In most states, schools have closed their doors, placing the responsibility of childcare and education on parents and caretakers at home.

While it doesn’t replace school completely, online learning can help supplement your child’s learning during this time. Below are resources and organizations tackling this for all ages.

For Children (ages 2-14)

• PBS resources — PBS Kids online resources for children ages 2-8
• Frozen’s Olaf — the voice of Olaf (played by Josh Gad) narrating books, posted on his twitter feed
• Apple’s Education Team — known for their focus on children and early childhood learning, Apple compiled a list of 1-activity-a-day exercises, for 30 days, to help keep kids busy and learning
• Stanford School of Education — Stanford’s Graduate School of Education’s content hub to support stay-at-home learning
• National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) — take a look at the sections “Resources to Support Children’s Learning” and “Math Resources”
• For Special Needs Kids — Easterseal’s list of online resources for special-needs children
• Free Kids Audiobooks — Audible has made 100s of Children’s audiobooks available for free

For Young Adults (ages 15-22)

Coursera

• Coursera is one of the world’s largest online learning platforms. 190+ universities and companies have uploaded their learning curriculum for students everywhere to learn. They’ve made several courses free-of-charge in light of Covid-19.
• They have a pages dedicated to specific learning levels:
  • High school courses
  • College courses
  • Career Development
• They also have sections for various topics and interest areas:
  • Soft Skills
  • Gaming & Virtual Reality
  • Art: Poetry, Photography, Design
  • Understanding the Brain
  • Data Science
• See all 19 courses here

edX

• edX compiles online courses from renown universities worldwide, with 2800+ courses and 100+ schools. Auditing the classes is free (or you may pay to receive a certificate of completion).
• Here are a few schools that have 30+ courses available:
  • Harvard (USA)
  • MIT (USA)
  • Berkeley (USA)
  • Stanford (USA)
  • Columbia (USA)
  • University of Michigan (USA)
  • Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (Switzerland)
  • Delft University of Technology (Netherlands)
  • Peking University (China)
  • Tsinghua University (China)
  • Curtin University (Australia)
• View all 100+ schools here

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