Following Sites are good sources of free resources including software and training materials. These sites provide links to enter in world of free web based materials. Their coverage is vast and hence patience is expected to explore them. Certainly group effort will make work easier.
International Statistical Institute (ISI): Although List of free tools and contents are not as wide as at Global Sociology and Stat Pages but generally links provide good materials. With multiple links for particular area, site suggest best for starting in particular area. It also provide good resources for teachers through its project International Statistical Literacy Project. International Association for Statistical Education (IASE) is the education section of the International Statistical Institute (ISI), but may also be joined independently by those who wish participate in IASE's activities, or simply to support the work on improving statistics education and extending its outreach. One of the main contribution of IASE is free resources for teaching through Statistics Education Research Journal (SERJ).
Global Sociology: Although goal of site is global sociology i.e. to bring together knowledge of social, political and economic world. Site is good entry point for free stuff available in field of sociology, economics and political science. It also provides a page containing lists of free statistical software, along with mapping, spreadsheets, database, stuff to do data analysis or management. It also provide free statistical methods used in socio-economic area specially in qualitative data analysis. Site may be useful economist, sociologist, political scientist who want to important theories (used in sociology and economics) and methods (including statistical).
Stat Pages: Well categorized list of software may be obtained at satatPages.org. It provide list of free and partially free software in different areas like general packages, survey, programming languages for statistics use, macros etc. It gives link for online statistical computational tools which are very useful for online courses. Statistics Online Computational Resource (SOCR)is one of them. It is designed for freely disseminate knowledge. It provides portable online aids for probability and statistics education, technology based instruction and statistical computing. SOCR tools and resources include a repository of interactive applets, computational and graphing tools, instructional and course materials. Detail of interactive materials has also been provided as wiki page.
The Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (CCCOER) is a joint effort by many community colleges and university partners to develop and use open educational resources (OER) and especially open textbooks in community college courses. It has good collection of statistics books also which are basically wikibooks. Link for a large number of OER sites has been placed at right side of home page. OER revolution is great help for e-learning.One can search OER content through UNESCO OER Toolkit/Finding and Using Open Educational Resources.
StatLib was founded for distributing statistical software, datasets, and information by electronic mail, FTP and WWW in April of 1989 by Mike Meyer a then Senior Research Scientist, in the Department of Statistics, at Carnegie.
System Analysis Laboratory: Material available at site is mainly concerned with decision theory (from statistics point of view) but site can be used for getting link for free statistical resources and web tools. Links have been organised in well structured manner. Also provides links for interactive tools (like applets).
Site of Betty C Jung: It is site for links on statistics related with public health specially biostatistics. It also proves links for training on basic statistics and numerical literacy.
Sharing of teaching experiences: online service for sharing experiences has been provided by the Australian Learning and Teaching Council. Through program Exchange council works for identifying, disseminating and embedding good individual practice and institutional practice into the higher education sector. The Exchange supports networking and the development of communities of practice across the higher education sector. This site is helpful for teachers to exchange ideas based on teaching experiments.
Free Statistics: Free statistics information provides link for basic and advance learning resources from various field like engineering. Although links are limited but they are linked to relatively better sites.
Statistical Literacy and Education: The International Association for Statistical Education (IASE) is a major source of statistics education. The International Statistical Literacy Project plays an important role for purpose of expanding statistical literacy. It is joint project of IASE and International Statistical Institute. Under this project, contents related to statistical literacy across the world, among young and adults, in all walks of life. To this end, it provides an online repository of international resources and news in Statistical Literacy.
Teaching Statistics is international quarterly online journal which appeared first time in 1979. It is published by Royal Statistical Society Center for Statistics Education. Its aim is to support teachers in teaching statistics to students up to age 19.
Another site, Statlit.org provides link of resources for numerical literacy. Many links (for books) placed at site are not free. Articles are mostly free. Page by Milo Schield may be useful for getting resources on numerical literacy.
For statistical literacy many government organization like Statistics Canada, Statistics Australia etc. working. One can find such organization at Partners of Statistics section.
Certainly these sites are useful for users of statistics mainly for them who are searching free statistical resources (specially software). Sites do not say any thing about how good software are, whether they crash etc.. Sharing experiences regarding these free software will be significant addition in knowledge base in area of statistics. Most of the sites metioned in next sections may be present as link in above mentioned four link pages.
Good Site for Statistics Education
International Statistical Institute (ISI) is good site for teachers. Its education section IASE has good recourses for teachers. Free sources have benefit that it can be discussed easily on web. I found two topics very interesting which I want to share. First is related with history of statistics and second is concerned with courses on government statistics.
Certainly it is very interacting to know what were the motivating factor behind different statistical methods. What we are getting currently in name of history of statistics is who and when we rarely discuss why and how. Author has tried to present motivation of William Sealy Gosset for his research of t distribution and using sample inference.
Second paper is also interesting. It is about creation of course on statistics used by government.
Good Site for Statistics Education
Do you not think that your opinion will be more useful if you can write your opinion as forum topic?
If you have interest in history of statistics two books -(1) A history of the mathematical theory of probability: from time of the Pascal to that of Laplace by I Todhunter (2) Doctrine of Chance by A. De Moivre- on web may be useful. You can download these books from site of Universal Access to Human Knowledge.
Said course for government statistics is good initiative but it has to evolve a lot to get maturity. In this course more emphasis on national account but survey (quantitative as well as qualitative) part ignored. I will try to write in detail in my blog.
Good Site for Statistics Education
I feel each section of Voices of Statistics as Forum. There are two reasons to write here-(1) Understanding of context is more easier (2) Any user who is searching material for teaching purpose may get benefited with my comments.