Top 5 Educational Youtube Channels You Need to Check Right Away

Learning with Youtube is a new widespread trend. There many channels with lectures and presentations on different topics and subjects for children and adults. These channels are created by institutions, scientists, organizations or volunteers.

This way of learning is actually effective, and probably even more effective than traditional learning, because traditional lectures can go in tandem with presentations and documentary facts to build more better comprehension of a topic and make learning interactive. The only drawback of this method of learning is that learners can’t ask their teachers to clarify something along the way. That’s why, learning with Google can’t be the only source of knowledge.

 The Best 5 Educational Youtube Channels

1. Fora.tv. This is a channel about everything. There are many questions that are often discussed in the American society, such as gay marriages or tax cuts. All the problems are discussed from the American point of view. Usually, videos on Fora.tv last up to 5 minutes which is a very convenient format for watching the entire video during a short break at job or before going to bed.
2. MIT. This is an amazing engineering channel. Videos are posted by professors. Generally, there are a number of videos from each course. Thanks to such method of teaching, videos work as real lectures and you can start from any lecture you want depending on what level of knowledge you already have in this field.
3. Bad Astronomy. This is a channel about the secrets of the universe for people who are new to this field. Bad Astronomy is a suitable channel for adults and children. The channel explains different ideas or stereotypes about the universe.
4. UCtelevision. This channel was created by the University of California, but it doesn’t focus on traditional lectures being common for in classroom settings. The channel is focus on presentations which are given by professors of the university or guest specialists. The competence of speakers may be different but they usually give interesting and thought-provoking information.
5. Research Channel. This is a channel all about science: hard science, medical science and social science. The channel contain videos of presentations led by researchers in such subjects as Math, Psychology and Medicine. Videos are about different topics in these subjects mixed with interviews of famous figures.  

Watching different educational channels helps not only to know more but to make you more open minded and educated even without attending college or taking a course in certain subject. There much more educational channels which will help you know more about different field in science and about the universe.