Today, 240 videos from TED Ed were made available in the Open Educational Resources collection in the NCLOR. TED-Ed is TED’s (Technology, Entertainment and Design) youth and education initiative. Most of the resources made available are TED-Ed Originals. These resources are short, award-winning animated videos about ideas that spark the curiosity of learners. The videos also include quizzes, more detailed information, and a discussion area under the: Think, Dig Deeper, Discuss links respectively. Some of the subjects included in this series are: mathematics, biology, history, literature, and health.
“TED-Ed’s mission is to spark and celebrate the ideas of teachers and students around the world. TED-Ed’s supports learning by producing a growing library of original animated videos , provides an international platform for teachers to create their own interactive lessons, helps curious students around the globe bring TED to their schools and gain presentation literacy skills, celebrates innovative leadership within TED-Ed’s global network of over 250,000 teachers. TED-Ed has grown from an idea worth spreading into an award-winning education platform that serves millions of teachers and students around the world every week.” – Source About TED Ed, (https://ed.ted.com/about)
Example: “Do schools kill creativity?”, Sir Ken Robinson, February 2006 at TED2006
All TED Ed content available in this series is free to use and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License 
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The NCCCS courses that these resources may supplement are; ANT220, ANT230, ART111, ART114, ART115, BIO094, BIO110, BIO120, BIO230, BUS225, CHM090, CJC111, CJC231, CUL150, DAN110, EGR110, EMS3000, ENG101, ENG131, ENV120, HIS111, HIS112, HIS115, HIS132, HIS145, HIS211, HIS212, HIS221, HPT3100, HUM120, MAT141, MAT3713, MSC160, MSC172, MUS110, PHI210, PHI215, PHM265, PHY101, POL110, PSY101, and REL110.
Accessibility Statement: All of the videos and/or learning objects in this series are closed captioned or have links to the text version of the video narration on of each activity.
To access these resources, you can do any of the following:
- Since these resources are open, you can access the series via Guest Access here: TED Ed or log into the NCLOR and click on the More button on the left menu bar. Then click the Resource Series link and then click the TED Ed link.
- If you are K-14 faculty, you can add the links to the resources directly to your LMS based course. (learn how)
