Free Education Resources
We have curated some of the best FREE educational resources currently available.
AI Robotics
Robotics classes for all ages
Age: Primary, Secondary
Category: Innovation
Offering: Free
Audible
Audio books in six languages: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Mandarin.
Age: All ages
Category: Literacy
Offering: For as long as schools are closed, we're open. Starting today, kids everywhere can instantly stream an incredible collection of stories, including titles across six different languages, that will help them continue dreaming, learning, and just being kids
Barefoot Computing
Computational thinking workshops, online guides and lesson to support teachers, parents and carers.
Age: Primary
Category: Computing
Offering: Free
Be Online HP
Free resources, training and support in using Google Classroom and Microsoft Teams.
Age: Teachers
Category: Multiple
Offering: Free
Beedle
An extension to Microsoft Teams which helps you plan, collaborate on and deliver lesson resources.
Age: Teachers
Category: Multiple
Offering: Free
BESA
List of trusted resources from BESA members and teacher reviews.
Age: All ages
Category: Multiple
Offering: Offer dependent on provider
Best Practice Network
Resources and modules to help teacher CPD.
Age: Teachers
Category: Skills
Offering: Free resources
Clarion
Free cloud phone system to divert calls to mobiles/softphones plus video conferencing capability.
Age: Teachers/Faculty
Category: IT/Management
Offering: Free in the UK during school closures
Class Central
A list of MOOC provision (Massive Open Online Courses) provided by Universities around the world.
Age: Post 16
Category: Multiple
Offering: Free at all times
Classroom Secrets
Downloadable activity materials for children and parents to use at home and an interactive weekly timetable with activities and ideas
Age: Parents and teachers
Category: Multiple
Offering: Free
Classroom Secrets Kids
A large range of interactive activites to help young students engage with learning
Age: Primary
Category: Multiple
Offering: Free
Code
Learn computer science when schools are closed.
Age: All ages
Category: Computing
Offering: Free for all at all times
Coding Park
Coding Park is a game-based learning platform that helps children understand computational thinking.
Age: Primary
Category: Innovation
Offering: Free online workshops with integrated videoconferencing: https://app.codingpark.io/goldenquest
Cybersmile
Cybersmile have announced a full curriculum of free-to-access digital education and 24/7 support resources for people of all ages being affected by the coronavirus, including those self-isolating and in quarantine.
Age: All ages
Category: Multiple
Offering: Free whilst schools are closed
DDMIX
10 minute shake up after lunch at 1.30pm on Facebook LIVE every day! Keep your kids active and energised during these difficult times.
Age: Primary, Secondary
Category: Wellbeing
Offering: Free
Duolingo
Learn a language for free. Multiple levels, multiple languages all online or on on the app.
Age: All ages
Category: MFL
Offering: Free for all at all times
Dyslexia Codebreakers
A platform desgined support learners with dyslexia
Age: Primary, Secondary, Higher Education
Category: SEND and inclusion
Offering: Free
EdTech Impact
Database of free resources with reviews and case studies to evaluate impact.
Age: Parents and Teachers
Category: All
Offering: Free at all times
Educational App Store
A collective list of apps that are great for learning at home
Age: Primary, Secondary
Category: Multiple
Offering: Free
Emile Education
Award-winning app and online programme covering UK national curriculum.
Age: 4-12
Category: SPaG & Phonics
Offering: Free access for any school affected by current closures
EtonX
Online self-study courses on CV writing, creative problem solving, interview skills, making an impact, resilience, research & writing.
Age: 16-19
Category: Skills
Offering: Free access to state school pupils in the UK
F1 in Schools
Free STEM resources to schools to enable students to study effectively at home during these times of lockdown and school closures
Age: Primary, Secondary
Category: Innovation
Offering: Free
Flipgrid
Social learning for PreK to PhD learners and beyond.
Age: All ages
Category: Oracy
Offering: Flipgrid is 100% free for all educators, learners and families. Engage and empower every voice in your classroom or at home by recording and sharing short videos together.
Follett eLearning Resources
An eLearning platform housing more than 4000 eBooks and interactive books.
Age: All ages
Category: Multiple
Offering: Free until June 30, 2020
Geointeractiva
An educational app to create, edit and share interactive maps. Customize your maps with multimedia markers (files, photos, videos and audios), statistic maps and games, and share them with your partners or student classroom friends & teachers through the app.
Age: Primary, Secondary, Higher Education
Category: Skills
Offering: Free until July
Gruffalo
Popular children's character is showing social distancing and encouraging young people to do the same.
Age: Early Years
Category: Skills
Hays Education
15 minute courses for teachers to keep them connected and engaged and extend their CPD.
