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Open Access E- Learning Resources: Free and Downloadable

E- Learning resources have been categorized as per type of content. Click on the titles below to access the respective e- learning resources:

(A) E-Learning Courses Platforms:

1. SWAYAM : SWAYAM is a programme initiated by Government of India. Courses delivered through SWAYAM are available free of cost to the learners, however learners wanting a SWAYAM certificate should register for the final proctored exams that come at a fee and attend in-person at designated centres on specified dates.

2. UGC MOOCs: UGC Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are free online courses available for anyone to enroll. MOOCs provide an affordable and flexible way to learn new skills, advance your career and deliver quality educational experiences at scale.

3. NPTEL: (National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning) A Project funded by the MHRD, Govt. of India

4. Coursera: Build skills with courses, certificates, and degrees online from world-class universities and companies

5. edX: Access 2500+ Online Courses from 140 Institutions – internationally reputed and recognised.

6. FutureLearn: Get access to high quality learning wherever you are, with online courses, programs and degrees created by leading universities, business schools and specialist organisations.

7. Udemy: The world’s largest selection of courses, choose from over 100,000 online video courses with new additions published every month

8. Unacademy: Enroll in courses and watch lessons from India’s best educators, on India’s largest learning platform

(B) E-Content (Videos, Tutorials, Interactive Content):

1. e-PG Pathshala: A Gateway to all UG & PG Courses – High quality, curriculum-based, interactive content in different subjects across all disciplines

2. e-Pathshala of NCERT: Access digital textbooks and e-Resources useful for Std. XI and Std.XII

3. Vidya-Mitra: Integrated E-Content Portal : E--Text, Videos, e-Tutorials for UG & PG Students

4. SWAYAM-PRABHA- Free DTH Channels for Education: Project of MHRD-Govt. of India & INFLIBNET : 32 DTH Channels telecasting of high-quality educational programmes on 24X7 basis

5. CEC-UGC Edusat: A YouTube Channelof The Consortium for Educational Communication popularly known as CEC is one of the Inter University Centres set up by the University Grants Commission of India.

(C) Digital Library :

​1. National Digital Library of India (NDLI) : 64,651,364 learning resources such as Books, Audio Books/Lectures, Video lectures, Lecture Presentations/Notes, Simulations, Question Papers, Solutions are available

2. Internet Archive : It is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more. (20 million books, 4.5 million audio recordings, 4 million videos, and much more)

3. eShodhSindhu -:Research material, educational course material as a support for students, research scholars and academics and to support educational institutions during this challenging time of COVID-19.

4. National Science Digital Library (Developed by CSIR-NISCAIR)

5. LoyalBooks – Free Public Domain Audiobooks & eBook Downloads

(D) Electronic Theses and Dissertations Repositories

1. Shodhganga – Indian ETD Repository @ INFLIBNET – 2,90,000 + Ph.D. Theses deposited by Research Scholars from Universities across India

2. ShodhGangotri – Repository of Indian Research – Repository of more than 7,600 Synopses / Research Proposals for Ph.D. Programmes

3. ETD of Indian Institute of Science – Digital repository of Theses and Dissertations of Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.

4. Open Access Theses and Dissertations – 5,091,822 Open access theses and dissertations published around the world.

5. Ethos: E-Theses Online Service from British Library, provides search to over 500,000 doctoral theses. Download instantly for your research.

6. OpenThesis: A free repository of theses, dissertations, and other academic documents, coupled with powerful search, organization, and collaboration tools.

7. DART-Europe E-Theses Portal: Access to 828,729 open access research Theses from 619 Universities in 28 European countries

8. EBSCO Open Dissertations: A collaboration between EBSCO and BiblioLabs that brings an innovative approach to increasing traffic and discoverability of ETD research and making searching thousands of open dissertations possible.

(E) Open Access Knowledge & Institutional Repositories:

1. World Bank Open Knowledge Repository– The World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (OKR) is The World Bank’s official open access repository for its research outputs and knowledge products. (30,073 publications available)

2. Social Science Open Access Repository (SSOAR): database of 56,980 full texts and steadily growing holdings of freely available, full-text social science documents.

3. Indian Academy of Sciences Fellows Publications – Open Access Repository of publications of Fellows of the Indian Academy of Sciences