About Our Videos
Video on Asian Topics is a resource from Asia for Educators designed for teachers to deepen their understanding of East Asia and bring Asia into the classroom.
Content ranges from short snippets arranged in playlists to in-depth discussions. Each video presented by an expert in their field, recorded in a professional studio setting to ensure reliable and credible material to support your teaching.
Beyond Video
Our videos are supplemented with additional tools to help access our content, further understand the content, and to provide teaching materials. In these pages you will find:
- Links to Background Reading and Classroom Materials
- Time stamped teaching guides for many of the videos
- Presentation files – PDF and PowerPoint – to download for classroom use
- Related videos
- The ability to search for key terms or filter content by Region or Subject
History of “Asian Topics”
Asia for Educators first produced video content prior to the internet with Annenburg. The collaboration resulted “Asian Topics” that has has been digitized remained immensely popular for classroom use to this day. This video collection now lives in these pages as “Asian Topics – Legacy Series.” We hope you include these concise clips on literature, religion, and history into your classroom!
About Asia for Educators
All videos here are produced by Asia for Educators, a part of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University. AFE is also coordinating site for the National Consortium for Teaching about Asia (NCTA).
You can find many more resources and contact info through our homepage, www.afe.easia.columbia.edu.