Age: All ages
Category: School management
Offering: Free wellbeing package for teachers
Humanitarian Leadership Academy
Kaya is a global learning platform that offers accessible, high quality and contextually relevant learning opportunities for the humanitarian sector
Age: Primary, Secondary
Category: Skills
Offering: Free
HyperTalk Education
Aimed to help teachers with keeping the learning process ongoing and interactively deliver value-added educational content from a distance
Age: Higher Education
Category: Empowering Teaching and Learning
Offering: Free
I Train Asia
Coding and science kids for K-12 learners.
Age: Primary and Secondary
Category: Innovation
Offering: Free trial available
iTrainKids
From coding apps and websites to developing exciting games and creating fun experiments, iTrainKids offers the most creative hands-on ways for children to learn all about science and technology.
Age: Primary, Secondary
Category: Innovation and Skills
Offering: iTrainKids are offering free hour-of-code sessions every weekend to provide an opportunity for children to kickstart their coding journey by learning how to build popular 2D games in a span of one hour.
iTrain Kids
Offering specialised technology workshops for children.
Age: 7-17
Category: STEAM Education
Offering: Free
Interactive guide on Inclusive Math
Microsoft OneNote includes all kinds of tools that can help all kinds of learners, whether its used on a desktop, tablet or on the web.
Age: Multiple
Category: Multiple
Offering: Free interactive guide on how to use features, enabling and empowering students to learn math at their own pace.
JTRS
Remote learning tools to support teachers and students regardless of circumstances
Age: All ages
Category: Empowering Teaching and Learning
Offering: Free
Jumo Games
Game based learning to help student engagement
Age: Primary and Secondary
Category: Innovation
Offering: Free games: https://apps.apple.com/tr/app/jumo-the-jumper-learn-english/id1476151202 and https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ProjeparkGames.JumoTheJumperEnglish
Kognity
Kognity has combined pedagogy and technology to take students’ learning to the next level
Age: Teachers and Students
Category: Empowering Teaching and Learning
Offering: Free blogs and articles
LingoZING!
A digital comic book app which helps children to learn a new language.
Age: Secondary School
Category: Language
Offering: Free access for duration of school closures
Makecode
Hands on computing education.
Age: All ages
Category: Computing
Offering: Microsoft MakeCode brings computer science to life for all students with fun projectcs, immediate results, and both block and text editors for learners at different levels
Maths No Problems
Resources to support parents and keep the maths momentum.
Age: Teachers and parents
Category: Numeracy
Offering: Free parent resource page to be launched
MEC - Check-in with students: Emotions, wellbeing and remote learning
The Microsoft Education Team have provided some resources to support your ongoing dedication to meeting the needs of your students wellbeing during remote learning.
Age: Educators and parents
Category: Wellbeing
Offering: Free resources to assist with maintaining consistent communication between you and your students. Regular check-ins can help students process their feelings and improve their sense of belonging, wellbeing, and engagement in learning
Microsoft
Resources to that help schools, educators, students, and families to make the transition to remote learning
Age: All Ages
Category: Multiple
Offering: Access to tutorials, how-to guides, support and top tips from the Microsoft education community
Microsoft Education: Microsoft Teams For Virtual Learning & Work
Resources/links to support your educational community during these unprecedented times.
Age: All Ages
Category: Multiple
Offering: Free training, to help staff enhance the quality of their students virtual learning.
Microsoft - Interative Guide On Inclusive Math
Microsoft OneNote includes all kinds of tools that can help all kinds of learners, whether it is used on a desktop, tablet or on the web.
Age: Primary, Secondary
Category: Multiple
Offering: Free interactive guide on how to use features, enabling and empowering students to learn math at their own pace.
Microsoft - Interactive Guide On Inclusive Reading
Microsoft OneNote includes all kinds of tools that can help all kinds of learners, whether it is used on a desktop, tablet or on the web.
Age: Primary, Secondary
Category: Multiple
Offering: Free interactive guide on how to use features, enabling and empowering students to develop reading at their own pace.
Microsoft - Interative Guide On Inclusive Writing
Microsoft OneNote includes all kinds of tools that can help all kinds of learners, whether it is used on a desktop, tablet or on the web.
Age: Primary, Secondary
Category: Multiple
Offering: Free interactive guide on how to use features, enabling and empowering students to develop writing at their own pace.
Microsoft PowerPoint For The Modern Classroom
If your knowledge of PowerPoint is rooted in the year 2010, then check out all the modern updates like Designer, Morph, Presenter Coach, Collaboration, 3D, Dictation, Streams, Forms, Zoom and Captions/Translations!
Age: All Ages
Category: Multiple
Offering: Free tips and tricks to help you communicate more effectively.
Microsoft Teams EDU Quick Start guide
New to Microsoft Teams for Education? Use this guide to learn the basics.
Age: Primary, Secondary, Higher Education
Category: IT/Management
Offering: Learn how to make the most of Microsoft Edu with this step-by-step PDF guide
Mind your footprint
Engage your children with the world around them through interactive learning tools
Age: All ages
Category: Skills
Offering: Free activity book
Musitude
Interactive music learning system
Age: All ages
Category: Innovation
Offering: Free
NatWest MoneySense
NatWest MoneySense is a free financial education programme for teachers, students and parents.
