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)
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.
GCF LearnFree [2021]
Hundreds of high-quality illustrated articles and videos focusing on technology, job training, reading, and math skills, produced by the Goodwill Community Foundation. Click here to see all available content.
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.
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
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.