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  1. Global Lab Podcast Streaming

    Link
    https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-global-lab/id445573792?mt=2
    Category
    Science and Technology, Social Sciences
    Subject
    Computing, Development Studies, Geography, Information Studies, Law, Mathematics, Social Studies, Technology
    Medium
    Film/Video, Radio/Sound
    Type of resource
    Podcasting, Streaming/Download

    Produced by the Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at UCL, this series of podcasts considers the impact of technology on cities and global connectivity. Drawing on the expertise of mathematicians, information scientists, lawyers, digital humanities researchers and museum curators amongst others, the podcast, which follows a magazine format, looks at how technology affects all our lives, but is of particular interest for those interested in urban analysis and social complexity.

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  2. Namathis Streaming

    Link
    http://en.namathis.com/
    Category
    Arts and Humanities, Bio-Medical, Science and Technology, Social Sciences
    Subject
    Business Studies, Computing, General Science, Languages, Mathematics
    Medium
    Film/Video
    Type of resource
    Streaming/Download

    This site gathers together over 10,000 educational videos from the internet: 2,000 in English, 8,000 in Spanish and 800 in Portuguese. Maths, Computing and Science are particularly well represented. Inactive as of December 2013.

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  3. DIOMEDES Streaming

    Link
    http://www.holografika.com/R-D-Projects/DIOMEDES.html
    Category
    Science and Technology
    Subject
    Computing, Media Studies, Technology
    Medium
    Film/Video
    Type of resource
    Streaming/Download, Technology

    DIOMEDES (DIstribution Of Multi-view Entertainment using content aware DElivery Systems) is an EU funded project to investigate and demonstrate new techniques for the compression and delivery of 3D immersive entertainment for home viewing. A collaboration led by the University of Surrey, the project involves academic institutions, research bodies and the television industry. The website features a number of videos explaining the background to the initiative and demonstrating how 3D media capture works.

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  4. Khan Academy Streaming

    Link
    https://www.khanacademy.org/
    Category
    Arts and Humanities, Science and Technology
    Subject
    Art, Biology, Chemistry, Computing, Economics, Engineering, General Science, History, Mathematics, Music, Physics
    Medium
    Film/Video
    Type of resource
    Courses, Streaming/Download

    Offering over 3,000 free courses, consisting of video lectures and tutorials stored on YouTube, this website, the brainchild of MIT and Harvard Business School Graduate, Salman Khan, claims to be at the vanguard of education’s digital future, along with other websites like Coursera, and Udacity, proferring a model of learning based on Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs). The Khan Academy offers largely courses in Maths, Science, which includes Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Cosmology and Astronomy, Electrical Engineering, Health and Medicine, Computing, Economics & Finance, and Arts & Humanities, with individual section on Grammar, World History, Art History and Music.

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  5. Chrome Web Lab Streaming

    Link
    http://www.chromeweblab.com/
    Category
    Science and Technology
    Subject
    Computing, General Science, Technology
    Medium
    Film/Video
    Type of resource
    Streaming/Download

    A joint project between the Science Museum and Google Chrome, Web Lab consists of five interactive experiments, each designed to illustrate a particular aspect of Internet technology. The interactive nature of the exhibition - which ranges from Universal Orchestra (an eight piece robotic orchestra designed to show the collaborative potential of the Internet), to Sketchbots, in which a robotic arm sketches portraits of users in sand - aims to educate users about web technology while simultaneously illustrating, in a creative, stylish and stimulating way, its potential applications. The site features live, 24-hour streaming of the experiments as well as explanatory videos describing the technology behind each experiment.

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  6. How Stuff Works Streaming

    Link
    https://www.howstuffworks.com/
    Category
    Arts and Humanities, Bio-Medical, Science and Technology
    Subject
    Archaeology, Biology, Computing, Engineering, General Science, Nature, Technology
    Medium
    Film/Video, Radio/Sound
    Type of resource
    Blogs, Podcasting, Streaming/Download

    The brainchild of former North Carolina State University professor Marshall Brain, this site uses various media, including podcasts and videos, to explain how things work. It is essentially a popular science site but contains a great deal of high quality educational content and has now expanded to cover non-science subjects (see for example How Nepotism Works). Searching is made easier by a clear interface in which categories with their various subdivisions are simply displayed: the Engineering Videos page, for example, features categories such as Robotics, Buildings and Structures, Materials Science. The site’s videos and podcasts are supplemented by a number of blogs.

