titles)
- Children's Stories (23 titles)
- Comedy & Humor (38 titles)
- Drama (35 titles)
- Fantasy (20 titles)
- Folklore (7 titles)
- Historical Fiction (38 titles)
- Historical Non-Fiction (30 titles)
- Horror (18 titles)
- Mystery (17 titles)
- Philosophy & Religion (30 titles)
- Poetry (41 titles)
- Romance (35 titles)
- Science Fiction (27 titles)
- Short Stories (25 titles)
Fantastic Phonics for Adults
Fantastic Phonics for Adults is a powerful collection of literacy tools - including over 140 lessons and almost 300 videos.
Fantastic Phonics
Fantastic Phonics is a complete 16 week intensive reading scheme for schools and families, with 60 printable stories, multimedia and video.
Food Plant Solutions
Delivering self-sustaining solutions to hunger, malnutrition and food security in countries throughout the developing world. The project focuses on empowering people through a better understanding of the value of their own local food resources.
- Angola
- Bengladesh
- Cambodia
- Democratic Republic of Congo
- Democratic people's Republic of Korea
- Ecuador
- Ethiopia
- Guinea-Conakry
- Haiti
- Indonesia
- Kenya
- Lesotho
- Madagascar
- Mozambique
- Nepal
- Nigeria
- North West China
- North East India
- Northern Thailand
- Pakistan
- Papua New Guinea
- Philippines
- Sierra Leone
- Solomon Islands
- South Africa
- Sri Lanka
- Swaziland
- Tanzania
- Timor Leste
- Uganda
- Vietnam
- Western Pacific
GCF LearnFree.org
Hundreds of high-quality illustrated articles and videos focusing on technology, job training, reading, and math skills, produced by the Goodwill Community Foundation.
- Career Planning
- Computers
- Devices
- Digital Lifestyle
- Email Basics
- Everyday Life
- Internet Basics
- Job Development
- Mac OS Basics
- Math Basics
- Money
- Office 2000
- Office 2003
- Office 2007
- Office 2010
- Office 2013
- Office XP
- OpenOffice
- Online Safety
- Photos and Graphics
- Reading
- Social Media
- Using the Cloud
- Windows
- Workplace Skills
Hesperian Health Guides
Easy to understand, practical, accurate, and heavily illustrated guides on health topics that for remote areas where access to medical personnel and facilities is limited.
- Where There Is No Doctor. A village health care handbook. (Printable PDF)
- Where There Is No Dentist (Printable PDF)
- Where Women Have No Doctor (Printable PDF)
- Disabled Village Children (Printable PDF)
- Women with Disabilities - A Health Handbook (Printable PDF)
- A Book for Midwives: Care for pregnancy and birth (Printable PDF)
- Helping Children Who Are Deaf (Printable PDF)
- Helping Children Who Are Blind (Printable PDF)
- Cholera Prevention Fact Sheet (Printable PDF)
- Sanitation and Cleanliness for a Healthy Environment (Printable PDF)
- Water for Life - Community water security (Printable PDF)
- A Community Guide to Environmental Health (Printable PDF)
- Helping Health Workers Learn (Printable PDF)
These materials do not provide medical advice and are for informational purposes only. This content is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always seek the advice of a qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition. Never disregard professional medical advice or delay in seeking it because of something you have read here.
UNESCO's IICBA Electronic Library
Teachers' resources from the UNESCO International Institute for Capacity Building in Africa.
Infonet-Biovision
Well organized and illustrated information on a wide range of agricultural, environmental, and health topics.
- Plant
- Crops, fruits, vegetables and grains
- Pests and diseases
- Medicinal plants
- Fruit and vegetable processing
- Natural pest control
- Cultural control practices
- Human
- Healthy food
- Nutrition related diseases
- Insect transmitted diseases
- Zoonotic diseases
- Hygiene and sanitation
- Animals
- Animal husbandry and welfare
- Livestock species and commercial insects
- Livestock health and diseases
- Fodder production
- Products
- Environment
- Agro-ecological zones
- Water management
- Soil management
- Sustainable and organic agriculture
- Conservation agriculture
- Trees
- Processing and value addition
Over 80 printable magazines on farming from Kenya. Used by over 60,000 farmers for guidance and practical tips on securing and increasing their harvests through simple, environmentally friendly means.
