Electronic publisher Alexander Street Press, US, has announced the addition of the complete catalogue of UK-based Teachers TV to its Education in Video collection. This addition is seen to significantly increase the collection, adding more than 800 hours of best-practice, research-based and in-classroom education video, with no additional charge to customers.
Created by the UK’s Department of Education in 2008, Teachers TV is stated to have produced concise instructional videos featuring engaging and practical in-classroom demonstrations and commentary from teachers, administrators and other educational experts. The government-funded Teachers TV Web site closed down due to budget cuts in April 2011 but is now available to an international audience through Education in Video. In addition to the fully searchable scrolling transcripts that will be added to the videos in the spring, the titles are viewable in full screen mode, cross-searchable with related videos, semantically indexed, and in a much higher streaming quality than previously available.
More than 3,000 videos make up the Teachers TV catalogue. Key topics covered include teaching global issues and citizenship, behaviour issues, assessment, administration techniques, social issues, ICT (Information and Communications Technology), and special education.
The licensing agreement allows for open access to the taxpayer-funded content for all UK and Northern Ireland users, along with the unique Alexander Street features such as scrolling transcripts and full-screen functionality, at the open access portal http://edtv.alexanderstreet.com.
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