ALISON is the world's leading free online learning resource for basic and essential workplace skills. ALISON provides high-quality, engaging, interactive multimedia courseware for certification and standards-based learning. All courses on ALISON are accessible for free to individual learners. ALISON’s mission is to enable anyone, anywhere, to educate themselves for free via interactive self-paced multimedia. It is underpinned by a Human Rights philosophy that stipulates that everyone has the right to free education.

These instruments for training and learning evaluation and follow-up were developed by W Leslie Rae MPhil, FITOL, Chartered FCIPD, who is an expert in this field, and author of over 30 books about training and learning. These materials are free for personal and organizational use subject to the terms stated (basically, retain the copyright notice, accept liability for any issues arising, and don't sell or publish the materials).

An OpenCourseWare is a free and open digital publication of high quality educational materials, organised as courses. The OpenCourseWare Consortium is a collaboration of more than 200 higher education institutions and associated organizations from around the world creating a broad and deep body of open educational content using a shared model.

The mission of the OpenCourseWare Consortium is to advance education and empower people worldwide through open course ware.

The UNPAN Online Training Centre delivers courses on various topics in public administration. The main objective of the UNPAN Training Centre is to increase the opportunities for government officials from all over the world to access training materials on e-government. UNPAN online training courses are available to anyone with Internet access and are provided free of charge. The bulk of UNPAN on-line training courses are available in English, with some also in French and Arabic.

An online service for professional trainers (business oriented and not specifically for the African market). For an annual subscription, members gain a licence to use a huge range of innovative training materials including icebreakers, course modules, teambuilding games and much more, including detailed trainer's notes, handouts, team briefs etc.

The udutu online course authoring tool – myudutu^TM – can save you time and money. Myudutu^TM is a FREE web-based tool which allows users to create highly interactive elearning courses quickly and easily.

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UNESCO has completed the first phase of developing a consolidated information system and database on ODL in sub-Saharan Africa. The broader purpose of this ‘knowledge base’ is to offer an integrated knowledge guide to distance education and open learning. The knowledge base includes selected readings, reports of good practice, and other information tools, targeted to help public and private organizations, and individuals using distance education as a means of human development in the education sector, beginning with higher education.

The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) announced its suite of e-Learning Courses for 2009. These courses are designed for professionals from government ministries, public or private entities involved with finance and trade issues, as well as for academics studying these issues, employees of international organisations, NGO-officials and interested individuals. Courses are run on a cost recovery basis of US$400 per course per participant.

Report prepared by the Independent Evaluations Group of the World Bank

For related documentation and resources see http://www.worldbank.org/ieg/training/