Faculty: Videos for Online Courses

Are you looking for a way to bring your course alive with free, high-quality academic videos?

Our library recently subscribed to the Films on Demand Master Academic Collection database which includes 11,200 full length videos and 166,000 video clips.     

Major subject categories include the Humanities, Social Sciences, Business, Economics, Health/Medicine, Science, and Mathematics.  Archival films and newsreels are also included.  Access is delivered via online streaming technology and is ideally suited for CampusWeb or individual usage.

Below is a sampling of videos from the Films on Demand database.  To view any of these videos, go to the Films on Demand database and search by title.

• Anatomy of Prejudice: Jane Elliott's Seminar on Race
• Breaking the Wall of Inaccessible Knowledge: How Digitization Can Democratize Culture
• Business Etiquette
• Child Development: School Readiness
• Classic Studies in Psychology
• Criminal Investigative Analysis
• Early Childhood Classrooms
• Emergency Management Planning
• Great Speeches (Volume 1): John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., Adolf Hitler, Douglas MacArthur, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Barack Obama
• Hot Tips for Classroom Management
• How People Power Generates Change
• Inside the New KKK
• LZ Granderson: The Myth of the Gay Agenda
• Management Styles
• Presentation Essentials
• MLK's Dream of Economic Justice
• Note Taking: Academic Success Series
• One Fine Day: Individual Acts of Courage and Defiance
• Qualitative Methods
• Social Psychology: The Psychology of Abuse
• Strategies to Promote the Health of Individuals
• Transcendentalist Legacy
• Time Management: Academic Success Series

Linking Video

Each Films on Demand video has a permanent "Title URL" that you can add to your course that will direct students to the Films on Demand website. If your film has been divided into segments and you wish to show just one segment, click the desired segment and when the page loads, you'll see that the "Title URL" has changed to "Segment URL".  Be sure to highlight the entire URL before you copy it. It will end with numbers.

When adding the link to CampusWeb, it is good practice to select "new window" as the target so student do not have to leave the course site to view the video.

Embedding Video

You also have the option to embed a Films on Demand video into your CampusWeb course. Look for the "embed this video" option below each video.

  

This will generate the embed code you need. Copy and paste the embed code into your CampusWeb course using the HTML editor. 

 

If you need assistance viewing a video or embedding it in your course, please contact a librarian.

Please ignore any reference to a trial expiration date on the library databases page; we currently have full access to the Films on Demand database.