TED Curator Chris Anderson announced Monday TED’s new new educational initiative TED-Ed, featuring the TED-Ed YouTube channel.

TED-Ed’s mission is to capture and amplify the voices of great educators around the world by “pairing extraordinary educators with talented animators to produce a new library of curiosity-igniting videos.”

A new site, which will launch in early April 2012, will feature these videos and some powerful new learning tools.