New Content Roundup: Fall 2023
As we step into the crisp, refreshing days of fall, Boclips is delighted to highlight a selection of new partnerships. E...
New Features Roundup: User Management Area and Content Alignments
We are excited to announce new updates to the CourseSpark web app that are designed to enhance your user experience and ...
Introducing AI-Powered Learning Outcomes, Assessment Questions & our AI Policy
We are excited to announce an thrilling enhancement to your Boclips experience! We have just released our first official...
The Ultimate Checklist for Procuring Educational Content: A Recipe for Success
Ah, procuring educational content. It's a lot like gathering ingredients for a five-course meal. You can't just toss a b...
New Content Roundup: Summer 2023
As the temperatures rise, so does our commitment to bringing you the freshest and most engaging resources for learners o...
Introducing Boclips’ New Look: Same Mission, Fresh Design
We are thrilled to announce a new look that aligns with our mission of making education captivating for every kind of le...
New Content Roundup: February Through March 2023
As we awaken from the slumber of winter, Boclips is excited to showcase some of our new partnerships that embody the spi...
New Boclips Content Partner: The Guardian
We are thrilled to announce a new partnership between Boclips and The Guardian, two leading companies in the field of ed...
5 Benefits of Using Educational Video in Your OpenStax Courses
OpenStax is a widely-used resource in higher education, providing students with much-needed access to high-quality, peer...
New Content Roundup: December Through January 2023
Ah, the new year. It often brings up feelings of excitement and thoughts of hope and possibility. That’s exactly what we...
New Content Roundup: November 2022
With Thanksgiving, Bonfire Night, Diwali, and the release of the John Lewis advert to mark the beginning of the holiday ...
Content Creator Spotlight: Foundry
Cue Justin Timberlake, because Boclips is bringing our Content Creator Spotlight back. Every month, we’ll be featuring o...
New Content Roundup: September 2022
September has been a month of travel for Boclips, from the DIDAC 2022 conference in India to the GESS Oman Summit, and s...
New Content Roundup: August 2022
Before Labor Day weekend, Boclips’ Content team spent the last few weeks of summer rounding out CourseSpark’s newest vid...
Introducing CourseSpark
Discover beautifully curated, curriculum-aligned educational videos and podcasts from world-class content creators on co...
How to Leverage Primary Sources in Instructional Design
Think of an important event in history that occurred during your lifetime. You probably remember watching the news on TV...
New Content Roundup: July 2022
July tends to be a slow time in education (summer holidays, we're looking at you). This past month, though, the team at ...
Do Current Events Belong in Core Curriculum?
When presented with the question above, any educator may answer with something like “In theory, yes, current events belo...
New Content Roundup: June 2022
While Boclips’ Content team recovered from a month of conferences (hello, VidCon, ISTE, and NCSC!) and prepared for a lo...
Best Practices to Support Multimodal Learning: 5 Tips to Follow
Multimodal learning engages learners, makes learning more effective, and also improves accessibility. Any educator would...
5 practical ways to leverage multimedia in courseware
As recently as twenty years ago, university and ongoing education courses relied on lectures and textbooks alone. Today’...
New Content Roundup: May 2022
The Content team at Boclips is gearing up to attend VidCon in June. In preparation, they’ve been building up our content...
Top 3 Takeaways from the 2022 ASU+GSV Summit
Inspirational, innovative, and provocative are just a few words to describe the recent ASU+GSV 2022 Summit. With a theme...
A User's Guide to Multimodal Learning
Which would be more memorable for you, reading a section of a textbook about an event in history, or watching a musical ...
Are Applications of Learning Styles Theory Effective?
Learning styles are viewed in a positive light by many people. You may agree that, at worst, learning styles are harmles...
New Content Roundup: April 2022
This April, Boclips’ Content team didn’t just host its first annual Boclips Creator Conference. The team also added a to...
Have you been thinking all wrong about learning styles?
If you work in the field of education, then you’ve probably heard of learning styles. The idea that some people learn be...
4 Things All Curriculum Designers Should Know about Learning Styles
The concept of learning styles is pervasive in the field of education. Nearly 80% of educators reported that they used o...
