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You may find the following videos useful in your courses. This list originally appeared on OpenCulture.
General
- @GoogleTalks
- Google has lots of famous visitors speaking at its headquarters, and they're all recorded and neatly presented here.
- Al Jazeera English
- The Middle Eastern news service, which has generated its share of
controversy, now airs broadcasts in English and presents them here.
- The Middle Eastern news service, which has generated its share of
- Amnesty International
- The leading human rights organization brings you various videos
outlining human rights concerns across the globe, and the work they're
doing to improve conditions.
- The leading human rights organization brings you various videos
- BBC
- A series of videos promoting programs coming out of Britain's main
media outlet. Unfortunately many of these videos are short and not
entirely substantive. A missed opportunity.
- A series of videos promoting programs coming out of Britain's main
- BBC Worldwide
- Ditto.
- Big Think
- This collection brings you videos featuring some of today's leading thinkers, movers and shakers.
- BoingBoingTV
- These videos are brought to you by the makers of the very popular BoingBoing blog.
- Brooklyn Museum
- A fairly rich lineup of videos exploring the collections at Brooklyn's main art museum.
- Charlie Rose
- PBS interviewer Charlie Rose presents segments of his nightly interviews.
- Citizen Tube
- YouTube's own channel presents videos dealing with the American political process and the 2008 election.
- Computer History Museum
- A good number of videos that delve into computers, networking, and semiconductors.
- Council on Foreign Relations
- A resource designed to provide insight into the complex international issues challenging policymakers and citizens alike.
- CSPAN
- Videos that keep a close eye on the inner-workings of the American political process.
- FORA.tv
- Delivers video presentations from the world's great writers, leaders, activists and thinkers.
- Guardian Unlimited TV
- The Guardian brings you videos that make the television world its focus.
- Gizmodo
- A video collection from one of the most popular technology web sites.
- Google Tech Talks
- The name kind of says it all.
- HBO
- Provides outtakes from new HBO productions. The videos are all short and largely promotional. Give us some beef, sirs.
- KQED on Demand- San Francisco
- Media provided by the public broadcasting company in the San Francisco Bay Area. I drink at this well daily.
- MoMA
- Videos highlighting the art collection, public programs, and temporary exhibitions at The Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
- National Geographic
- The collection is rich, but the videos are short. Another instance
where the provider could use the medium to offer more substance/depth.
- The collection is rich, but the videos are short. Another instance
- New Scientist.
- Videos and vodcasts covering science, technology, space, the
environment and a whole lot more. An international team of expert
journalists brings you the latest innovations and ideas in science and
technology, from the wonderful to the worrying to the weird.
- Videos and vodcasts covering science, technology, space, the
- NOVA
- Short video outtakes from PBS's popular science program.
- PBS
- Promotes new PBS programming with painfully short videos.
- PoliticsTV
- Political videos with a progressive bent.
- Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
- The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting's mission is to promote
in-depth coverage of international affairs, focusing on topics that
have been under-reported, mis-reported - or not reported at all.
- The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting's mission is to promote
- ReelNASA
- Videos show the latest happenings at NASA and new developments in space exploration.
- Reuters Video
- The latest video from Reuters.
- Sundance
- Provides video clips from original series and films airing on the Sundance Channel.
- The Commonwealth Club (San Francisco)
- Videos coming out of the nation's oldest and largest public affairs
forum, presenting topics ranging across politics, culture, and society.
- Videos coming out of the nation's oldest and largest public affairs
- The Commoncraft Show
- The Common Craft Show is a series of short explanatory videos by
Lee and Sachi LeFever. The goal is to fight complexity with simple
tools and plain language.
- The Common Craft Show is a series of short explanatory videos by
- The Davos Question
- Every year, global leaders attend the World Economic Forum in
Davos, Switzerland to discuss how to better the world. Here you get to
see what they have to say.
- Every year, global leaders attend the World Economic Forum in
- The New York Times
- All the news that's fit to stream.
- The New Yorker
- The official video channel of The New Yorker magazine.
- The Nobel Prize
- Brings you fascinating insights into the minds of current and past Nobel Laureates.
- The Onion News Network
- A good dose of funny videos from The Onion. Good for when you need some comic relief.
