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Why Teachers use Video and Zane Education

Teachers across North America and many other countries are using Zane Education's online visual learning solution and subtitled educational video library because it provides a unique, essential and compelling online visual learning teaching resource for every K-12 classroom. It delivers significant advantages for each teacher, and meaningful benefits for each student.

With up to 94% of teachers now using video as a teaching aid in the classroom on a regular basis, Zane's user-friendly visual learning program minimises lesson preparation times and improves the use of the teachers time in the classroom enabling them to spend more time with those students that require more assistance. It also provides improved learning outcomes for all students by accommodating virtually all learning styles, and by providing the opportunity for each student to improve their reading and literacy skills AT THE SAME TIME that are studying a wide range of curriculum topics.

Zane Education's online visual learning solution includes the use of what is currently the largest and most comprehensive library of online educational video developed specifically for teaching the K-12 curriculum AND purposely subtitled to combine the power of visual learning to facilitate the improvement of reading and literacy skills for children of all ages.


But there is far more to Zane Education than simply it's use of visual learning...

There are also three advanced features that makes Zane Education's visual learning program, the online learning solution of choice for many K-12 teachers. Being teachers:

  • They appreciate that visual learning and the use of subtitled video caters for most learning styles providing each child with the choice to watch, listen to, or read each video presentation, thereby allowing them to process information in the preferred and most effective way.
  • They understand that research has identified the link between the uses of subtitles or captions on video and potential for improvement in reading and literacy skills, which enables students to study a topic and improve their reading and literacy skills at the same time.
  • They recognize the importance of enabling each child to study at their own speed and thereby achieve their greatest potential.

Zane's online visual learning solution includes 5 key components:

  1. The subtitled videos that teach the information - often called the curriculum.
  2. The quizzes that test - but also continue the learning process.
  3. The lesson plans - for lesson preparation and lesson activities.
  4. The video study tools - that enables students to fully explore each topic.
  5. The Study Centre - enables student to track progress and provides additional resources (re-opening soon - new features currently being added)
*Subjects include: Science & Biology, Social Studies (History & Geography), English (Literature & Writing), Math (free), Art, Music, Religious Studies, Health, Library Skills, Social Sciences.

Zane's online learning benefits...

Our advanced online learning solution provides teachers with a unique teaching aid that offers the following significant and unequalled benefits:

  • Teacher Benefits
  • Reduces teachers lesson preparation time
  • Simple and straight forward to use
  • Provides more time for kids needing help
  • Produces better learning outcomes
  • Solution to ensure no child is left behind!
  • Aligned to National and State Standards
  • Available online on-demand 24/7
  • Student Benefits
  • Makes learning fun and more interesting
  • Can be used individually or as a group
  • Provides for different learning styles
  • Students study each topic effectively
  • Improves reading and literacy skills at same time
  • Enables child to learn at their own speed
  • Helps develop independent learning

More Information:


Visual Learning

  • Visual Learning Benefits
  • Enhances learning
  • Motivates students
  • Highly effective
  • Significant Cost benefits
  • Improves Performance

Visual learning entails the use of visual aids like video to convey ideas even more effectively. It enhances learning since interactive effects are used to reinforce the content being learned. Visual learning is a great way of learning as it aids to increase a learner's interest in a certain subject.

Visual learning techniques are used widely in schools across the country to accomplish curriculum goals and improve student performance.

More on Visual Learning >

Educational Video

  • Educational Video Benefits
  • Suits wide range of learning styles
  • Helps make learning fun
  • Stimulates and Engages Students
  • Holds attention for longer periods
  • Motivates independent learning
  • Enables self-paced learning
  • Accelerates student achievement
  • Essential for Dyslexic students
  • Ideal medium for Special Needs

Substantial research promotes the use of video in the classroom, or the home, as a dynamic and effective resource for teaching and supporting curriculum material. According to a recent teacher survey, 94% of classroom teachers had effectively used video during the course of the last academic year, and most teachers were using it frequently - on average, at least once per week.

More on Teaching with Educational Video >

Video Subtitles

  • Subtitle Benefits
  • Motivates Reading
  • Improves reading & literacy skills
  • Helps students retain information
  • Reinforces material being studied
  • Essential for hearing impairment
  • Invaluable for ESL students
  • Meets laws for disability education

"A picture is worth a thousand words, but add text to the sound and video becomes a reading tutor."
(Captions For Literacy, 2008)

Zane provides the only fully subtitled (captioned) video library with enlarged fonts developed specifically for teaching available online. It enables study of curriculum material and reading improvement - at the same time! AND there are now legal requirements to cater for students with learning disabilities.