4 Ways Instructional Designers Can Use Educational Videos Effectively
If you’re an instructional designer, you are very familiar with video content. You may have designed entire courses arou...
New Content Roundup: March 2022
Boclips’ educational video library has grown this month. For a sampling of some of the new, curriculum-aligned education...
What is accessibility in education? Conversations to start at ASU+GSV
For anyone with strong vision: Can you imagine trying to navigate the internet as a person who is legally blind? Some we...
5 speakers you don't want to miss at ASU+GSV Summit
This year’s ASU+GSV Summit theme, “Ed on the Edge,” could be interpreted as its authors intended: education on the brink...
New Content Roundup: February 2022
Boclips’ Content team has worked away all of February to ingest new, curriculum-aligned video content for K–12 and highe...
Digital Learning Dialogues: How to make your curriculum accessible
Natalie, Boclips Account Manager and education accessibility advocate, discusses what instructional designers can do to ...
How to Use Video in Synchronous and Asynchronous Learning Design
While the efficacy of video for delivering content to students, increasing engagement, and providing variety to coursewa...
Hybrid Learning is Here to Stay: How Video Can Support Students Anywhere
There is no doubt that the past year or so has been tough all around. For a vast number of us, our lives have been turne...
Celebrating Women's History Month with Videos that #ChooseToChallenge
Many of us already celebrate International Women’s Day on March 8th, but did you know that the whole month of March is W...
What's the Optimum Length for an Instructional Video? And Why is it Important?
When choosing a video to include in your course, there are several factors you’ll want to take into consideration.
Celebrating International Day of Women and Girls in Science
For the past five years, February 11th has been set aside to celebrate the accomplishments of women and girls in the fie...
The Challenges of Using Real-World Content in Online Courses
The benefits of integrating video into educational courseware have been well-documented. According to Kaltura's 6th Annu...
What is Flipped Learning and Why Does it Matter for Courseware?
With so many teaching models emerging - blended, hybrid, and flipped learning, to name a few- it can be difficult to pin...
International Day of Education 2021
For many students, teachers, and educational professionals around the world, learning looks very different to how it did...
What to Look for in Educational Videos for Your Courseware
With the global e-Learning market expected to grow to $275 billion by 2022, according to a report by Orbis Research, and...
New For 2021: Discover Our Latest Content Partners
With the new year comes new videos! We're pleased to introduce content partners covering Marketing, World Languages, Com...
2020 Roundup: Top Content of the Year
2020 has been a year of challenge and change: people all over the world have quickly adapted to new ways of living, work...
Inspiring Videos for Arabic Language Day
Arabic is spoken by 422 million people, making it one of the most widely spoken languages in the world today. World Arab...
Content Partner Spotlight: Wonderscape Education
This month we’re featuring Wonderscape Education in our content partner spotlight. Wonderscape is one of the best-known ...
Increasing Courseware Interactivity with Video
Instructional designers work hard to create learning environments and experiences that help learners to acquire knowledg...
4 Engaging Videos for Your English Course
Studying English language arts opens the door to success in every other subject. Of course, ELA allows students to maste...
Content Partner Spotlight: Visual Learning Systems
For November’s content partner spotlight, we’ll be taking a closer look at some top videos from Visual Learning Systems....
Celebrating World Philosophy Day with Video
“To or not to be” is actually NOT the question! The question is how are YOU celebrating World Philosophy Day? Philosophy...
The Benefits of Video for Students with Dyslexia
Video can be a powerful and engaging teaching tool. But did you know that it can also be used to help students who have ...
Bring Economics to Life with Video
Studying economics allows learners to gain a better understanding of the world around them, on a personal, local and glo...
Meet the Teachers of Boclips
This year has been challenging so we want to take a moment to recognize teachers who work tirelessly to educate the next...
5 Videos to Spark Curiosity for Psychology
Psychology is a fascinating subject. By developing an awareness of human beings, our behavior, language, and motivations...
Using Video to Create Courseware that Supports Flipped Learning
Have you ever heard of flipped or inverted classrooms? This concept has been gaining popularity amongst teachers and stu...
