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121 Tools for Distance Learning & Strategies for Student Engagement By Albert Resources
Most of these sites are free or subscriptions can be bypassed by having or getting a e-library card online.
LECTURES/UNIVERSITIES
Free and educational media on the web. Take online courses from the world’s top universities for free. Below, you will find 1,500 online courses from universities like Stanford, Yale, MIT, Harvard, Oxford and more. You can use this collection of online courses to learn everything you want–from history, philosophy and literature, to physics, biology, psychology, and computer science.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY (FREE)
YALE UNIVERSITY (FREE)
Tons of free classes from leading universities and companies https://www.coursera.org/
From the website “Whether your goal is to earn a promotion, graduate at the top of your class, or just accelerate your life, lectures can help get you there. Our archives of lectures cover a huge range of topics and have all been handpicked and carefully designed by experienced instructors throughout the world who are dedicated to helping you take the next step toward meeting your career goals. Lifelong learns can turn their free time turn into self-improvement time.”
THE GREAT COURSES (PAID SITE/ONE MONTH FREE)
LEARNING SITES
Here are 450 Ivy League courses you can take online right now for free
60 Best Free Online Courses For Whatever You Want to Learn
Future Learn Education and Lectures
Digital archive of history https://www.bunkhistory.org/
Online history classes for all ages preteen through adults https://school.bighistoryproject.com/bhplive
35,000 pages of online content on the cultures and countries of the world. https://www.countryreports.org/
LANGUAGES
Resources for Spanish practice https://www.difusion.com/campus/
Foreign languages https://www.duolingo.com/
MANGO https://mangolanguages.com
GARDENS
Claude Monet’s Garden, Giverny, France
Waddesdon Manor, Waddesdon, England
Chicago Botanic Garden, Chicago IL
Hawaii Tropical Botanical Garden, Papaikou, HI
Kew Gardens, Richmond, England
ONLINE LIBRARIES
Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.
Local Library E-Cards
Local Libraries are providing a wide array of digital offerings, including e-books, educational materials and websites, audiobooks, magazines, and streaming movies . Simply log on to a site and sign in for an e-card to access these many resources for free. Here are three examples. Check your local library for more information.
VIRTUAL MUSEUMS
Below are a few museums that have virtual experiences online. Many were taken from Google Arts which has hundreds of museums and galleries digitized for a virtual experience:
Google Arts contains hundreds of museums and galleries across the world that worked have worked with Google to digitize some of their art collections.
The Acropolis take a virtual tour.
Natural History Museum, New York
American Museum of Natural History,: Windows of Nature, New York City
Highlights from the American Museum of Natural History
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
High Museum of Art, Atlanta Photos from the Civil Rights Movement
Museum of Fine Arts: Fashion Photography Exhibit, Boston
Museum of Fine Arts Boston Conservation in Action: Preserving Fans at the MFA Boston
Art Institute of Chicago Google Arts
Asian Art Museum in San Francisco
Paris Street; Rainy Day , Chicago Gustave Caillebotte1877
Detroit Institute of the Arts Frida Kahlo Exhibit
The Broad: Infinite Drone | Geneva Skeen, The Oval Window (2018)
The Museum of Islamic Art, Qatar
LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art)
MOCA (Museum of Contemporary Art)
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
East Harlem, El Museo del Barrio
Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Georgia O’Keeffe Museum | Watercolor painting
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Space City Exhibit
BauHaus Building the new Artist
British Museum, London
Getty Exhibit: Eat, Drink and be Merry Food in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
Getty Exhibit: Heaven, Hell, and Dying Well Images of Death in the Middle Ages
The White House, Washington D.C.
Rembrandt in Southern California
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C.
Walter’s Art Museum Baltimore
Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience in Seattle
The Yale Center for British Art
Tate Modern, London
The Louvre, Paris
Musée d’Orsay, Paris
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
MUSICAL EDUCATION
Learn to Play the Guitar