More on The Effective Use of Subtitles >
More on Subtitle Research >

Quizzes and Online Assessment

  • Quiz Testing Benefits
  • Continues learning process
  • Maximises learning outcomes
  • Tests mastery of specific material
  • All answers qualified & explained
  • Big question pool allows repeat use
  • Inc. graphics & audio if relevant
  • Retain quiz results by email

Many teachers dislike preparing and grading exams, and most students' dread taking them. Yet tests are powerful educational tools that serve at least four functions. They help evaluate and assess whether students they are learning what is being expecting of them. They can serve to motivate and help students structure their academic efforts. They can help you understand how successfully material is being presented. And they can reinforce learning by providing students with indicators of what topics or skills they have not yet mastered and should concentrate on.

Zane uses multiple-choice tests to measure both simple knowledge and complex concepts because multiple-choice questions can be answered quickly and you can assess students' mastery of many topics in a short time period. Zane has also ensured that each correct or incorrect answer is qualified with a reason so as to ensure that the learning process continues.

More on Quizzes and Online Assessment >

Video Study Tools

  • Video Study Tool Benefits
  • Video Word Glossary
  • Dictionary
  • Thesaurus
  • Concise Encyclopaedia
  • World Fact Book
  • Literary Arts Guide
  • Interactive KJV Bible

A selection of interactive study tools are provided immediately beside every video to enable the student to fully explore and understand all aspects of each particular topic.

Lesson Plans

  • Lesson Plan Benefits
  • Review Questions
  • Key Glossary Terms
  • Discussion Topic
  • Debate subject
  • Research Assignment
  • Activity
  • Essay Assignment

Zane provides free Lesson Planning for virtually all of the 260 topics so as to help reduce and minimize lesson planning and preparation time, and to ensure that lessons that are well planned, will achieve their objectives, and are more likely to provide the best learning outcomes for you and your children or students.

Curriculum Alignment

Zane Education's library of online subtitled video, online testing and assessment, quizzes and quiz questions have been specifically developed and produced for the teaching of the K-12 curriculum and are aligned to state, regional and national standards.

Zane Learning Guide

The Zane Learning Guide provides a detailed list and overview of the K-12 subjects and topics that can be studied using our online subtitled educational video library.

We highly recommend that you take the time to download this 270-page publication if you want to want to understand the comprehensive nature of the curriculum material we provide. Simply looking at our website will not fully inform you of the true extent of the learning material that we provide.

The link to download this from is: Catalog Downloads

Teacher Program Guide

Zane Education provides a Teacher Classroom Guide for Teachers demonstrating suggested ways how to use the visual learning resources provided on this website to achieve the best educational outcome for the student in the classroom.

This Guide can be downloaded free of cost on our Downloads page by those people that have completed a free Registration for a free Basic Membership.

Teacher Membership Options

Teachers can complete a free Registration for a Basic Membership of our service by going to our Registration Page.

The subscription pricing provided on our Membership page is for the home and private use only!

We provide teachers with 3 purchasing options:

  1. Topic Taster
    You can purchase a Topic Taster subscription for only $5.00 which provides 30 days use of any single Topic on our website - irrespective of the number of videos provided for that topic. You can use this option to trial our service, or as a teacher you may use this in class of up to 25 students for your own personal teaching resource.
  2. Teacher Subscription
    If you are a teacher wishing to purchase the use of our service for your own personal teaching resource in classes of up to 25 students, or personal use after school hours, you are permitted to use the same purchasing options provided on our Membership page for home and private users.
  3. School Subscription
    If you are a teacher or school wishing to purchase a school subscription for our service to use in all classrooms in your school (including school library etc) you will need to purchase a School Subscription License. We will provide you with a quoted price for a School Subscription License that will be based upon the number of students in your school. Therefore please use our Contact page to contact us and provide us with your name and the name, and the name and address of your school, including the number of students that attend, and we will respond immediately with an annual price for a School Subscription License.
  • Features
  • Teacher Classroom Guide
  • Subtitled Educational Videos
  • DEMO Subtitled Videos
  • Free math videos
  • All quizzes for each topic
  • Video study tools
  • Downloadable Lesson Plans
  • Learning objectives
  • Other onsite resources
  • Zane Video catalogue (PDF)
  • Tech Support
  • Zane Learning Guide
  • Christian Learning Guide
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PLEASE NOTE:
While we are a business, access to education for all children is extremely important to us, and something we take very seriously. If you are a teacher at a school where either poverty, or similar, is an issue in preventing you from using our service, or alternatively where there are Special Needs children missing out, we want you to make contact with us.

Under certain circumstances there are special situations where we may be able to assist you. We cannot make those decisions unless you make the situations known to us. Thank you.