| For teaching students to search | |
| For acquainting students with resources they may use for future projects or to begin focusing on a topic of study | |
| To organize students general background information on a topic |
| University of Illinois | RealAudio narration synchronized with automatically refreshed web pages. |
| Michigan State | RealVideo synchronized with PowerPoint slides. |
| Computer Channel, Inc. (CCI) | RealVideo synchronized with PowerPoint slides and a transcript of the lecture. |