This is a list of online education platforms such as open source, online university, and proprietary platforms.
Free or open-source platforms and resources
- Academic Earth
- Alison
- Bookboon
- Boundless
- CK-12 Foundation – customizable digital textbooks and learning resources (FlexBook)
- Code.org
- Codecademy
- CodeSandbox – web-based integrated development environment for computer programming
- Codewars – competitive programming challenges in an online IDE
- Comparison of chatbots – ChatGPT, DeepSeek, Google Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, Perplexity AI.
- Comparison of online source code playgrounds – JDoodle, Replit, CodePen, JSFiddle, W3Schools
- Curriki
- Desmos – graphing calculator
- diagrams.net – software for diagrams such as flowcharts, wireframes, UML, organizational charts, and network diagrams.
- Discourse – Internet forum for open-source software and online community projects for long-form discussion and learning.
- Eliademy
- EarSketch – musical programming using Python and JavaScript as an audio programming language
- Firebase Studio – online integrated development environment (IDE) developed by Google
- FreeCodeCamp
- GeeksforGeeks
- GeoGebra – interactive geometry, algebra, statistics and calculus web-app.
- GitHub Codespaces – online IDE for computer programming
- Google Colab – Jupyter notebook for Python programming, machine learning, data science, and educational technology.
- GNU Octave – open-source alternative to MATLAB for computational mathematics
- Google Scholar
- H5P – framework for creating, sharing, and reusing interactive HTML5 content
- Hyperskill – online platform by JetBrains for computer programming in Python, Java, Kotlin, JavaScript, Go, C++, and SQL
- Internet Archive
- Jupyter Notebook – web-based interactive computational notebook environment
- Kaggle – data science competition platform, free courses and tutorials, and Jupyter Notebook
- KaTeX.org
- Khan Academy
- LibreTexts
- Markdown editors – CoCalc, TiddlyWiki, Gollum, and Wiki.js.
- MathOverflow – mathematics Q&A website
- MDN Web Docs – documentation repository and learning resource for web developers
- Medscape
- MERLOT
- MIT App Inventor – high-level block-based visual programming language to create computer applications for Android and iOS
- Mozilla Developer Network
- NCBI Bookshelf
- OER Commons
- Open access journals
- Open Course Library
- openHPI – MOOC in the field of computer science and information technology
- OpenLearn
- openPlaG – web-app function graph plotter
- openSAP
- p5.js – creative coding digital art
- PhET Interactive Simulations
- PhysicsOverflow – physics Q&A website
- Project Euler
- Project Gutenberg
- Sci-Hub – platform that provides access to academic papers
- Saylor Academy
- Stack Overflow – Q&A website for computer programmers
- SWAYAM
- Tanagra (machine learning) – data mining software developed for research and teaching
- TeX editors – Authorea, CoCalc, and Overleaf
- Tinkercad – 3D modeling
- Tinkercad Circuits – electronic circuit simulator that supports Arduino Uno microcontrollers, Micro Bit (Micro:bit) boards, or ATtiny chips
- W3Schools – freemium educational website for learning computer programming online
- Wikibooks
- WikiEducator
- Wikipedia Sandbox – sandbox to learn Wikitext and computational writing making tables, graphs, LaTeX, math and chemistry notation.
- Wikiversity
- Wolfram MathWorld and WolframAlpha
- YouTube EDU[1][2][3]
University-based resources
- MIT OpenCourseWare
- OpenStax - Rice University open licensed textbooks
- Open.Michigan
- Open Universities Australia
- Open Yale Courses
- Stanford Online
- University of London Worldwide[4]
Proprietary platforms
See also
- Computer-based mathematics education
- Competitive programming online platforms
- Comparison of e-readers – Comparison of Android e-reader software and Comparison of iOS e-reader software
- Google Books, Apple Books, Kindle Store, Kobo Books, Nook, Scribd, Audible, Project Gutenberg, Internet Archive, Bookmate.
- List of learning management systems – Moodle, Blackboard Learn, Sakai, Google Classroom, and GitHub Classroom
- List of digital library projects
- List of educational software
- List of free educational software
- List of homeschooling software
References
- Ula Lechtenberg. Guides: OER: Open Educational Resources: Finding OER -- The Big List pitt.libguides.com^
- List of Open Educational Resources and Repositories RisePoint Faculty, retrieved 8 February 2026^
- Katrina Salley. Transy Library: OER: Open Educational Resources: Big List of Resources