Using Video to Engage Students in Literacy
Today is International Literacy Day and this year the theme is literacy learning through the Coronavirus crisis and beyo...
Content Partner Spotlight: Bloomberg
Every month we’ll be sharing some of our favorite videos from our most popular content partners. First up is Bloomberg, ...
6 Videos for Engaging Science Courses
A good science course explains complex concepts in simple terms, allows learners to explore real world examples, and spa...
Celebrating International Youth Day with Inspirational Videos
The theme of International Youth Day 2020 is youth engagement for global action. This year, we’re celebrating the work t...
Bringing Extra and Co-curricular Subjects to the Virtual Classroom
Educators learned something during spring’s sudden transition to remote learning: we simply can’t cover the same amount ...
Videos are the Best Place to get Creative Inspiration in the Classroom
Design thinking is at the core of every good product, idea, or scientific breakthrough. Any new science graduate looking...
Enhance Instruction for Students with Learning Disabilities with Video
Multimedia is seeing an explosive increase in the classroom. We’re in an age where learning has become gamified and scre...
Project-Based Learning is an Opportunity in Equity
When it comes to teaching collaboration and inquiry skills, many educators face a tough hurdle: the ever-present pressur...
A Guide to Licensing Educational Videos for Your Online Courseware
These days, videos are everywhere. Social media, mobile apps, streaming platforms, blogs—wherever there’s a screen, vide...
What does Equity in Gifted Education Look Like?
Gifted students are pupils who demonstrate high achievement in an artistic, creative, leadership, or academic capacity. ...
Top Ways Videos Can Be Used in Higher Education
In the not-so-distant past, higher education lectures were almost entirely instructor-led with a heavy focus on written ...
Why Boclips Has Been Essential in our Pivot to Online Learning
COVID-19 changed education in an instant. ProQuest customers were drastically affected by global shutdowns and had to co...
Innovating Education With APIs
Modern technology has had a tremendous impact on our society and accelerated different service sectors in ways that were...
Make Math Magnificent with Boclips for Teachers
Engagement with your students isn’t always easy if you teach some of the core K12 subjects like reading, writing, and ma...
Why Video is the #1 Digital Tool Teachers Use in the Classroom
The use of video in education isn’t what it was. It was once considered a rare treat for students when their teachers wo...
5 Videos for Your Global Public Health Lesson Plans
When we think about the ways in which our world is connected, systems of global trade, international travel, or economic...
Video Learning Strategies to Try in Your Lessons
Let’s talk about passive and active learning in the context of video-driven lessons. As teachers, every minute in the le...
3 Ways to Use Video in Your Virtual Learning Platform
Watch this short video hosted by Ed Kendall of Boclips to learn how you can use video in your virtual learning platforms...
Effective Remote Learning Begins with Digital Literacy
Set the stage for digital citizenship with a community contract Teachers are scrambling to respond to the sudden push to...
How to Use Boclips for Teachers to Save You Time When You Use Video in The Classroom
Teachers are busy people. There’s the constant balancing act of lesson-planning, grading papers, meeting with parents an...
Where Video Fits into My Kids’ Distance Learning Experience
As an unprecedented incident, few stakeholders were adequately prepared for the non-school-based education that’s been r...
Boclips for Teachers: A YouTube Alternative for Schools
YouTube may be free, popular, and familiar—that's why many teachers use it. But YouTube also lacks security, reliability...
4 Tips for Using Video to Differentiate the Learning Product
In previous posts, we’ve covered how to use video to differentiate learning content and process. These are aspects of di...
Proven Ways to Improve Student Learning with Video
Repeated studies have shown that quality educational videos of appropriate lengths are one of the most effective and uni...
Poetry Video Collections and Lesson Plan Starters to Help You Teach National Poetry Month
If you listen close enough, you just might hear a sonnet on the spring breeze. That’s right, it’s National Poetry Month!...
8 Tips for Online Distance Learning
Thousands of teachers are making the shift to online digital learning virtually overnight. This is a tricky situation as...
Best practices for sharing videos with students
If you're like most teachers, you're already using some kind of video platform to share videos with students. Whether yo...
