TEDEd : lessons worth sharing

TED believes passionately that ideas have the power to change attitudes, lives, and ultimately, the world. This underlying philosophy is the driving force behind all of TED's endeavors, including the TED Conferences, TEDx, TEDBooks, the TEDFellows Program, and the TEDTranslations Project. With this philosophy in mind, and with the intention of supporting teachers and sparking the curiosity of learners around the world, TED launched its newest initiative, TED-Ed.

TED-Ed is a free educational website for teachers and learners. We are a global and interdisciplinary initiative with a commitment to creating lessons worth sharing. Our approach to education is an extension of TED’s mission of spreading great ideas. Within the growing TED-Ed video library, you will find carefully curated educational videos, many of which represent collaborations between talented educators and animators nominated through the TED-Ed platform. This platform also allows users to take any useful educational video, not just TED's, and easily create a customized lesson around the video. Users can distribute the lessons, publicly or privately, and track their impact on the world, a class, or an individual student.

TED-Ed’s commitment to creating lessons worth sharing is an extension of TED’s mission of spreading great ideas. Within the growing TED-Ed video library, you will find carefully curated educational videos, many of which represent collaborations between talented educators and animators nominated through the TED-Ed platform. This platform also allows users to take any useful educational video, not just TED's, and easily create a customized lesson around the video. Users can distribute the lessons, publicly or privately, and track their impact on the world, a class, or an individual student. TED-Ed's videos aim to capture and amplify the voices of the world's greatest educators. To achieve this, extraordinary educators are paired with talented animators to produce a new library of exceptional educational videos. The TED-Ed website, similar to TED.com, is ever-evolving and TED depends on you, the TED community, to nominate inspiring teachers that have touched your life or clever animators who have the skills to bring a gifted teacher's lesson to life.

Best Flips are exceptional user-created lessons. A Best Flip is a stellar video from YouTube that has been surrounded by multiple choice questions, compelling writing prompts, a meaningful guided discussion, and a section that links to other pertinent resources. A Best Flip can be created by anyone, anywhere, at any time.  The important thing about a Best Flip is that it uses the TED-Ed website to showcase a video that has the potential to teach an incredible lesson and then it uses the modules built on the TED-Ed website to teach said lesson. All TED-Ed lesson creators have the option to nominate their lessons as Best Flips. Each nominated lesson is carefully reviewed by volunteer teachers and the TED-Ed tam. Lessons that are selected through this process appear on the official Best Flips page.

Video lessons are also grouped under a unifying or describing theme, and denoted as Series. Lessons that are categorized (under one theme or topic, etc.) appear on the official Series page. For a complete list (per educational subject) go here.