Free Resources to Help with Remote Learning in 2022
Omni Calculator is continuing to make its 2,095 (and growing) calculators available free. Each one is targeted to help students and others handle any type of equation or conversion imaginable. https://www.omnicalculator.com/
OnScale, which produces a cloud-based engineering simulation platform, is offering free private accounts with 10 free cloud core-hours per month. Registration required. https://onscale.com/.
The Open Textbook Library offers access to hundreds of openly licensed textbooks, which can be downloaded for free or printed at a low cost. Subjects include accounting and finance, business, computer science, education, math, national sciences, social sciences and student success, among others. The compilation is maintained by the nonprofit Center for Open Education in the University of Minnesota's College of Education and Human Development. https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks
OpenDyslexic is an open source font developed to increase readability for readers with dyslexia. The free extension overrides fonts on a web page with its own font and formats to make them more readable. There's an extension for Chrome users. https://opendyslexic.org/
OpenStax continues making its open source digital textbooks in core college and Advanced Placement subjects freely available. The collection grows year by year. And now the nonprofit offers digital tutoring for a number of its textbook subjects. https://openstax.org/
Panopto makes Panopto Express free for quick, online screen and video recording. Recordings can be automatically uploaded to YouTube or Google Classroom. https://www.panopto.com/record/
Pantone is offering free access to Pantone Connect through the Adobe Exchange. The tool enables designers and artists to build and share color palettes, convert and cross-reference colors and match Pantone colors through Adobe Creative Cloud. https://exchange.adobe.com/creativecloud.details.103029.html
PBS produces "PBS American Portrait," an initiative that invites Americans to share stories from their lives, about their families and communities, their joys, struggles and triumphs. Instructors are teaching students about storytelling and personal narratives while also allowing them to speak to their mental and emotional well-being, by answering prompts posed on the site, such as, "I never expected ..." and "What gets me out of bed in the morning ...." https://www.pbs.org/american-portrait/
PBS LearningMedia offers a "Ken Burns in the Classroom" hub, making this filmmaker's series available in its entirety. Titles include The Civil War, Jazz, The War and The Dust Bowl and others. https://www.pbslearningmedia.org/collection/kenburnsclassroom/home/
Pearson's Channels is a curated library of educational videos with an emphasis on science, math, and business, which provides supplementary tutorial content for its Pearson+ e-textbook subscription service. The videos are available to all college students for free, even if they aren't using a Pearson textbook. https://www.pearson.com/channels