The following are current resources for curriculum, research, and general information regarding virtual education.

Free-Ed Net: These pioneers’ offer more than 180 individual courses of study, from Archaeology to Zoology, from Jr-High level to PhD. These are real courses, not just how-to articles. Most offer all the necessary text materials (free of charge, of course) and a growing number of courses include quizzes and exams.

Education Virtual Library: A well-organized library of links for education by age level, curriculum sector, type, and country.

Virtualology: Beautiful virtual museum offering visual education in areas of Art, History, Science, Natural History, and War.

Teachers Network Online Courses: Some helpful resources for thosewho teach. Good for new home schooling parents in particular.

Free online college courses
In the Information Age anyone can design a personally adaptable college level education curriculum, and get the educational materials from teachers to workbooks for basically free – directly from the University.

Given the cost of going to college physically these days, it is nice to know those with a desire to receive a education can do so, even if they don’t have enough money to attend college in the flesh. Here are links to universities with online educational curriculum or programs.Starting with languages Penn State University offers a free Swedish language course, and a free Hungarian language course. You can take an Italian language and culture course from Brooklyn College.

California State also offers a free Conversational Mandarin Chinese course, and you can learn Turkish via the University of Arizona.Teach yourself sign language from Michigan State University. Browse through the vast treasures at the Library of Congress. View free videos on all sorts of subjects from Annenberg Media, a major supplier to most distance learning universities, or read the core documents of American democracy.

At the University of Washington's free online courses you’ll find many offerings.Study theology at Covenant Seminary; course offerings are delivered via a combination of free downloadable .pdf files and podcasts, and include subjects ranging from Church History to the Modern Reformation. Access free seminary courses from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary and compare.

The University of Washington School of Medicine offers free CPR classes online, complete with video and instructional guides. You can also take health courses from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; anything from adolescent health to population science.Get free online mathematics textbooks, videos, and lecture notes from New York University.

Learn mathematics with this extensive list of free online math courses from Whatcom Community College. Visit Carnegie Mellon University and take Biology, Causal Reasoning, Statistics, and more, all for free.

Take eight different courses via the Sofia Project, a collaborative effort between select California community colleges. Brigham Young University offers independent study in subjects such as Family History, Family Life, and Religious Scripture Study. Learn about human resources in 52 different free courses from ERI.

Discover a huge variety of materials in the University of Michigan's courses and seminars on Internet laws. Take advantage of Stanford University's free CS education library. Go to college by taking free classes at MIT.

Go to Berkeley with your iPod. The University of Pennsylvania has an extensive online library; over 25,000 books are listed here.Just debuted, you can take free courses from Yale (funded by HP) on such diverse subjects as the Old Testament or Physics. Watch or read free online lectures in archival format from Princeton. Get a free Introduction to Probability text from Dartmouth.