TED-Ed, a platform with short educational animations
Autonomous learning
Description: Ted-Ed is an online educational platform that provides interactive lessons with informative videos on a wide range of topics. It consists of short video animations put together by a variety of experts such as educators, historians, and journalists. Each of these animated videos is accompanied by questions and other resources to integrate into a lesson, which can also be customised by teachers. Ted-Ed is accessible for free and does not require having an account to visualise content, but teachers have to log in to create a lesson. TED was first developed as a conference by Richard Saul Wurma in 1984.
Evaluation: Ted-ED is a handy tool for flipped classroom approaches, offering many complementary resources to be integrated in a course. It also is a very tailorable tool since it allows teachers to introduce specific different types of questions, images, and more.
Cost: Free.
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Time efficiency 
Time needed to learn how to use a tool and its time-saving potential: Medium.
Interface language(s) The number of languages in which the tool is currently available/adaptable to: English.
Respect for privacy What data does the tool collect and why? What security measures are there? GDPR compliant? : Medium. TED collects various types of personal information and cookies for multiple purposes, such as providing services, personalisation, or communication. It may share user data with third parties for various purposes, including behavioural analysis to tailor TED’s advertising to users' interests on other websites. However, users can opt out of this. TED implements updates and safeguards to ensure the secure processing, management, and storage of user data. It also acknowledges users’ rights to update, change, or delete their personal data. TED complies with the GDPR. See more here.
Saving work for future use Can work be saved for future use?: Yes, teachers can save lessons into their TED profiles.