150 Amazing and Free Resources for ELearning

ELearning Courses development requires time and money, but there are dozens of free resources developed to minimize your efforts and create efficient and well-designed eLearning courses. Based on our experience in the eLearning, marketing and management fields we compiled a list of useful tools and online resources to use in eLearning courses design and development.

ELearning Courses development requires time and money, but there are dozens of free resources developed to minimize your efforts and create efficient and well-designed eLearning courses. Based on our experience in the eLearning, marketing and management fields we compiled a list of useful tools and online resources to use in eLearning courses design and development.

ELearning specialists frequently work remotely and know the value of time like no one else. For those who tear between unfinished projects and impatient clients there are free online tools for time management:

1. Cold Turkey to block social media websites and games while you are working.
2. FocalFilter to set a block timer for distracting websites.
3. Isolator to cover up the desktop and all the icons so you can concentrate on what you are doing.
4. KeepMeOut to embed into a browser and set time limit on specific website visit.
5. SelfControl to avoid distracting websites and mail services.
6. StayFocused Chrome Extension to specify limit for a website visit.
7. Stop Procrastinating to cut online distractions.
8. Timeout to take regular breaks to avoid eye strain from staring at a computer.
9. TomatoTimer time-management tool to take short breaks while working and log distractions according to priority.

When there are too many things on the agenda and time presses, take advantage of free online services and tools for productivity and self-organization.

10. Evernote to keep all your ideas and notes in one place.
11. Markticle to leave bookmarks in articles to return to reading later.
12. Meeting Burner – free webinar hosting (up to 10 attendees)
13. Mind42 to create mind maps for your ideas organization.
14. MinMup – to create mind maps and send them directly to Google Drive.
15. Pocket to save files and webpages for future reference.
16. Remember The Milk to manage tasks.
17. Trello to manage projects with drag and drops cards and lists.
18. Universal Password Manager to keep all your passwords safe.
19. Wetransfer to send files up to 10 GB.
20. Wunderlist – to create to-do lists.
21. Zamzar – a file converter.

22. Bitcasa
23. Copy.com
24. DropBox
25. Drp.io
26. Google Drive

The fact that visual information is processed by our brain 60 000 times faster than ordinary text leads to all-round usage of visual content in eLearning design. That is why we compiled popular resources with free animation, photos, images, infographics, videos and other types of visual content to create appealing and engaging eLearning courses.

27. Albumarium
28. All the Free Stock
29. www.camarama.de
30. Community Articulate Downloads
31. Crow the Stone
32. Death to the Stock Photo
33. DreamStine
34. Every Stock Photo
35. FindA.Photo
36. Foter
37. Free Digital Photos
38. www.freeimages.com
39. Free Medical ELearning Images
40. Free Photos Bank
41. www.freeimages.pictures
42. GetReFe
43. Good Free Photos
44. Gratisography
45. ImageFree
46. Jeshoots
47. Life of Pix
48. Magdeleine
49. MorgueFile
50. Photo Everywhere
51. Picjumbo
52. Picography
53. Pixabay
54. Pixels
55. Public Domain Pictures
56. Snapographic
57. Splashbase
58. Stock Up
59. Stockpic
60. Pixabay
61. Stockvault
62. Unsplash

63. Canva
64. Pixlr
65. Placeit
66. Recite
67. Skitch
68. Social Image Resizer Tool

69. ImageOptim
70. ImageOptimizer
71. Kraken
72. TinyJPG
73. TinyPNG

74. ELearning Couch Icons Collection
75. Endless Icons
76. Flat Icon
77. Font Awesome
78. Fontello
79. Freepik
80. Glyphsearch
81. Ico Moon
82. Icon Finder
83. Icon Sweets
84. MakeAppIcon
85. Material Design Icons
86. Perfect Icons
87. The Noun Project

88. All silhoutes
89. Freevectorarchives
90. Freevectors
91. Vecteezy
92. Vectorstock

93. 3D Tin to make 3D models within a web browser.
94. Animaps to create animated maps.
95. Dygraphs a JavaScript code to build graphs.
96. Easel.ly an online service for infographic creation.
97. Flash Card maker to make your own flash cards.
98. Fusion Tables - Google’s app to create graphics, maps and diagrams.
99. Google Charts – a chart tool.
100. Inforgr.am – a data visualization product.
101. Slideshare – an online service to share presentations.
102. Tableua – an online tool for diagrams and infographics creation.
103. TimeLine – a widget to make interactive timelines.
104. Visual.ly to create infographics.

105. Audacity – a cross platform for recording and editing sounds.
106. CamStudio – free streaming video software.
107. Chirbit – a tool to record, upload and share voice and audio files.
108. NaturalReader – a tool to convert written words to spoken ones.
109. SoundCapture – streaming audio software.
110. Vocaroo – a voice recording service.
111. Wavosaur - a free sound editor for Windows

112. Screencast-O-Matic- one-click screen capture recording.
113. Screenpresso - image and video screen capture.
114. Screenr – a web-based screen recorder.

115. Flashkit
116. Free Music Achieve
117. Freeplay Music
118. Sound Bible
119. Sound Gator
120. SoundJay
121. SoundSnap
122. Soungle

To make eLearning Courses readable and appealing there are resources where you can find free fonts and color schemes.

123. 101 Free Fonts – a selection of free fonts.
124. Beautiful Web Type – typefaces from the Google web fonts directory.
125. DaFont – a collection of free fonts.
126. Font Squirrel - free fonts for commercial work.
127. FontPark – archive of free fonts.
128. Google Fonts – free fonts optimized for the web.
129. Open Font Library.
130. TypeGenius - fonts for your eLearning projects.
131. Urban Fonts

132. Coleure to match colors.
133. Colorful Gradients to create gradients.
134. Coolors – a color scheme generator.
135. Flat UI colors - flat colors for your project design.
136. Material Palette to create and export color palette.
137. New Flat UI Color Picker – flat colors for your project design.
138. Paletton – a color scheme designer.

When you need software to create and deliver content to end users it is not necessary to use paid Authoring tools. Instead use one of those:

139. Adobe Course Builder
140. authorPointLite
141. CourseLab
142. EasyGenerator
143. eXe
144. PowerPointForce
145. QuizForce
146. WordForce

And in the end there are some freebies from eLearning Industry Professionals:

147. Durarte.com to make diagrams for your presentations.
148. ELearning Brothers Freebies – a collection of eLearning templates, icons, eLearning games, layout and scenario templates.
149. ELearning Couch Freebies
150. ELearning Locker Freebies

As we can see there are plenty of tools to create awesome eLearning courses without paying huge sums of money! Feel free to suggest more resources we can use for eLearning courses design and management!