Video Resources

Academic Earth
Thousands of video lectures from the world's top scholars. Includes the following subject areas: astronomy, biology, chemistry, computer science, economics, engineering, English, entrepreneurship, history, law, mathematics, medicine, philosophy, physics, political science, psychology and religion.
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American History in Video
See history in the making. There are 622 newsreels today and more are being added all the time. The only online source for the entire series of both United News and Universal Newsreel, this collection lets you see events as they happened and as they were packaged and interpreted by commentators of the day. Also included in this collection are 350 high-quality documentaries from The History Channel and other leading video producers.
  • Access restrictions: Available to SWOSU students, faculty, and staff on and off-campus.
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American Rhetoric
Access over 5000 full text, audio, and video versions of public speeches, sermons, legal proceedings, lectures, debates, interviews, other recorded media events.
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Biointeractive from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute
BioInteractive is a web-based collection of biology-focused teaching materials. The Holiday Lectures on Science is a set of four one-hour lectures presented each December that give students and teachers the opportunity to learn about cutting-edge biomedical research directly from some of the world’s leading scientists.
Counseling and Therapy in Video
This online collection is ideal for the subject areas of social work, psychology, education, and other helping professions. It includes hundreds of hours of streaming video content, led by leading psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, and academics in the U.S., Canada, and the U.K. The database includes therapy sessions, training videos, demonstrations, case consultations, lectures, discussions, and workshops plus dozens of discussion guides.
  • Access restrictions: Available to SWOSU students, faculty, and staff on and off-campus.
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Dance in Video
This resource provides streaming videos of over 250 dance productions and documentaries by the most influential performers and companies of the twentieth century. Providing the visual element necessary for appreciation and analysis, students and researchers can at last discover and revisit great performances and learn from the dancers, choreographers, and directors who have perfected the craft. Offering more than 500 hours of streaming video, the collection covers ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary, experimental, and improvisational dance, as well as forerunners of the forms and the pioneers of modern concert dance. Included are classic performances from top ballet companies; experimental works from up-and-coming dance troupes; documentaries by and about leading choreographers; videos on dance training; and other items covering a wide range of twentieth-century dance styles.
  • Access restrictions: Available to SWOSU students, faculty, and staff on and off-campus.
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Ethnographic Video Online
This resource provides hundreds of films about human culture and behavior. The collection covers every region of the world and features the work of many of the most influential documentary filmmakers, including interviews, previously unreleased raw footage, field notes, study guides, and more.
  • Access restrictions: Available to SWOSU students, faculty, and staff.
Films on Demand
FoD provides instant access to over 5,500 streaming educational videos covering a wide range of subject areas. You can watch these videos on any computer with high-speed Internet access. The library has the complete FoD collection, including Business & Economics, Health, Humanities & Social Sciences, and Sciences. Create a personal FoD user ID to save playlists with your favorite videos and video segments.
  • Access restrictions: Available to SWOSU students, faculty, and staff on and off-campus.
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INTELECOM Online
The user name for use of this streaming video database is: swosu and he password is dx1u0k8. A hosted and supported digital repository of academic video clips provides support for online, hybrid and face-to-face classes. The database includes the following subject areas: adult basic education, allied health, anatomy, biological sciences, business, civic education, earth sciences, economics, education, environmental studies, ethnic studies, family and consumer science, health, history, linguistics, oceanography, philosophy, physical education, physics, political science, psychology, religion, sociology, and urban studies. New content is added on an ongoing basis.
  • Access restrictions: Available to SWOSU students, faculty, and staff on and off-campus.
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MERLOT: Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning & Online Teaching
MERLOT is a leading edge, user-centered, searchable collection of peer reviewed and selected higher education, online learning materials, catalogued by registered members and a set of faculty development support services. MERLOT's vision is to be a premiere online community where faculty, staff, and students from around the world share their learning materials and pedagogy.
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Opera in Video
This resource offers more than 500 hours of streaming video. Classic performances from the top opera companies and documentaries on specific operas, composers, and companies cover the full range of operatic composition, from the Baroque to the twentieth century. Multiple performances and stagings worldwide of the major operas allow for analysis of stage design, vocal techniques, roles, and musical interpretation across time periods, opera houses, and conductors.
  • Access restrictions:Available to SWOSU students, faculty, and staff on and off campus.
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Oyez: U.S. Supreme Court Media
A multimedia archive devoted to the Supreme Court of the United States. It aims to be a complete and authoritative source for all audio recorded in the Court since the installation of a recording system in October, 1955. The Project also provides authoritative information on all justices and offers a virtual reality tour of portions of the Supreme Court building, including the chambers of some justices.
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ResearchChannel
ResearchChannel was founded by a consortium of leading research and academic institutions to share the valuable work of their researchers with the public. Explore more than 3,500 video titles available online in these subject areas: Arts and Humanities, Business and Economics, Computer Science and Engineering, Health and Medicine, K-12 and Education, Sciences, and Social Sciences.
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Teacher Tube
TeacherTube is a video sharing website similar to YouTube. It is designed to allow those in the educational industry, particularly teachers, to share educational resources. The site contains a mixture of classroom teaching resources and others designed to aid teacher training. A number of students have also uploaded videos that they have made as part of college courses. The website contains over 26,000 videos. The goal of TeacherTube is to provide an online community for sharing instructional videos.
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Theatre in Video
This resource contains more than 250 of the worlds most important plays, together with more than 100 video documentaries, online in streaming video. These definitive performances by leading actors and directors, have been painstakingly licensed from a wide range of copyright holders.
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VTC | Request an account
First-time users must request a VTC account. Use the Virtual Training Company's video tutorials to learn the latest tools and techniques in office productivity applications, programming, operating systems, digital media, web design, and software development.
  • Access restrictions: Available to SWOSU students, faculty, and staff on and off campus.
  • High speed internet connection required for video content.
  • Maximum number of simultaneous users: 15
YouTube EDU
Videos from over one hundred college and university partners.
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Yovisto
Yovisto is a worldwide video search engine for educational video content, including content from many countries and languages. Yovisto allows searching within videos. There are many other features like: tagging, adding comments, discussing, interaction with other users, uploading videos and organising your videos, etc. Each individual will need to set up a free account with yovisto.
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