Kolibri
Kolibri makes high quality education technology available in low-resource communities such as rural schools, refugee camps, orphanages, non-formal school systems, and prison systems.
Math Expression
Math tutoring materials including videos, study tips, practice questions and step-by-step solutions.
For each lesson, read the study tips carefully and take note of the important concepts/ideas before watching the video. These tips will guide you in your math thinking strategies.
MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia
More than 4,000 cross-referenced medical articles from the U.S. National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health. Includes comprehensive illustrations and photographs.
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| Cp-Cz | D-Di | Dj-Dz | E-Ep | Eq-Ez | F | G |
| H-Hf | Hg-Hz | I-In | Io-Iz | J | K | L-Ln |
| Lo-Lz | M-Mf | Mg-Mz | N | O | P-Pl | Pm-Pz |
| Q | R | S-Sh | Si-Sp | Sq-Sz | T-Tn | To-Tz |
| U | V | W | X | Y | Z | 0-9 |
These materials do not provide medical advice and are for informational purposes only. This content is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always seek the advice of a qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition. Never disregard professional medical advice or delay in seeking it because of something you have read here.
OER Africa - Reading
Reading is an essential skill for all of us and developing our skills in reading is a good investment. This unit is packed with practical activities which are aimed at making reading more enjoyable and rewarding. This unit also includes sections on how to read actively and critically.
OER Africa is a ground-breaking initiative established by the South African Institute for Distance Education (Saide). We play a leading role in supporting higher education institutions across Africa in the development and use of Open Educational Resources (OER) to enhance teaching and learning. Click here to download the OER Africa brochure.
OLPC Educational Packages
A collection of educational materials consolidated by the OLPC project.
Peacebuilding Resources
This collection of articles, guides, and videos on building peace is a valuable resource for addressing issues that arise in conflict zones.
Practical Action
Well organized and illustrated information on a wide range of agricultural, environmental, and health topics.
- Agriculture
- Construction
- Crop processing
- Disaster response, mitigation and rebuilding
- Energy
- Environment and adaptation to climate change
- Fisheries
- Food processing
- Information, communication, learning
- Livestock
- Manufacturing, handicraft, process industries
- Natural resources management
- Social and economic development
- Transport and infrastructure
- Waste management
- Water and sanitation
Rapid Typing
RapidTyping is a convenient and easy-to-use keyboard trainer that will help you improve your typing speed and reduce typos. With its lessons organized around various keyboard groups, the RapidTyping software will teach you touch typing in a short time.
Download Rapid Typing 64bit (Recommended)
Please note the above links only work for Windows devices
Scale of the Universe
Explore the universe from the fantastically small to the awesomely large with this interactive demonstration of the size of things.
This module requires Flash or a Flash-capable browser like Chrome.
MIT Scratch
Scratch is a programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art.
As young people create and share Scratch projects, they learn important mathematical and computational ideas, while also learning to think creatively, reason systematically, and work collaboratively. Scratch is designed especially for ages 8 to 16, but is used by people of all ages.
Understanding Algebra
A complere, concise, and illustrated textbook introducing algebra that can be viewed here or printed out.
Wikipedia for Schools
This curated selection of articles from Wikipedia can be used offline by school children around the world. 6000 articles, 26 million words and 50,000 images make Wikipedia for Schools a rich and safe resource for teaching, learning, and research.
Wiktionary
Wiktionary is a collaborative project to produce a free-content multilingual dictionary. It aims to describe all words of all languages using definitions and descriptions in English.
Interactive World Map
Browse the world from the global to the local with this interactive and searchable world map from OpenStreetMaps and the XSCE project.