The way students are learning in the classroom is evolving as
technology provides more visual and interactive methods of
educating. Anyone that has watched a gripping TED Talk online
has wondered why their professors back in high school or college
couldn't express tech, science and cultural themes with the same
excitement and fervor. Well, now, TED is launching TED Ed. Back
in March, the organization launched the first phase of its “TED-
Ed” initiative -- a series of a dozen short animated YouTube
videos “created for high school students and lifelong learners."
Now, TED Ed has a website with lots of supplementary education
materials for teachers to start incorporating into classroom
lessons or offer as outside materials to compliment that
coursework. While the platform is not meant to build a fully
flushed out online university, it is meant to provide a little
help to teachers around the world that want to inject some real-
world examples and visual animation to some tricky concepts like
universe construction a