6 Ideas for Integrating Video in Virtual Learning
No two virtual learning environments are the same, but whatever tools or systems teachers rely on to structure their cou...
Enhancing Instruction with Videos in the Classroom
Students today access a variety of media as part of their daily lives, and thanks to the ubiquitous use of such sites as...
Video: An Integral Part of 21st Century Blended Learning
The latter decade of the 20th century saw a major shift in K-12 and higher education from one-size-fits-all instruction ...
Short Educational Videos Are Better for Learning
It’s no wonder video streaming platforms have become the most used digital tool in classrooms today. [1] Educational vid...
A Guide to Differentiating the Learning Process with Video
Differentiation is at the forefront of every teacher’s mind. Each student is different and needs to be given the opportu...
Women's History with Boclips
March is Women’s History Month and to celebrate, we’re helping you to bring women’s history to life across the curriculu...
Top Stats You Should Know About Using Video in the Classroom
Teachers have been integrating video into their classroom instruction since the first educational VCR tapes came to be a...
New Videos on Boclips This Month!
Boclips’ library of content is always growing and we’re adding videos that cover subjects across the curriculum. In addi...
Using Video to Teach Mental Health and Wellbeing
According to the National Alliance on Mental Health, 1 in 6 U.S. youth aged 6-17 experience a mental health disorder eac...
3 Tips for Differentiating Your Lesson Content with Video
What is differentiation? Think of it as a class road trip: If each student were handed a map of the United States and to...
Why Publishers Don’t Use More Video in their Courseware
Publishers and courseware creators face a great deal of complexity when seeking to incorporate more video content into t...
The Dangers of Using YouTube in the Classroom
The importance of using video in the classroom can’t be overstated. Students are so accustomed to engaging with media-ri...
Why Courseware Creators are Paying Attention to Video
Videos aren't a new content type for academic publishers. They’ve produced and provided video content for years for educ...
Bring Black History to Your Classroom with Video
February is Black History Month and Boclips for Teachers has resources to incorporate Black history videos into any less...
SAMR and Video Meet in the 21st Century Classroom
This National Tech Day, a plethora of new apps, tools, and services are knocking on the classroom door. The 21st-century...
What does the Boclips name mean?
Curious about where the Boclips name comes from? In celebration of Bodhi Day in the Chinese lunar calendar, we're taking...
Video-Focussed Lesson Guides with Boclips for Teachers
Now more than ever, lesson planning prep takes time. With ever-changing standards and curriculums as well as the paradig...
How do we select our content for Boclips?
As an ex-teacher, it’s really important to me that videos work well for all the students in my class, if and when I’m go...
The Challenges of Creating Curriculum With Educational Video
With 63% of teachers using technology with their students on a daily basis and video being the most common type of digit...
Using Boclips for Teachers with Google Classroom: A Tutorial
If you’re using Google Classroom in your school or district, then you’ll love the Google Classroom share button availabl...
Top 3 Takeaways from ISTE
The International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) Conference in Philadelphia has come and gone. In the afterm...
Easily Discover Age-Appropriate Videos with Boclips
Different age levels require teachers to explain concepts with varying degrees of detail, language complexity and pace. ...
Find Relevant Educational Videos Faster with Boclips
Finding relevant and quality educational videos to use in your curriculum or classroom can be a challenge. It takes time...
Explore Some of Our Latest Content Partners
Boclips is built on high quality educational video from some of the most globally respected educational brands. Our part...
Challenges Teachers Face Finding and Using Classroom Videos
There’s nothing quite like seeing a concept finally “click” for a student. Teachers work hard every day to spark that le...
Using Boclips With Your Students is as Easy as 3-2-1
Pairing the video content you find on Boclips for Teachers with best practices is a good way to engage students in learn...
Five Verified Benefits of Educational Video
Part of being a teacher is developing lessons to reach students where they are. With students spending six to nine hours...
3 Ways to Use Video in Your Media Literacy Lesson Plans
Fewer than half of teenagers interviewed in a study by Common Sense Media felt that they were able to identify a fake ne...
4 Ways Teachers Use Video to Engage and Improve Learning
Keeping students engaged in a lesson can be challenging. With shortening student attention spans and limited time for te...