- The Real News
- The Real News Network is a global online video news network that
listens to and is dependent solely on its audience. No ads. No
government subsidies. No corporate sponsorship.
- The Real News Network is a global online video news network that
- The Research Channel
- Based out of the University of Washington, the ResearchChannel
brings together content from leading research and academic institutions.
- Based out of the University of Washington, the ResearchChannel
- The World Bank
- Videos coming out of the institution whose goal is to rid the world of poverty..
- The YouTube Screening Room
- Provided by YouTube itself, this collection presents high quality,
independent films to web users and promises to roll out four new films
every two weeks.
- Provided by YouTube itself, this collection presents high quality,
- TED Talks
- Generally engaging videos coming out of the annual TED conference. Features important thinkers from different walks of life.
- WNYC Radio
- Videos provided by WNYC, New York Public Radio, the largest public radio station in the US.
- World Economic Forum
- The World Economic Forum is an independent international
organization committed to improving the state of the world by engaging
leaders in partnerships to shape global, regional and industry agendas.
- The World Economic Forum is an independent international
- Yad Vashem
- Containing the world's largest repository of information on the
Holocaust, Yad Vashem is a leader in Holocaust education,
commemoration, research and documentation.
- Containing the world's largest repository of information on the
- 92nd Street Y
- Pretty much anyone and everyone on the cultural radar passes through the 92nd Y in NYC.
Universities
Spotlighted Collections
- University of California - Berkeley
- Arguably the most substantive YouTube collection out there.
Features a large number of free courses, plus numerous lectures given
by important figures.
- Arguably the most substantive YouTube collection out there.
- Indian Institute of Technology/Indian Institute of Science
- Presented by the leading technology institutes in India, this
collection features more than 50 free courses. Obviously has a strong
technology/engineering bent.
- Presented by the leading technology institutes in India, this
- MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- Makes available many of the videos produced as part of MIT's leading OpenCourseWare initiative.
- Stanford University
- Newly launched, the collection already features a couple hundred videos, including several free courses.
- UChannel (Princeton)
- Spearheaded by Princeton, this collection aggregates quality videos coming from a consortium of major universities.
Other University Collections
- Auburn University
- Hard to separate the intellectual substance from videos that have a
more promotional & internal bent. But some of the former is there
to be found.
- Hard to separate the intellectual substance from videos that have a
- Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School
- The videos hosted here look at how the digital world and the law intersect.
- Carnegie Mellon
- Among other things, this collection features the highly popular video: Randy Pausch's Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams.
- Duke University
- Individual videos explore the research coming out of one of America's leading universities.
- Duke's Fuqua School of Business
- Similar to Duke's main collection, but focused on business.
- EGS (The European Graduate School)
- This European collection features important, contemporary theorists, philosophers, and filmmakers.
- Harvard's Bok Center
- A small collection focused on pedagogy.
- Old Dominion
- A little bit of a hodgepodge but there's some interesting items in the mix.
- Ohio State
- So far not an overwhelming use of the medium.
- Oxford University - Saïd Business School
- Rather internally focused. Not much in the way of educational
content per se. But let's keep our fingers crossed that it eventually
offers more.
- Rather internally focused. Not much in the way of educational
- Purdue University
- Again something of a hodgepodge. Wheat and chaff.
- Sonoma State
- A more intellectually robust collection that features a fair amount of notable lectures.
- Tulane University
- You can access some of the speeches by esteemed guest speakers here.
- University of Arizona
- You can sort through a good number of talks here.
- University of California TV
- UCTV pulls together videos from the campuses, national
laboratories, and affiliated institutions of the University of
California.
- UCTV pulls together videos from the campuses, national
- University of Chicago Press
- Though still modest in size, the collection features some interesting items.
- University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
- The collection is substantive on the whole. You will need to sift through the videos to find ones of interest.
- UCSF Memory & Aging Channel
- UCSF, one of the leading medical schools in the US, features videos
that will "educate patients, caregivers and health professionals about
the various forms of neurodegenerative diseases. The diseases covered
here include Alzheimer's, Frontotemporal dementia and Creutzfelt-Jakob
- UCSF, one of the leading medical schools in the US, features videos
- USC (University of Southern California)
- Vanderbilt University
- An eclectic mix.