Multidisciplinary Video Collection
STREAMING VIDEO SERVICES
Academic Video Online and Films on Demand Education Collection are the streaming video services the Library licenses for the University's use. There are links to them below, with descriptions of their contents.
Also provided further below are links to and descriptions of the numerous subject subsets of Academic Video Online that provide streaming videos that support disciplines and curricula. All these entries also appear on the Research Services by Subject page.
If you want to embed links in your course pages, please use these links; they will invoke authentication.
- Academic Video Online: AVON This link opens in a new windowAcademic Video Online: AVON is a multidisciplinary collection of videos that touches on the curriculum needs of virtually every department. With over 78,000 titles available, this collection is unmatched in its breadth. Disciplines and subjects include: anthropology, counseling & therapy, fashion, business & economics, diversity studies, education, documentary film, feature film, history, music & dance, news & current events, theatre.
Academic Video Online (AVON) includes every kind of video material available with curricular relevance: documentaries, interviews, performances, news programs and newsreels, field recordings, commercials, and raw footage. Patrons will find thousands of award-winning films, including Academy, Emmy, and Peabody winners. - Films on Demand Education Video Collection This link opens in a new windowThe Films on Demand Education Video Collection provides over 1,500 videos that address effective teaching methods and classroom management as well as best practices for use of technology, application of standards, overcoming the challenges of special needs students, understanding legal and ethical issues, and more. Included are these highly regarded titles and series: School: The Story of American Public Education, How Difficult Can This Be? The F.A.T. City Workshop, Integrating ESL Students into the Classroom, Teaching Diverse Learners, multiple titles on Jean Piaget and his theories of cognitive development in children, and Class Act: Jay W. Jensen and the Future of Arts Education in America.