Women's History Month
March is Women’s History Month and we are excited to be able recognise and celebrate women’s contributions to all aspect...
Beta Feedback Matters
We're happy to share that the feedback generated from teachers in the beta version of boclips for Teachers has been fant...
Black History Month
We're excited to introduce you to a new content partner! Red Rock Films specializes in developing expertly researched ed...
Top 5 Takeaways from BETT 2019
1. Augmented and Virtual Reality You didn’t have to walk far before you came across an excited crowd of educators waitin...
Introduce a Topic
Often, when I’m preparing for the start of a new unit or important section, I turn to videos as a means of engaging my s...
Learn by Seeing
There are many diverse learning styles that educators need to reach. It is agreed upon by numerous research studies that...
Spark a Debate
Using Boclips in the classroom has been very beneficial in sparking debates and getting students involved in classroom d...
Edchat Interactive
We love to learn and grow, and we know that the teachers and course developers we work with love to learn and grow as we...
3 New Content Partners Now on Boclips
We're excited to bring you three new YouTube partners: Blockchain Central, Looking Glass Universe and After Skool. These...
5 Ways to Appsmash Flipgrid and Boclips
I am flipping over Flipgrid with Boclips! I want to share some of the #flipgridfever and this is a fever you will want t...
New on Boclips: Standards-Aligned Videos from Learnzillion
Boclips is always growing and we are very excited to announce our newest content partner, Learnzillion, the curriculum r...
Go Beyond the Classroom With New Documentary Shorts
Documentary material is perfect for presenting new perspectives and introducing students to people and places that they ...
Minecraft and boclips
A neat way to use Boclips is to let my students explore places that they will probably never get to go in real life. I m...
3 Ways to Use Impossible Field Trips for Elementary
Primary classrooms are filled with little learners who are eager to explore and are amazed by the wonders of the world. ...
Three New YouTube Channels Now Available On Boclips
Linguist? Historian? Cultural Enthusiast? You'll be as excited as we are to discover videos from our three new YouTube p...
Launch Primary Students into STEM with New Content
Boclips is always growing and we are excited to introduce three new partners bringing specialized STEM content for prima...
June YouTube Partner Updates
We are excited to announce four new YouTube partners for Science, Math and Humanities for K-12 students. Engage learners...
Boclips Brings the Best of YouTube EDU to its Video Platform
Perhaps as an educator, you’ve noticed the same thing we have at Boclips, that the traditional model of teaching is bein...
Boclips adds TED content with ‘Ideas Worth Spreading’
The world’s largest video library for education now includes TED Talks and TED-Ed video content.
Boclips boosts its instructional content with new libraries
The Boclips video library continues to grow adding thousands more videos, produced specifically for education. 21st Sept...
Boclips fights Fake News, adding three new trusted sources
Boclips continues to fight Fake News, adding three new respected and trusted sources: Boclips secures PBS NewsHour, Stor...
Boclips partners with Nahdet Misr and Iesha Learning
Boclips, the world’s largest video library for education, is happy to announce partnerships with two new content provide...
Boclips partners with the IAI and Siren Films
London-based Knowledgemotion, the company behind boclips the world’s largest video library for education, has added new ...
Do We Miss Trust?
Media awareness is at its highest. At any point in the day you can find a deluge of news reports and clips across any pl...
Boclips further expands its science collection
Boclips - the world’s largest video library for education - has partnered with a further three new content libraries to ...
Knowledgemotion expands into China
XinHua, China’s official news agency, partners with Knowledgemotion to exclusively distribute its video content via Bocl...
Boclips partners with Britlish
Boclips - the world's largest video library for education - has partnered with Britlish adding spoken English animations...
Blended learning - the reboot
The proliferation of social media and technology has changed the way educators teach, students learn, and teachers and s...
Boclips partners with seven more content providers
New content partnerships expand the curriculum-aligned video library to more than 1.85 million high quality videos and m...
Why Boclips could be the 'Netflix for education'
Looking for tv programs and movies online, the average viewer is faced with a choice. Whilst subscription sites offer ho...