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Advantages of StudyVillage.com


Children love working with computers and playing games. Why not take advantage of this interest and help them utilize their computer time effectively?

StudyVillage is designed to help students improve their skills by using computers and technology effectively. We do not offer any games just for fun, but we do have several "learn through fun" activities designed to develop various skills for kids.

StudyVillage is a free educational website for children

This site is an excellent source of educational material for pre schoolers to high school students. The best part is, all our services are absolutely free.

All our programs are children friendly and easy to navigate. It is very hard to make mistakes and there is no real damage your child can make by doing a mistake here. If you are looking for free and good educational websites, you are in the right place.

StudyVillage.com: Why we think this site will become the best educational site for kids?


We have 3 boys who love to sit in front of the computer all time. They are good at reading and do great at school, but we felt that their attention is deviating towards computers and browsing. So we started thinking various ways to keep their interest in studies and skill development while they continue to use their time with computers.

We started browsing for educational websites that help children learn while having fun. During our several months long research, we came across various educational websites for children. However, most of the websites we found had one or other reasons that made us look for alternatives.

Some of the concerns we had with other educational websites for kids:

1. Most of the free educational sites for children are filled with advertisements. While the website owners have good intentions, many times the ads delivered by the Ad networks on the children's websites are not so child friendly. I have seen adult Ads in many educational websites, which made us stay from all such websites since we never know unwanted ads appear there.

2. Many educational sites for children are paid sites, if they are not funded from advertisements. If children want to use their educational features, they have to pay huge monthly fees to get access to them.

3. Features and options available in many paid sites are limited. To use various features, we had to subscribe to multiple sites, paying fees in all of them.

While we could afford to pay the fees asked by those web sites (and we did use them), we started thinking about options to make such services available to other thousands of kids who cannot afford the fees. We thought about various options including paying some big money to existing sites and making it available for free to children all over the world. However, we could not make that work.

Finally, we started thinking about developing our own educational website to help the children. When we talked about this idea to our children, they were very excited which gave a boost to our plans. And being a software engineer myself and having the owner of few other websites, it was quite easy for us to get started with this plan.

We started thinking a good domain name for our new site. Since this site is for educational purpose, we wanted to make sure the words "study" or "education" is part of the domain name. Also, we wanted the name to be as short as possible so that it is easy for kids to remember. We considered several good names, but most of them were already taken by someone.

Finally, my elder son John came up with a name that caught the attention of everyone at home. In few hours, we went ahead and registered the domain name and started a small websites. That gave birth to "StudyVillage.com".

Before we announced the website to public, we had our children use it for few months and made sure all glitches are solved and the site is user friendly.

Free educational websites for kids


Does it not sound cool? Everyone likes free stuff and so are we. During our initial search for educational websites for our children, we were looking for free websites with no subscription charges. We searched a lot and found several sites and tried our child to join some of them. But here is what we found:

1. No useful educational content: Most of the so called free sites do not have any content their own. They all have lot of stuff in the home page to attract everyone to their site. if you click on some links, it just takes you to another page that talk about free educational material, but those pages have nothing other than those description and links to some other pages. If you go to those pages further, they will have the same - just some description and then links back to other pages! You will never find anything useful in those sites other than just links to other pages.

2. Excessive Ads: Many free sites are operated by earning revenue from advertisements. While they start with limited ads in the home page to attract parents, when you go deep in to the pages, our kids could find too many Ads, sometimes making it difficult to even find the real content in the pages. The real content was hidden by excessive number of Ads.

3. Intrusive Ads: We understand the free sites need fund to run, but some sites go to the extend of on child friendly Ads in their efforts to make maximum advantage of the children visiting their sites.

4. Unprofessional design: While paid sites could afford to spend money to make cool and friendly design for their websites, the free sites often come poor, unprofessional designs, making it non interesting for kids to stay attracted to the site. A good design is important for websites for children.

Best free educational websites for kids


Are you looking for the best educational websites for children? We have gone through this phase for years and have some recommendations. Being parents of 3 kids, we have done a lot of research on our efforts looking for some good sites that provide fun and education at the same time.

What we expect in a good educational site

While looking for the good educational sites, we came across hundreds of websites that provide information for children. We can group such sites to the following primary categories:

1. Sites provide games and other fun
2. Sites that provide academic material
3. Combination of fun and education

There were several websites which were designed to trick kids by showing attractive home pages, but if you go inside, you will see nothing other than some links to promotional products or links to third party websites. It was a hard process for us to identify the good sites from the bad ones.

How to choose the best free educational websites for children?


There are several factors to consider while you choose the educational websites for your kids.

1. Age of the kids
Not all sites are suitable for all kids. Smaller kids need much simpler content and navigation.

2. Graphics in the site
If your kid is less than 10 year old, graphics is an important factor to keep them motivated to use the site. Elder kids may not give same level of interest for graphics, they are more picky on the content. It will be very hard to keep a 12 year old kid in a site unless he/she like the content in the site.

3. Navigation of the site
It should be easy for the kids to navigate through various features in the site and find what exactly they need. Kids should be able to reach various sections and features in the site in as low as 3 clicks.

3. Games
It is a good idea to have some fun after long hours of study. No kid will be interested to spend all the time in front of the computer just for learning.

If you can find an educational website that allow kids to play puzzles and brain development games for a short time after some creative activity. It will be ideal if the time duration for games can be set by parents or if the site allows specific period of game play after successful completion of certain educational activity. StudyVillage is designed to provide this kind of activity.

4. Cost and subscription fees
Many educational sites require a pretty big amount as subscription fees to access the educational material Try to find a site that offer unlimited access to educational material at nominal cost.

There are large number of free educational sites, but it is hard to pick a good one. Most of those sites have very limited content or are supported by advertising. You will never know when an adult Ad appear in those sites which could easily confuse your young one.

StudyVillage offers free educational material with no intruding advertisements. Our Ads are filtered for adult content. We have spent a lot of time building this site for our own kids and we want to share the benefits of our efforts with all other parents.


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