EduTube is an educational video search platform launched in April 2008. Our aim is to organize the best free online educational videos, and make them easy for you to find, watch and download. Because sites such as YouTube are often blocked, each video also has a download link displayed on the right of each video, as shown below.

EduTube focuses on popular and high quality educational videos. Videos are sorted by EduTube index, a measure of quality, popularity and educational value. EduTube also has a unique system for organizing and tagging videos, to make finding videos as easy as possible. Most of the videos on EduTube get hundreds or thousands of views a day and are highly rated on the video hosting website itself.

EduTube is community-based and anyone is welcome to contribute. However, please note that all submitted content is moderated. It your video does not meet the EduTube educational and quality standards, it may be rejected. See also our rules and policies.

Search options

Videos are searchable according to education-relevant search criteria - category, educational level, video type and duration - and is further categorized according to language, relevant tags and copyright. For an example of the way tags are used to organize videos, see: Animal Taxonomy.

Views per day & EduTube index

Each video shows the average number of Views per day on the hosting site (in most cases YouTube), which enables you to judge the popularity of the video. This is different from the more commonly used total number of views, which is biased towards older videos.

The EduTube index combines three measures into a single value as shown in the picture below. It is based on views per day, the video rating* on the hosting site and a subjective evaluation of the educational value of the video according to EduTube moderators. Videos with a high EduTube index (around 6-10) tend to be popular, highly ranked, and have a high educational value. The EduTube index can therefore be used to more easily find the best educational videos. Of course, this index is just one of many possible ways of ranking videos, and videos with a higher EduTube index are not always better than videos with a lower EduTube index.

*Since YouTube changed its rating system to thumbs up/thumbs down, the rating out of 5 is calculated as follows: (thumbs up/total number of votes) x 5.

Organizing videos

You may have noticed when searching for educational videos on sites such as YouTube that your search returns many irrelevant results. It can be difficult to find what you are looking for, because videos often have tags which are not related to the video but which help drive traffic towards the video. With EduTube, only relevant tags are permitted, and moderators make sure that videos are correctly classified. This enables you to find educational videos more easily and efficiently and not waste time browsing through pages of irrelevant search results. However, organizing the best educational videos on the Internet is a lot of work, and we could use your help!

Contribute to EduTube, join the community

You can submit a video to EduTube and help us achieve our objective of improving search for educational videos. If you choose to join EduTube, you can also start your own group on a particular theme, edit your own submissions and no longer have to fill in the CAPTCHA with each submission. For an example of a group, see the Robots Group.

EduTube is based in Paris and is managed by a group of volunteers from France, Kenya and the Netherlands. If you are interested in joining our team please contact Frank van Cappelle. Feel free to contact us if you have any questions regarding EduTube.