Education Links

Free educational videos, lectures, podcasts, notes, courses, etc

The aim of this section is to provide pointers to a wide range of free, on-line, self-study material

Broadcasters

High production values and a wide demographic target make much of this material almost effortless

The BBC iPlayer list of factual programs Recently aired programs can be re-played on-line in the UK^†
Radio 4 BBC talk radio with many documentaries, history and science programs^†
SBS Documentaries (Australian TV)
PBS Nova (American TV)
PBS Science & Nature
National Geographic Video Player
TVO podcasts

† some of the BBC's content may not be available outside the UK

Starter

Introductory level information much of which is aimed at children

Planet Science provides inspiration for young children interested in science
The Royal Institution has an on-line archive of science 'Christmas Lectures' for children (shown on British television) going back to 1962
The BBC Bitesize resources to help children revise for GCSE exams (Age 16)
Educational materials on the NASA web site including videos, lectures, podcasts and an image library that's out of this world
ESA has multilingual educational material both on-line and in books/cd-roms.
Secondary Links at the Open Educational Resources web site
Periodic Videos have produced short videos about each of the chemical elements
Over 2000 high-school & college level video tutorials from the Khan Academy. These are also available via a dedicated bitTorrent app.

Advanced

'Leading edge' information most of which is university level and most of which is presented by the people making the discoveries.

Many universities have contributed individual lectures and full courses to Archive.org
Teaching Resources from CERN
Post-secondary education on the NASA web site
ESA has multilingual educational material both on-line and in books/cd-roms. It has also made available Technical Documents and Data Sets
Royal Society TV archive of webcasts
The Steeple archive of higher education podcasts from Cambridge, Oxford and the Open University
Free lecture notes, exams, and videos from MIT
Videos of significant public events at MIT including many lectures
Post-secondary links at the Open Educational Resources web site
Links to free online courses from top universities from OpenCulture
Free learning resources from The Open University
Academi Earth has thousands of video lectures from the world's top scholars
Links to free courses, textbooks and course materials
Video Lectures given at the TED conference
Reith Lectures are transmitted annually by the BBC and were started to advance public understanding of significant issues of the day through high-profile speakers. Many of these can also be downloaded as MP3's
YouTube Channels

Computing

The Computer & Technology films at Archive.org
The Computer & Technology audio recordings (Radio Programs, lectures, conferences, etc) at Archive.org
Computing lectures at Archive.org
Computing Education Links at the Open Educational Resources web site
Computer Science lectures at Academi Earth
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT
DIY Computer Science Free, Self Paced, Online Courses

Repositories

The Moving Image Archive at Archive.org allows many educational films to be downloaded
Over a million e-texts at Archive.org
BBC archive sorted by theme
Directory of Open Access Journals
The Open Science Directory is a huge directory of online technical journals many of which can be accessed for free
The Royal Society

Access to their online archive is now free and, for some journals, goes back almost 350 years
- Philosophical Transactions B (Biological Sciences)
- Proceedings B (flagship biological research journal)
- Biology Letters (Short, highly-innovative, cutting-edge research articles and opinion pieces)
- Open Biology (Biology at the molecular and cellular level)
- Philosophical Transactions A (Devoted to a specific area of the mathematical, physical and engineering sciences)
- Proceedings A (Research articles across the mathematical, physical and engineering sciences)
- Interface (Cross-disciplinary research at the interface between the physical and life sciences)
- Interface Focus (Themed issues covering cross-disciplinary research at the interface between the physical and life sciences)
- Notes and Records (Original research in the history of science, technology and medicine)
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America issues older than 6 months are free on-line
Public Library of Science is a non-profit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a freely available public resource.
Open access to over half a million e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance and Statistics
National (USA) Academies Press books can be downloaded for free
Global Text Project open content electronic textbooks
Wikibooks the open-content textbooks collection that anyone can edit
Medical and Life Sciences
- MEDLINE allows you to search the abstracts of medical journals
- PMC (PubMed Central) free full-text archive of over 2 million peer-reviewed articles in biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine. Also available PMC Canada and UK PMC which allows the searching of 25 million abstracts.
- Wellcome Trust's Library is mostly medical related. Extra services are available after free registration

Misc

Wikipedia in an ever growing Open Source encyclopedia
Search the text in books from Google
Search scholarly literature from Google
Video Search from Google (include words like: Documentary, Science, Lecture, Computing, etc)
Bad Science how and where good science is turned bad.

Free Books

OK, not books, not paper, but the words that make up the books can be got from the internet for free. Best of all - the words are in the right order! Due to the magnanimous efforts of various kind folks typing up these books, they are now available for you to download for FREE! They're called e-texts or e-books.