Age: 5-18
Category: Skills
Offering: Free to all
Near Pod
Near Pod are granting temporary free licenses to keep classes going and students engaged.
Age: All ages
Category: Empowering Teaching and Learning
Offering: Free
NetSupport Manager
Helping schools worldwide, award-winning classroom management solution, NetSupport School provides teachers with dedicated assessment, monitoring, collaboration and control features to leverage the full value of technology-led teaching and learning using best practice.
Age: Teachers
Category: IT/Management
Offering: Free use of NetSupport Manager allowing school IT teams to quickly respond to issues across multiple sites in any geographical location
OECD
Collection of insights and resources
Age: Primary, Secondary, HE
Category: Multiple
Offering: Free
Omniway
Onniway is a tool to holistic health & wellbeing.
Age: All ages
Category: wellbeing
Offering: Free during school closures
One Team Logic
Safe and secure software for recording and managing all safeguarding concerns in any educational setting.
Age: Teachers/DSL
Category: Safeguarding
Offering: Free whilst schools are closed
Optimus Education
Awards, events, training and resources to support staff and improve pupil outcomes.
Age: All ages
Category: School management
Offering: The free resources will cover primary curriculum homework projects, in-house CPD training courses, career workbooks, and parental engagement frameworks
Peaqs
A simulation to allow ideas, products and services created by students to be shared on a virtual stock market.
Age: Higher Education
Category: Innovation
Offering: Free for one semester
Pearson
Free access to various products from the Pearson stable.
Age: All ages
Category: Multiple
Offering: Free whilst schools are closed
Positive Physics
A postive learning platform dedicated to the teaching and learning of physics
Age: Primary, Secondary
Category: Skills
Offering: Free
Purple Mash
Purple Mash contains thousands of opportunities for learning for primary age children.
Age: 4-11
Category: Multiple
Offering: Free access to Purple Mash and Serial Mash for the duration that schools are closed. For schools and parents
Radio Blogging
Interactive radio shows bought to you by top educators
Age: All ages
Category: Empowering Teaching and Learning
Offering: Free
Remote Learning Now Podcast
Regular podcast from educators talking about the move to remote learning
Age: Teachers
Category: Leadership
Offering: Free at all times
ResearchEd
A series of informative webinars to discuss key challenges facing the education sector.
Age: Teachers
Category: Multiple
Offering: Free
Robo Think
E-STEAM programs, focusing on teaching Entrepreneurial, Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Mathematical skills are now available online
Age: All ages
Category: Innovation
Offering: Free
Scholastic
Learn at home free resources for school closures.
Age: 4-16
Category: Multiple
Offering: Free during school closures.
ScreenBeam
With ScreenBeam wireless display technology, schools can easily set up a safer classroom without compromising the interactivity and collaboration for educator and students. Through integrating Microsoft Teams, OneNote, and Whiteboard, remote collaboration can be easily achieved!
Age: All ages
Category: Hardware
Offering: Free trail for your classroom
Sir Linkalot
Learn spelling using quick memorable animations and quizzes. Perfect bitesize boosts for school spelling tests.
Age: 7-12
Category: SPAG
Offering: Free during school closures. Email through the link on their website for a code
SMART
Free access to SMART Learning Suite Online to all schools affected by current closures.
Age: All ages
Category: Multiple
Offering: Free whilst schools are closed
Smart Reader
Free literacy resources.
Age: All ages
Category: Literacy
Offering: Free literacy resources worldwide
Teacher Development Trust
A free webinar series to allow remote networking and talk about the latest education news
Age: Teachers
Category: CPD
Offering: Free
Teacherly
A remote teaching tool with inbuilt Teachely VC features.
Age: Teacher/Head of Department
Category: IT/Management
Offering: Free for 30 days
Tell Me School
An online learning platform to aid school, student and parent commuications
Age: Primary, Secondary
Category: Empowering Teaching and Learning
Twing
Twing consists of interdisciplinary courses which provide the kids with the scientific knowledge of the projects they applied and fun challenges which sparks their creativity. Using patterns of the children from their digital journey, Twin offers customized learning path for each child.
Age: Primary and Secondary
Category: Innovation
Offering: Free
Twinkl
Free resource pack, specifically tailored to support children with different special needs
Age: Early Years
Category: SEND and Inclusion
Offering: Free access to all
Virtual Field Trips
Visit the world from your front room.
Age: All ages
Category: Multiple
Offering: Free for all at all times
Yale
The Science of Wellbeing AKA Yale's Happiness Course.
Age: All ages
Category: wellbeing
Offering: Free access to all
ZigZag Education
Activities to help motivate students with varied revision activities
Age: 14-16
Category: Multiple
Offering: Any 4 eLearning packages for free to schools until 1st January 2021
