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The Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research (BMBWF) and ORF launched the educational platform “edutube” on Sunday for the digital transmission of high-quality, education-relevant teaching videos.
AUSTRIA Initially, “edutube” offers around 800 short videos, documentaries and journal articles researched journalistically in public law, which can be used to complement and support digital education.
The offer is available to all teachers and schoolchildren in Austria, he said in a press release, and is available in eight different thematic blocks: Media / Digital, Climate / Environment, Health / Lifestyle, People / Culture, Politics / Europe, History / news, economy / consumption and science / research.
The video contributions were generated from different ORF transmission formats, in particular from the information and science sector. In addition, “edutube” offers an original length documentation package, for example “Newton”, “Dok 1” or “Universum”, as well as numerous productions from the BMBWF inventory. Throughout the year, the educational media platform will be expanded successively with more short videos. The technical implementation of the password protected VoD platform was carried out by the transmitter technology subsidiary ORF ORS.
Communicate content clearly
“With edutube.at, together with ORF, we are creating an additional offering for digital communication of high-quality educational and relevant educational videos. The streaming platform edutube.at provides short videos that have been reliably investigated by journalists and are based on the curriculum requirements. This offer for all Austrian teachers and schoolchildren is intended to help transmit content clearly and improve digital teaching, “said Education Minister Heinz Faßmann.
ORF Director General Alexander Wrabetz: “In order to support all students and teachers, but also parents and families, since mid-March the ORF tried special information and educational programs on the radio and television to better address all stakeholders in this difficult support situation and has continuously expanded its range of programs since then. “
