Box of Broadcasts (BOB) National

About National BOB

“BOB is currently used by over 120 universities and colleges to enhance teaching and learning. With BOB you can access 2 million broadcasts dating back to the 1990s, record from over 75 free-to-air channels, create your own playlists, clips and clip compilations, search programme transcripts and subtitles, embed content in VLEs and share on social media, one-click citation for easy academic referencing, it is available on all devices and fully accessible by all staff and students.” (learningonscreen.ac.uk, 2019)

Contents of BOB National

As we can see from the picture above, by accessing the home page of Bob National www.learningonscrean.ac.uk we can see famous TV channels that are playing live at the moment and we can have access and watch them. Also, by pressing the button ‘my BOB’ on the top side of the website we can access our own website that we can create with TV programs that we would prefer to watch.

Although, we can also search from the searching button anything that we would like to

watch that it was already played in the past, such as TV shows, news, documentaries, interviews etc.

When we play one of the videos that we like to, there is the option of showing subtitles on the screen, also on the bottom side of the player it is provided the text of the video, so it is easier for someone to use the text on academic works.

Credibility of BOB National

BOB National is a very useful academic website and it is provided free of charge for

university and college students during their studies. On the bottom side of every video there