Multimedia Resources

This speech archive presents audio clips of words that changed the world. Featured categories include "Presidential Speeches," "War Speeches," "Civil Rights Speeches," "Sports Speeches," and "Space Exploration Speeches."

Features audiobooks, MP3 downloads, podcasts, and videos focusing on topics like careers, medicine and health, teaching, law, science, and writing.

LibriVox provides free audiobooks for titles that are part of the public domain. Features a Podcast option.

Features a comprehensive collection of online educational media, including audiobooks, online courses, movies, language instruction materials, ebooks, and "Smart YouTube" (links to academically oriented YouTube videos). Click the link for "University - General" under the "Audio & Podcasts" heading to access "University & College Podcasts – Free Educational Podcasts."

Features a listing of free audiobooks available in different languages.

Features online courses and video lectures by professors from universities such as Berkeley, Harvard, MIT, Princeton, Stanford, and Yale.

Funded by the Annenberg Foundation, this site offers programs focusing on "teacher professional development and teacher resources across the curriculum." Although many resources are appropriate for the K-12 environment, you can browse by grade level, including "College/Adult" level. Free registration is required for first-time users.

"[Coursera] offer[s] high quality courses from the top universities, for free to everyone. [They] currently host courses from Princeton University, Stanford University, University of California, Berkeley, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, and University of Pennsylvania.

"EdX is a joint partnership between The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard University to offer online learning to millions of people around the world. EdX will offer Harvard and MIT classes online for free. Through this partnership, the institutions aim to extend their collective reach to build a global community of online learners and to improve education for everyone."

This site features a "classroom-recorded video lectures collection with more than 740+ courses, 18,000+ video lectures" from numerous universities around the world.

"MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) is a web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content," featuring "free lecture notes, exams, and videos." Click the link for "Audio/Video Courses" to access a list of courses with "substantial video and/or audio content."

"MITx will offer a portfolio of MIT [Massachusetts Institute of Technology] courses for free to a virtual community of learners around the world. It will also enhance the educational experience of its on-campus students, offering them online tools that supplement and enrich their classroom and laboratory experiences."

Features a comprehensive collection of online educational media, including audiobooks, online courses, movies, language instruction materials, ebooks, and "Smart YouTube" (links to academically oriented YouTube videos). Click the link for "University - General" under the "Audio & Podcasts" heading to access "University & College Podcasts – Free Educational Podcasts."

"UCTV explores a broad spectrum of subjects of interest to a general audience, including science, health and medicine, public affairs, humanities, arts and music, education issues" and more. "In addition, UCTV's Teacher's P.E.T. reaches out to K-12 educators with its website teeming with standards-aligned programming, and its Med Ed Hour is dedicated to providing up-to-date research and vital information to health care professionals."

Produced by the University of Texas at Austin, "World Lecture Hall publishes links to pages created by faculty worldwide who are using the Web to deliver course materials in any language."

This library of more than 1,400 video clips enables students to "experience America's wilderness firsthand."

Includes videos such as Big Mac: Inside the McDonald's Empire, Coca Cola: The Real Story Behind the Real Thing, and The eBay Effect.

Search CNBC Video Gallery for videos about specific companies and products such as Coca Cola and Levi's.

Presents videos relating to up-to-the-moment breaking news stories. Browsable video categories cover topics such as "World," "Politics," "Justice," "Tech," and "Health."

"Through an extensive offering of documentaries, Edutopia video is a catalyst for innovation by helping educators and parents, as well as business and community leaders, see and understand pioneering best practices."

Features "the best movies of the United States Government, from training films to history, from our national parks to the U.S. Fire Academy and the Postal Inspectors, all of these fine flix are available for reuse without any restrictions whatsoever."

This long-running documentary series from PBS features investigative journalism "covering the scope and complexity of the human experience." The topics are often controversial, and the videos challenge students’ critical thinking skills.

