Overview of NBC Learn Higher Ed

NBC Learn, the educational arm of NBC News, makes the global resources and historic film video archives of NBC News available to faculty and students. NBC Learn is available as a stand-alone version or can be accessed through an easy-to-use Blackboard Building Block included in Release 9.1 and available by users of Releases 7.3 - 9.0.

The NBC Learn collections, currently comprises over 14,000 video resources, primary source documents, images and text resources designed for use across over 30 Higher Ed content areas. Every video has been subject to NBC News’ highest journalistic standards of fairness, accuracy and balance, and every resource is carefully selected by a content specialist based upon its relevance to curriculum and its educational value.

NBC LEARN HIGHER ED includes:

 Over 14,000 video, document and image resources aligned to over 30 Higher Ed content areas  Materials for in-class and online use  Customizable personal playlists  Interactive Cue Card Media Player  Emmy award-winning original video

This ever-growing collection of educational content includes videos, print articles, photographs, charts, graphs and other primary source documents. The database also includes notable third party content from partners such as The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History.

The resources offered through NBC Learn are culled from the vast NBC News archives that date back nearly a century, as well as current events updated every week day from the broadcasts of NBC, MSNBC and CNBC. The NBC News broadcasts are Today Show, Nightly News and Meet the Press.

NBC Learn also produces its own original material for the resource. The database includes over 400 mini- documentaries on subjects in early American history that pre-date the invention of television. NBC Learn also regularly creates series of special collections. Recent examples include the “Science of the Winter Olympic Games” series, in partnership with the National Science Foundation and the “Finishing the Dream: Learning from the Civil Rights Era” collection, in partnership with the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.

Additional information and tutorials regarding NBC Learn, including our Higher Ed brochure, can be found on the Implementation Toolkit website – www.nbclearn.com/tools.

Please contact Ellen Parks to learn more:

Ellen Parks, Regional Account Director

Email: [email protected] Phone: 347-446-0228