How have you used Crash Course videos?

I'm disabled and higher education is inaccessible to me, yet I have a big wish to learn. I depend on online resources, especially free ones, as I can't work either.

Teacher. Great way to introduce context for a piece of lit before we roll up our AP sleeves and tear it apart.

I really wanted to learn more about philosophy. It is very hard to understand. I watched your introduction to philosophy through a few times and it gave me the confidence to take some moocs in the subject. I have watched many of your courses since, I love learning new things and crash course gives me the opportunity to fill gaps in my education.

Parent. I want to learn about economics to improve my life and help build a better foundation for my children than I had growing up.

I started with World History. I missed World History I while moving between schools, so it was a good way to fill in missing material.

I haven't actually consumed much crash course myself but want to support it.

I originally started watching Crash Course for fun and then I used it because I went back to college. You all have helped me with several classes. My only regret is Crash Course was not around when I was in high school. It would have made my life so much easier then. But thanks for making my life easier and more interesting now!

They are my main refreash-a-subject method as a teacher. (I also learned stuff like Media Literacy just for the sake of it though)

I've used a couple of the Crash Course Computing videos in a 2-week summer bridge program for incoming freshman who are interested in learning computing.

I teach 9th and 10th grade Health Science classes at a Magnet HS. I use the Anatomy and Physiology series on a regular basis. I use them to review or to introduce a topic. I have also used some of the Science History ones, and I HIGHLY recommend the Study Skills series because 9th grade is a big transition year for students. Thanks for all you do to make us all smarter :)

I teach Science from 5-10 grade in Australia. Crash Course and Crash Course Kids videos are a go to for me. I use them to introduce or for students to use as revision. Great videos and please keep it up! My only suggestion is for videos that are aimed at Middle School ages. Some of the Bio/Chem videos are a little to high a level and the CCKids is a little too low.

I’m an English teacher, and I use a ton of crash course videos. I mix and match them for certain topics I want to cover (like composition), time periods, or social issues. I create “viewing guides” so my developmental students can do guided note taking.

Wow, thank you for all these lovely comments sharing your experiences! We're glad to see Crash Course is useful to a wide range of people in different ways, and at different stages of life. And of course, thank you all for being patrons. You help make Crash Course possible!

I started binge watching series end-to-end a few months back. (So far I've done linguistics, European history, most of statistics and some of chemistry and geology.) Now I'm realizing that I need a better note taking system! Without spaced repetition it's all fading away.

Had pick up a tutoring gig so went to rewatch world history for a primer and stayed for the fun. Psychology help me study for the MCAT now I using the videos as stress relief while studying for STEP1

I have watched some for fun over the past few years. So when online schooling wasn't working for my kids, I pulled them offline to homeschool them. We watch the "grown up" crash course (as opposed to "kids," but I don't test them or follow up, it's purely for awareness and understanding and to help identify what they might be passionate about in their lives. They love the humour and animations and ask REALLY GREAT questions when we discuss what we've watched.

Had to take a year of Anatomy & Physiology to get into a program to become a radiographer (X-ray tech). Crash Course videos were super helpful in reinforcing highlights of each body system and presenting complex topics ( like the immune system) in a humorous way.

Had very racist US history and civics classes in high school and reeducating myself with Crash Course was amazingly helpful.

I let my university ESL students pick topics they find interesting to listen to as homework and practice their note-taking skills. I also binge them for fun!

I teach US history and have my students watch the series concurrently while reading a text. One of my assignments asks them to compare how the text and a video cover a particular topic. It’s a great way to introduce the topic of historiography. When will we get an episode #48 on the second Obama term, the Trump term, and the pandemic? “Stupid disease, always getting in the way.” 😷

I started out watching for fun. Now that I’m teaching my first grader from home we watch a lot of CC and SciShowKids together. We can cover so much more in a shorter time than the curriculum we’re given and it’s way more fun.

