Use These Free High Quality Educational Videos in Your Courses (Awesome OER)
Let's be honest, creating quality educational content is difficult and time consuming. Making sure that your content conforms to accessibility best practices is also labor intensive but urgent work that benefits every learner.
Simplify your workflow by using these free high quality, pedagogically sound, accessible, informative and entertaining video lessons from Crash Course.
Crash Course provides 45 courses (and counting) in the behavioral and social sciences, humanities, natural sciences and many other topics. The content is produced and pitched at a university level that is also suitable for more advanced high school courses.
Crash Course's YouTube videos have been viewed hundreds of millions of times because they feature charming presenters, engaging topics, thoughtfully designed lectures and human authored closed captions.
Crash Course is the perfect compliment to the content you already use or create. Best of all, it's a free, open educational resource (OER) as well.
Pro Tip: Avoid ads by using the YouTube embed code to add the video to your learning management system (LMS).
Our Favorite Crash Course Classes
Crash Course offers dozens of courses. Each course consists of individual topic lessons. Here are some of Socratic Digital’s favorites courses:
Find dozens of other free, fun and high quality offerings at the Crash Course page on YouTube.
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Crash Course Business Soft Skills
Socratic Digital loves episode 4, How to Speak with Confidence for a variety of courses or modules. This particular video would be great for a speech class, a module on Dramaturgy or a unit on interpersonal communication.