Education Without Borders

SEEDS strives to flatten the hurdles of access for the less privileged among us. Education without Borders initiative attempts to curate and make accessible open-source ed-content that is hoped to be of value to the youngsters and adults in our society.
All this material is made accessible to the learner without any need for the Internet and we have a system to make it possible. Those who are interested to have one on their campus, village, or town, please contact us. The system can operate locally in a village library or a large school environment. (However, if there is some internet access, it gives provide another degree of freedom to continuously upgrade the system and the content.)
To give a feel for what you can find, we have hosted part of this content on a web server and you may try these out:

SEEDS

SEEDS Odia Language

Following SEEDS curated edu-content is acknowledged as sourced from odia.org:

Block Games

Block Games

Google Block Games

TED Talks

TED Talks

TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) is an invitation-only event where the world’s leading thinkers and doers gather to find inspiration.
This collection includes nearly 2000 short videos on thought-provoking topics from several years worth of events around the world.

Arvind

Toys from Trash

Collection of Hindi videos. Create toys from household items.

SEEDS

Open Access Odia Books

All SEEDS OAOB is a not-for-profit project, initiated by National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, Srujanika, Bhubaneswar and Pragati Utkal Sangh, Rourkela. It disseminates the available information in Odia language treasured in our local libraries and individual collections. The project is made available online to millions of readers worldwide. An open-access repository containing resources pertaining to Odia literature and culture, OAOB provides free access to researchers, scholars, historians, librarians, and the general public at all points in time.

Great Books of the World

Great Books of the World

A searchable, categorized selection of over 400 of the most beloved and respected books from around the world, collected from Project Gutenberg.

Meet Edison

Edison – Fun Robotics for Tomorrow’s Inventors

The super-affordable robot for learning and inventing. Edison is Lego compatible, easy to program, and has built-in programs that are activated by driving over barcodes.

The Edison robot is an innovation from Microbric, an Australian company based in South Australia. Microbric has been providing educational products to schools since 2004. The materials references were not changed in any way and are released under the license, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0). More information is available at https://meetedison.com.

Hesperian

Hesperian Health Guides

Easy to understand, practical, accurate, and heavily illustrated guides on health topics for remote areas where access to medical personnel and facilities is limited.

These materials do not provide medical advice and are for informational purposes only. This content is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek the advice of a qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition. Never disregard professional medical advice or delay in seeking it because of something you have read here.

GCF LearnFree.org

GCF LearnFree.org

Hundreds of high-quality illustrated articles and videos focusing on technology, job training, reading, and math skills, produced by the Goodwill Community Foundation.

UNESCO's IICBA Electronic Library

UNESCO’s IICBA Electronic Library

Teachers’ resources from the UNESCO International Institute for Capacity Building in Africa.

Math Expression

Math Expression

Math tutoring materials that include Math videos, Study Tips, Practice Questions, and Step-by-Step solutions.
For each lesson, read the study tips carefully and take note of the important concepts/ideas before watching the video. These tips will guide you in your math thinking strategies.

MedlinePlus

MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia

More than 4,000 cross-referenced medical articles from the U.S. National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health. Includes comprehensive illustrations and photographs.

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These materials do not provide medical advice and are for informational purposes only. This content is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek the advice of a qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition. Never disregard professional medical advice or delay in seeking it because of something you have read here.

Music Theory

Music Theory

Comprehensive music theory lessons and exercises to begin your journey into the realm of music.

OLPC Educational Packages

OLPC Educational Packages

A collection of educational materials consolidated by the OLPC project.

PhET (Older)

PhET(Older)

PhET Interactive Simulations, a project at the University of Colorado Boulder, is a nonprofit open educational resource (OER) project founded in 2002 by Nobel Laureate Carl Wieman. PhET began with Wiemans vision to improve the way science is taught and learned. Their stated mission is “To advance science and math literacy and education worldwide through free interactive simulations.”

PhET

PhET

PhET Interactive Simulations, a project at the University of Colorado Boulder, is a non-profit[1] open educational resource (OER) project founded in 2002 by Nobel Laureate Carl Wieman. PhET began with Wieman’s vision to improve the way science is taught and learned. Their stated mission is “To advance science and math literacy and education worldwide through free interactive simulations.”

Powertyping

Powertyping

Full lessons and exercises to learn touch typing or improve your typing skills. Include many entertaining typing games, tests, and practice drills.

Practical Action

Practical Action

Practical Action has been using appropriate technology to help people in the developing world for more than four decades. The focus is on helping local people do what they already do even better. Here you will find a broad knowledge bank of technologies that you can replicate.

Radiolab

Radiolab

Radiolab is an audio show about curiosity. Where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur between science, philosophy, and human experience.
Radiolab is produced by WNYC, a public radio station in New York City.

Scale of the Universe

Scale of the Universe

Explore the universe from the fantastically small to the awesomely large with this interactive demonstration of the size of things.
This module requires Flash or a Flash-capable browser like Chrome.

CK-12 Textbooks

CK-12 Textbooks

High quality textbooks on STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) from ck12.org.

MIT Scratch

MIT Scratch

Scratch is a programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art.
As young people create and share Scratch projects, they learn important mathematical and computational ideas, while also learning to think creatively, reason systematically, and work collaboratively. Scratch is designed especially for ages 8 to 16 but is used by people of all ages.

Wikipedia

Wikipedia for Schools

This curated selection of articles from Wikipedia can be used offline by schoolchildren around the world. 6000 articles, 26 million words, and 50,000 images make Wikipedia for Schools bigger than Harry Potter, the Lord of the Rings and the Chronicles of Narnia put together!

     

    Contact author:Darshan Patra