Just about everyone knows about online education nowadays, because many are taking advantage of continuing education online and earning online degrees to obtain their goals in life. What most are not aware of is how many free online educational tools and resources that are available on the internet. Here are the top 8 free online educational tools as voted by teaching professionals that are made available online:

1. Twitter

Twitter is a social networking and micro blogging service which lets you send and get messages known as tweets. Tweets are text posts that can be only 140 characters and are sent to subscribers also known as followers. Tweets can be sent or received from Twitter website, SMS (short message service), or apps (applications) for smart phones. It currently has over 100 million users.

2. Delicious

Delicious is a social book marking online service for keeping, sending, and finding webpage bookmarks. The free service has over 5 million users and more than 100 bookmarked URLs.

3. YouTube

YouTube is for online video file sharing that lets people upload, share, and watch videos. You can watch movie clips, TV clips, and music videos, as well as amateur videos. Most of the videos on YouTube are uploaded by regular people but some big media corporations post material also.

4. Google Reader

Google Reader is an online aggregator, that can read Atom and RSS feed on the web or offline.

5. Google Docs

Google Docs is a free, Online Office suite made available by Google. It lets people to make and edit documents online and collaborate in real-time with other people.

6. WordPress

WordPress is a free CMS (control management system) source; used mostly for blogging it has a lot of features that use plug-in architecture and templating systems. It is the most popular blog software around nowadays.

7. Slideshare

Slideshare is a slide hosting services that is web-based and lets users to upload, look at, comment on, and share slideshows made with presentation software. It is the most popular slide hosting services on the web.

8. Google Search

Google Web Search is an online search engine and is the most popular search engine on the internet passing Yahoo the previous number 1 some year back. Google get hundreds of millions of search everyday through its many services. The main purpose is to find text online in website around the world.

Friends, do share more such resources which you feel are missing from the list above.