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The Great Courses is a series of college-level audio and video courses produced and distributed by The Teaching Company, a Chantilly, Virginia company, via mobile and tablet apps, CD, DVD, or MP3 and MPEG-4 download formats, and streaming media.
Your streaming course viewer opens automatically on the same page. Press play, and enjoy! Pause, stop, and restart your lecture at any time. Expand your window to full-screen by clicking on the icon located in the bottom-right corner of the viewer.
If you purchased a digital version of your Great Courses, there's no need to wait for the course to arrive in the mail. You can start discovering new insights, in just minutes, on your personal computer, laptop, smartphone, iPad, Kindle Fire, or Roku device. Streaming is the easiest way to view or listen to your courses.
Digital versions of courses don’t require any waiting around—you’ll have immediate access and can stream videos on your computer or device. I generally opt to stream videos, but you can also download them. This is very useful if you’ll be watching them later in a place with no internet access.
If you purchased a digital version of your Great Courses, there's no need to wait for the course to arrive in the mail. You can start discovering new insights, in just minutes, on your personal computer, laptop, smartphone, iPad, Kindle Fire, or Roku device.
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Wondrium is a streaming video and audio learning experience. You can stream a collection of programs and episodes from our website in addition to streaming and downloading from our Wondrium app. The Great Courses offers a la carte purchases of DVDs and Downloads.
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A: When you are logged into your account, click My Digital Library and then select the course you would like to download. Right-click (or Ctrl-click on Mac) the download icon and select “Save As,” “Save Link,” “Save Target,” or “Download Link As” to download your selected lecture.
The Great Courses Plus grew rapidly, but so did the demand for new types of learning experiences. We decided it was time to step out from behind the podium and move beyond traditional academic content.
If you were familiar with The Great Courses Plus, Wondrium is the new, rebranded version of that old site. Much of the content comes from the now-retired The Great Courses Plus, and there's new content, too, thanks to partnerships with a few nonfiction video production companies.
In April 2021, the company announced the rebranding of its global streaming platform from the Great Courses Plus to Wondrium, along with new licensing agreements to include content from Kino Lorber, MagellanTV, and Craftsy.
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A: When you are logged into your account, click My Digital Library and then select the course you would like to download. Right-click (or Ctrl-click on Mac) the download icon and select “Save As,” “Save Link,” “Save Target,” or “Download Link As” to download your selected lecture.
The Great Courses, the leading global media brand for lifelong learning, recently launched an all-you-can-learn streaming service, The Great Courses Plus. With the streaming option, customers are not limited to a single course.
Fortunately, your Mentor Public Library offers four ways that you can enjoy more The Great Courses for free.Borrow them from us. ... Stream them using Kanopy. ... Watch the Great Courses with RBDigital. ... Stream audio versions of the Great Courses for free with Hoopla.
My Digital Library on TheGreatCourses.com lets you stream courses you own on your computer (requires account login). You can also download the Instant Video formats of the course to view when offline.
To clear your cache, go to the settings button on your iPad, and click the Safari icon. Select the clear cache option.
If you have ordered a course format without a download or streaming option, it will not show up. In some cases, if you did not purchase the specific download/streaming format, it might display but not play.
If you already have the viewer open, there are buttons for "previous lecture" and "next lecture" that you can select. The lecture number and title are always displayed, so you know which lecture you’re streaming at all times.
Streaming is the easiest way to view or listen to your courses. All you need is a supported device with a high-speed internet connection.
You can stream your lectures as many times as you want.
To enjoy The Great Courses you have already purchased via our Roku app, link your Great Courses Digital Library to Roku for your TV .
Choose the lecture you want. Your streaming course viewer opens automatically on the same page.
If you purchased a digital version of The Great Courses, there's no need to wait for your courses to arrive in the mail. You can start discovering new insights in just minutes on your personal computer, laptop, smart phone, iPad, Kindle Fire, or Roku device.
If you are on a mobile or tablet device, download our app to take your courses with you while you exercise, run errands, or travel.
Do I need to change my computer settings or download any applications to stream my courses?
To enjoy The Great Courses you have already purchased via our Roku app, link your Great Courses Digital Library to Roku for your TV .
You can start discovering new insights in just minutes after purchasing and downloading your digital course to your personal computer, laptop, smart phone, or iPad.
Every Great Course goes on sale at least once a year at up to 70% off its retail price. This revolving sales approach allows you to get both great value and great service. Here's how: Producing large quantities of only the Great Courses currently on sale keeps our manufacturing and inventory costs down. More important: We get to pass these savings on to you. This approach also enables us to fill your order immediately: 99% of all orders placed by 11:00 a.m. Eastern Standard Time ship that same day.
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We offer the Great Courses on DVD and as Instant Video (compatible with both iTunes and Windows Media Player) and Instant Audio (both MP3 and MPEG-4). Transcript Books are also available for sale for most Great Courses. Our DVD, Instant Video, and Instant Audio formats provide you with the highest-quality video and audio.
The choice depends both on the content of the individual Great Course and how you want to use it. Audio: Audio versions are very flexible, allowing you to listen to your course almost anywhere and at any time you like: while commuting, while jogging, while gardening—even while swimming. Video: Video versions contain all visual elements that the professor finds useful for enhancing comprehension of the subject. Some visual elements include:
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When the recipient clicks on their email and redeems their eGift, you will automatically receive an email notification .
When redeeming your gift, you will be able to enter your exsiting The Great Courses email into the redemption form so you can associate it with the correct account.
Unfortunately, there is no way to delay delivery of an eGift. However, you may enter your own email as the recipient so that the gift email will be sent to you and you can simply forward the email to the intended recipient when you would like them to receive the gift. Just make sure you don’t click the “redeem” link in the email or the gift will be added to your account.
Great minds think alike! We can exchange the eGifted course for another course of equal value. Please call customer service at for assistance.
Because the gift is sent immediately, it cannot be returned or exchanged by the person giving the gift. The recipient can exchange the gift for another course of equal or lesser value, or pay the difference on a more expensive item
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Overall, I’d say that The Great Courses platform is perfect for people who are :
That depends. There are three main ways of accessing The Great Courses:
As the lectures unfold, Magness uses photos, maps, and other visual elements to illustrate archaeological sites. These images—buildings and ruins, caves and rock-cut tombs, artefacts, documents and scrolls, murals, and more—illustrate key concepts and show you examples of the raw evidence with which archaeologists work.
As of June 2020, The Great Courses Plus offered a free 14-day trial, after which you can choose to pay on either a monthly (billed $20 per month) or quarterly basis (billed $45 per three months). Another way of accessing The Great Courses is through Amazon Prime. If you have Prime, you can purchase individual lessons or an entire course, ...
She has a personable speaking style, and the lectures are well-paced and run about 30 minutes each. I find this to be a good length, long enough to convey complex ideas but succinct enough to keep me engaged.
Polk does a great job in this class of balancing general theory and concepts with practical advice. For instance, he has several lectures covering topics such as “Conscious, Explicit Learning” and “The Neural Basis of Explicit Learning,” which give a clear overview of this form of learning.
The classes are generally shorter and quicker to work through than Great Courses. An entire class, for instance, might comprise five or six short lessons adding up to one hour of total content.
The Great Courses App enables you to play courses you have purchased from us.
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