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  7. Futurity Streaming

    Link
    https://www.futurity.org/
    Category
    Bio-Medical, Science and Technology, Social Sciences
    Subject
    Astronomy, Biology, Botany, Chemistry, Computing, Environmental Studies, General Science, Genetics, Geography, Geology, Nature, Physics, Technology
    Medium
    Film/Video
    Type of resource
    Update

    This website brings together news of the latest science research from universities in the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada and the USA. There are four main categories: Earth and the Environment; Health & Medicine; Science & Technology and Society & Culture. Most of the news consists of articles illustrated with still photographs but some moving imagery is used, as in this article which looks at how quickly can glaciers grow (and melt)?, using a study of the prehistoric activity of Baffin Island’s glaciers with a view to developing accurate models to predict how climate change in the future will affect glaciers and ice sheets.

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  8. Coursera Streaming

    Link
    https://www.coursera.org/
    Category
    Arts and Humanities, Bio-Medical, Science and Technology, Social Sciences
    Subject
    Biology, Business Studies, Computing, Economics, Education, History, Literature, Mathematics, Medicine, Physics, Social Studies
    Medium
    Film/Video
    Type of resource
    Courses, Streaming/Download

    Coursera describes itself as a "social entrepreneurship company that partners with the top universities in the world to offer courses online for anyone to take, for free". Among the institutions offering courses are Stanford, the University of Pennsylvania, University of California, Berkeley and the University of Toronto. More recently the University of California, San Francisco, Edinburgh University and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Lausanne have joined up to contribute to a list of 116 courses across sixteen categories including computer science, biology, education, literature, medicine, economics, mathematics and other disciplines. None of the classes counts as credit towards degrees at the participating institutions but students do receive certificates for completing their studies. The site includes a pedagogy page which explains the pedagogical foundations on which the platform is built, detailing its extensive use of interactive exercises, quizzes and ‘mastery learning’.

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  9. Open Culture Streaming

    Link
    http://www.openculture.com/
    Category
    Arts and Humanities, Science and Technology
    Subject
    Astronomy, Biology, Computing, Engineering, Film Studies, Geography, History, Languages, Literature, Mathematics, Physics, Politics and Government, Psychology
    Medium
    Film/Video
    Type of resource
    Podcasting, Streaming/Download, Video Sources, Web Links

    Open Culture boasts that it offers "the best free cultural & educational media on the web" and their site does a lot to live up to that claim, providing access to a large number of free educational resources, including online courses, language lessons, films and audiobooks. More than simply a list of links, Open Culture is divided into various sections which provide users with a variety of different approaches to navigating the web’s cultural and educational resources, such as a section called 125 Great Science Videos, which is a selective list of films, sub-divided into narrower scientific headings such as Technology & Mathematics, Environment, Geology and & Ecology, Physics, Astronomy & Space Travel etc. Another useful section of the site is a round-up of Intelligent YouTube Channels, which does a good job of sorting the wheat from the chaff and includes a list of universities which have collections of material on YouTube, offering brief comments on each site.

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  10. Learner’s TV Streaming

    Link
    https://learnerstv.org/animations
    Category
    Bio-Medical, Science and Technology
    Subject
    Astronomy, Biology, Business Studies, Chemistry, Computing, Dentistry, Economics, Engineering, General Science, Languages, Law, Literature, Mathematics, Medicine, Physics, Psychiatry, Technology
    Medium
    Film/Video, Radio/Sound
    Type of resource
    Streaming/Download

    A vast and useful site providing free downloadable video and audio lectures of entire courses from respected academic institutions from around the world including MIT, Stanford and Yale. The site is science-oriented but covers some of the Humanities too, ranging across the fields of Biology, Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Computer Science, Engineering, Medicine, Management and Accounting, Dentistry, Nursing, Psychology, History, Language courses, Literature, Law, Economics, Philosophy, Astronomy and Political Science. Most of the materials offered are licensed by the respective institutes under a Creative Commons licence. One of the more innovative aspects of Learner’s TV is the provision of animations for certain science subjects to help students visualise difficult or abstract concepts.

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