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Ideas, Learning & Language

Education & learning

Education & learning sits within Ideas, Learning & Language. Compare ways of explaining, questioning, and communicating ideas across different subjects and traditions. This selection contains 73 catalog videos from 53 distinct channels. The examples below offer specific entry points into the subject, with their own vocabulary and scope, rather than a prescribed sequence of lessons.

Recurring catalog topics include education, learning, khan academy, veritasium, alan kay and education technology. These tags describe overlapping directions within the collection; an individual video may connect several of them. Recorded formats include comedy, commentary, course, demo, documentary, explainer, interview, lecture, music, other, talk and tutorial. Use those differences to choose between approaches to the subject and to compare how different contributors frame related questions.

“How to Speak”, listed under MIT OpenCourseWare, is cataloged as lecture. Patrick Winston's long-running MIT lecture on public speaking teaches heuristic rules for talks. It covers how to start, use time and place, boards, props and slides, and how to inform, persuade and…

“Confessions of a Converted Lecturer: Eric Mazur”, listed under UMBCtube, is cataloged as lecture. Harvard physicist Eric Mazur explains how he realized his students were memorizing rather than understanding, and how he changed his teaching. He presents peer instruction and data showing improved student performance.

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