I narrate audiobooks, and am often cast for non-fiction books with a lot of specific terms and names that I need to learn how to pronounce correctly. Using Youglish dot com to search for these words, I'm often landing on Crash Course videos about the topic of the book I'm recording. Fun fact - after watching one of these videos I often find myself starting to sound like Green when I resume recording.

Funny story, Crash Course Shows up in my local High School Health class. Sex Ed from Hank! Yeah, that was fun. "Mom, Hank was talking about Sex today at school!" LOL I mean, I initially started watching Crash Course for fun. I loved to continue to learn. My husband did also enjoy the shows. Then I noticed that it started showing up in my kids classrooms. I know an entire Psychology course that has Video after Video my kids use. They watched Crash Course in Elem, Middle and High School and now in college courses. It's wonderful and sometimes humorous where and when I will hear of Crash Course being used in education. So even if I voted other/forfun, it really is in our schools! So proud for you all!

Big History, and World History 1&2 changed my life. Context is everything. I wish I had more time to watch the ton of awesome stuff available. Retirement is coming....ya hoo! I will NEVER be bored...

I love learining new things and your series is just perfect for that. Binge watched the world history playlists and loved it. Starting on Geography now!

I teach a Law & Government course to freshmen, so I use the Civics and Government videos to supplement our learning. I also use some of the videos from the Economics and American History set as well. Students love the videos and look forward to when they are assigned!

Chemistry, Biology and Anatomy Physiology videos are a wonderful, uplifting supplement for my students' academic diets !

I teach World History and AP European history and I use Crash Course videos at least once per unit. I've tried using other videos, but the kids continue to voice how much they enjoy them. The European Crash Course videos have been especially awesome for my AP kids!

I watch for fun to learn new things and have also recommended them to students (particularly A&P!) as study resources.

My university history professor has us watch them for US and World History as an intro into the sections we are about to dive into. I rewatch them at the end voluntarily to help reinforce and synthesize all the wordy things the professor had us read.

I was in AP Bio and AP World History when the first Crash Course videos came out, and I remember feeling so lucky that these videos were created right when I needed them.

I started watching Crash Course World History for fun, but now I use the videos frequently in my online Creative Writing courses at both UTSC and UCLA. Whether it's a 'here's a quick refresher on Romeo and Juliet," the intellectual property series, or a bit of sociology on crime or racism as a discussion starter for my crime writing class, they serve both as door-openers and icebreakers.

I am a college literature professor, and I have used videos from the literature, history, mythology, and theatre courses 🙂 My students love them!

I'm a teacher. I usually pick 1-2 courses to do each summer just to keep my head fresh. Las summer I did History of Science and Economics. Before that, I did philosophy and psychology. This summer I'll do Geography and Linguistics. I've also used the videos in class. I teach literature, but I find myself assigning the Sociology videos frequently in order to give the students different frameworks through which to view literature.

I'm a librarian, not a regular classroom teacher, as well as a science student (2nd bachelors in biology/biomedical science). So I use them as a student and in my capacity as an educator, as well as just for fun when it's a topic I'm curious about.

I use Crash Course Anatomy and Physiology as a supplement to the OER textbook that I use with my Basic Anatomy course for students in our Coding/Health Information Technology program. I also use individual episodes of Crash Course Ecology, General Biology, Chemistry, and Big History to illustrate concepts from the role of infectious disease in history to nutrient cycling.

Right now I just watch for fun, but I am also a parent of a young child. I watch certain videos to remind myself of concepts such as calculus or chemistry because it has been almost 20 years since I took a formal class in those subjects. Every so often I will watch videos to prepare myself to eventually help my child and not be hopelessly lost. So I support crash course for my own learning and so my child will eventually be able to benefit as well.

I assign cc computer science and artificial intelligence videos to my freshmen cs majors

Keep in mind that most people who are traditional students won't have the luxury of spending money on Crash Course. You're going to get a lot of selection bias in this survey.

The Crash Course Theatre videos are extremely helpful to post on my university course pages to give students the basics in a flipped classroom setting so that when we discuss the various theatre movements/artists they all have a great foundation. Crash Course Theatre is great!