OCPL Digital Learning

For information about our digital reference resources and how to use them, click on our Libguide.

NEW RESOURCES FOR TEACHERS, HOME SCHOOL, AND MORE!

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All Digital Resources

Knowledge City features short courses in business, finance, computing, workplace safety, and workplace compliance. Free with your library card. Just enter your card number and PIN when prompted.

Duolingo is FREE language learning software that can be used anywhere.

Find more information about what is available with, and how to use, Ancestry.com Library Edition with this guide.
The Ancestry database cannot be accessed from home.

South Carolina’s Virtual Library

Click the link for SmartSearch: http://www.scdiscus.org/smartsearch

Contact your local branch if you are prompted for a user name and password.

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Click the banner above for Tumblebooks!

Value Line Investment and market information.

Additional learning resources:

South Carolina Encyclopedia

Goodwill Community Foundation LearnFree.org — provides free classes in technology, learning and math.

Free online computer classes:

Use these online resources to brush up on your technology skills!

Computer Basics

Keyboarding Practice
Learn Typing is an online free typing tutor. Free typing lessons have been prepared for people of all ages, experiences and abilities to learn typing.
Mousing Practice
The Palm Beach County Library System presents this resource to help beginning computer users become familiar with using a mouse.
Microsoft Office Training
From Microsoft, training for their latest Office products including Word, Excel, Powerpoint and more
Excel Easy
Free tutorial and example on how to use Excel

Internet

Bare Bones 101: A Basic Tutorial on Searching the Web
This tutorial from the University of South Carolina Beaufort evaluates specific search engines.

Free online learning:

Coursera    https://www.coursera.org/

edX       https://www.edx.org/

Khan Academy     https://www.khanacademy.org/

MIT Open Courseware     https://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm

saylor.org  academy            http://www.saylor.org/

Course Hero                  https://www.coursehero.com/

Digital Public Library of America           https://dp.la/

Merlot           https://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm

europeana        http://www.europeana.eu/portal/en

openstax           https://openstax.org/

cc      https://creativecommons.org/   Creative Commons helps you legally share your knowledge and creativity to build a more equitable, accessible, and innovative world — unlocking the full potential of the internet to drive a new era of development, growth and productivity.  To search, see   https://search.creativecommons.org/

Another site which guides you to a list of MOOC s*  is     https://www.mooc-list.com/

* Massive Open Online Course (MOOC /muːk/) is an online course aimed at unlimited participation and open access via the web.  Source:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massive_open_online_course