With the introduction of technology in the education sector and several debates about banning smartphones in schools in the country, we need to understand the good and the bad side of the internet. While the world is literally at your fingertips, the same is true vice versa; your data is also at the world’s fingertips. Thus pointing out how important it is to look into privacy and safe browsing while surfing the internet. The other side of the internet is the abundance of opportunities to learn and develop various skills. Diving into the internet to learn something can be often overwhelming, and despite many useful platforms being there right in front of us, it is easy to get lost. So, here are a few free platforms from which you can access
Swayam Prabha
SWAYAM Prabha is an initiative of the Ministry of Education to provide 80 high-quality educational channels through DTH throughout the country on a 24×7 basis. It covers all the major subjects and ensures new content is out there regularly.
National Digital Library of India
The National Digital Library of India (NDLI) functions as an online repository of educational resources, including textbooks, articles, videos, audiobooks, lectures, simulations, fiction, and other instructional materials for the academic community. This initiative is managed by the Ministry of Education, Government of India, through its National Mission on Education via Information and Communication Technology (NMEICT). The platform is developed, operated, and maintained by the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur.
eGyanKosh
eGyanKosh is a national digital archive to store, index, preserve, distribute and share the digital learning resources developed by the open and distance learning institutions in the country, maintained and run by IGNOU.
SWAYAM
SWAYAM is a free, open online platform provided by the Indian government that offers educational courses for university and college learners. The SWAYAM initiative was launched by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) (now Ministry of Education), Government of India, in 2017 under ‘Digital India’, covering all advanced education, high school, and skill sector courses.
freeCodeCamp
freeCodeCamp (also referred to as Free Code Camp) is a non-profit educational organisation that consists of an interactive learning web platform, an online community forum, online publications and local organisations that intend to make learning software development and computer programming accessible to anyone, beginning with tutorials that introduce students to HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python, C#, etc.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy is an American non-profit educational organisation created in 2006 to create a set of online tools that help educate students. The organisation produces short video lessons as well as supplementary practice exercises and materials for educators. It has produced over 10,000 video lessons teaching a wide spectrum of academic subjects, including mathematics, sciences, literature, history, and computer science, that are available for free.
ePathshala: NCERT
ePathshala is a portal or app initiated jointly by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, CIET, and NCERT and launched in 2015. It hosts educational resources for teachers, students, parents, researchers and educators in English, Hindi and Urdu. The platform offers a slew of educational resources, including NCERT textbooks for classes 1–12, audio-visual resources by NCERT, periodicals, supplements, teacher training modules and a variety of other print and non-print materials. These materials can be downloaded by the user for offline use with no limits on downloads.
DIKSHA
DIKSHA, or Digital Infrastructure for Knowledge Sharing, is a national platform for school education, an initiative of the NCERT, under the aegis of the Ministry of Education. DIKSHA can be accessed by learners and teachers across the country and currently supports 36 Indian languages. DIKSHA policies and tools make it possible for the education ecosystem to participate, contribute and leverage a common platform to achieve learning goals at scale for the country. Under the PM eVidya initiative, which was declared as part of the Atma Nirbhar Bharat, DIKSHA has been declared as ‘One Nation, One Digital Platform’.
A few platforms you can check for materials are resources for higher studies, including e-PG Pathshala, ShodhGanga, which is a reservoir of Indian theses from the INFLIBNET, the National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL), and TestHQ: aptitude tests.
Published – March 31, 2025 03:54 pm IST