Research Guides: Education: Streaming media

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Streaming media for education

Education in Video
Provides access to videos developed specifically for training and developing teachers, such as teaching demonstrations, lectures, documentaries, and primary-source footage of students and teachers in actual classrooms.
JoVE
JoVE is a peer reviewed, scientific video journal that offers educational videos to support the effective teaching of science concepts and laboratory methods in undergraduate and graduate courses at universities and colleges. These videos enable quick in-depth comprehension of complex STEM subjects to increase student engagement and learning outcomes, and support innovative teaching initiatives such as blended learning and flipped classroom.

Khan Academy
Khan Academy is a personalized learning resource for all ages. Content includes practice exercises and instructional videos, and covers subjects from kindergarten through early college, including math, science, reading, computing, history, art history, economics, financial literacy, SAT, MCAT, and more. Khan Academy focuses on skill mastery to help learners build the strong foundations they need to succeed in higher education and in their careers.
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General streaming platforms

UC Irvine Libraries subscribes to numerous streaming media platforms covering dance, music, theater, ethnography, and more. This list is a few of the more general streaming media platforms to which we offer access.

Academic Video Online (AVON)
Provides access to streaming videos in a variety of subject areas, including anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and more. This database includes films, documentaries, interviews, performances, news programs and newsreels, field recordings, commercials, and raw footage.
Docuseek
A portal for independent, documentary, educational and social issue video and films. Search or browse by subject.
Filmakers Library Online
A collection of award-winning documentaries with relevance across disciplines - race and gender studies, human rights, globalization and global studies, multiculturalism, international relations, criminal justice, the environment, bioethics, health, political science and current events, psychology, arts, literature, and more. It presents points of view and historical and current experiences from diverse cultures and traditions worldwide.
Kanopy
Kanopy provides access to contemporary and classic feature films and documentaries, from the major Hollywood studios as well as independent and international filmmakers.
Swank Digital Campus
A collection of the 500 most requested Hollywood and feature films of all time.
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