The Texas Tech University Office of the Provost announces an exciting new digital resource called NBC Learn Higher Ed, a collection of videos, documents, and images from the NBC News historical archives for classroom and on-line use.
Through a special project sponsored by the TTU Office of the Provost, all TTU students, faculty, staff, and researchers now have access through their eRaider ID to the NBC Learn Higher Ed website. NBC Learn content is also searchable through the TTU Library. In addition for use in general classroom instruction, later this fall, NBC Learn will be available in Blackboard for faculty who wish to incorporate into their classroom, online courses, and for students who wish to view and search.
NBC Learn Higher Ed includes:
- Over 10,000 primary source videos, documents, letters, and images
- Current events videos updated daily
- Resources for Sciences, Arts & Humanities, Careers, Business and more
- Historic news broadcasts and newsreels from the 1930’s – Present
- Full transcripts, bibliographic citations, and closed captioning
- Rights and Copyright cleared for classroom and online use
- Easy-to-use search and browse interface
- Flipable Cue Card Media player
Access this exciting new service in three different ways:
- On the web, go to http://nbclearn.ttu.edu, sign in with your eRaider, and start searching and viewing NBC Learn content. From this site, you will have "personalized" access to NBC Learn and can create play lists and export content.
- From the TTU Library Search page (www.library.ttu.edu), search using keywords by topic and items from NBC Learn will be included in your search results.
- In Blackboard - In addition for use in general classroom instruction, later this fall, NBC Learn will be available in Blackboard for faculty who wish to incorporate into their classroom, online courses, and for students who wish to view and search NBC Learn content and create play lists from within Blackboard.
Note also, that a non-personalized access to NBC Learn Higher Ed is also available from any campus computer by visiting http://highered.nbclearn.com.
For more information regarding this new service, visit the informational site http://www.depts.ttu.edu/infotech/nbclearn.
For additional questions or information, please contact IT Help Central (ithelpcentral@ttu.edu) at (806) 742-4357 (HELP).