Includes history videos focusing on subjects like The States, Dinosaurs, Ancient Rome, Egypt, and more.

"Check out the latest videos from Kean University, including official announcements, athletic coverage, student-produced work and the latest news and interviews with the Kean community and the distinguished guests we often welcome."

"The Khan Academy is a not-for-profit organization with the mission of providing a high quality education to anyone, anywhere." This site features "1400+ videos on YouTube covering everything from basic arithmetic and algebra to differential equations, physics, chemistry, biology and finance..."

This site offers a wide-ranging collection of Webcasts browsable by subject. Additionally, the "National Book Festival" section features Webcast and podcast presentations that showcase "authors from National Book Festivals in Washington over the years," and the "YouTube Pilot" section "offer selections of early motion pictures, along with recordings of events, lectures and concerts."

"METAL (Mathematics for Economics: enhancing Teaching and Learning) provides lecturers and students with a selection of free learning resources designed to engage Level 1 students more fully and enthusiastically in mathematics for economics. [The site includes] five interactive video units (covering ten units of study) using streaming video and animation to relate mathematical concepts to the field of economics."

"MERLOT is a free and open online community of resources designed primarily for faculty, staff and students of higher education from around the world to share their learning materials and pedagogy. MERLOT is a leading edge, user-centered, collection of peer reviewed higher education, online learning materials, catalogued by registered members and a set of faculty development support services."

"MIT World is a free and open site that provides on demand video of significant public events at MIT....Characteristically, the MIT World videos are scholarly, relevant, and accessible to a wide audience. Content may include the latest discoveries in science, engineering, architecture, humanities, technology, and management, as well as technical seminars in emerging fields and presentations that illuminate trends in society, the arts, and humanities."

"Since its inception in 1958, NASA has accomplished many great scientific and technological feats in air and space. NASA remains a leading force in scientific research and in stimulating public interest in aerospace exploration, as well as science and technology in general." This site provides videos, NASA TV, and podcasts on space missions, the International Space Station, solar dynamics, views of space, data collection in space, and much more.

"The mission of the National Gallery of Art is to serve the United States of America in a national role by preserving, collecting, exhibiting, and fostering the understanding of works of art, at the highest possible museum and scholarly standards. Stay up to date with video podcasts from the National Gallery of Art, which include documentary excerpts, lectures, and other films about the Gallery's history, exhibitions, and collections."

This site features video content focusing on "animals, nature, history, science, engineering, people, places, and exploration."

This site offers "streaming videos that feature interviews with scientists behind the research and analysis" presented in select articles in the journal Nature.

This site features select programs from NOVA, the PBS science documentary series. The programs cover wide-ranging science and technology topics and highlight the work of people involved in scientific pursuits.

Features a comprehensive collection of online educational media, including audiobooks, online courses, movies, language instruction materials, ebooks, and "Smart YouTube" (links to academically oriented YouTube videos). Click the link for "University - General" under the "Audio & Podcasts" heading to access "University & College Podcasts – Free Educational Podcasts."

This Web site features "national programming and locally produced shows" from the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). Provides coverage of topics including "Arts & Literature," "Culture," "Health & Wellness," "History," "News & Public Affairs," "Performing Arts," and "Science.”

ScienceHack is a "video search engine for science videos." Each video featured has been "screened by a scientist to verify its accuracy and quality."

The Archive "is a major repository for moving images pertaining to the Holocaust and related topics in European history. The collection currently comprises 985 hours of archival footage....The majority of the materials originated between 1930 and 1945." Numerous videos are available for online viewing through the Archive's searchable catalog.

"UCTV explores a broad spectrum of subjects of interest to a general audience, including science, health and medicine, public affairs, humanities, arts and music, education issues" and more. "In addition, UCTV's Teacher's P.E.T. reaches out to K-12 educators with its website teeming with standards-aligned programming, and its Med Ed Hour is dedicated to providing up-to-date research and vital information to health care professionals."