YouTube is arguably the easiest platform for sharing video online. But for some time, YouTube has limited the length of video that is allowed on its site to fifteen minutes or less. This restriction is partly in place to deter...
TED, for Technology, Entertainment, Design, has become one of the Internet's most recognized brands devoted to "ideas worth sharing." TED has spawned a number of initiatives, such as TEDTalks, TEDx, and TED Prize. Their newest initiative, TED-Ed, aims to be...
Embed Plus is a free web-based YouTube enhancement tool, which is great for segmenting, annotating, and providing interactive tools on video for educational purposes. With a simple YouTube link, Embed Plus loads the video and provides a web interface for...
Open educational resources are digitized materials that are offered freely online as teaching and learning resources to educators, researchers, students, and self-learners. The topic of open education resources, including why, where and how to distribute them, has become a hot...
Instructors have been using video recordings to assign self-evaluation exercises for many years. Video recordings of performances, clinical interventions, role-playing exercises, and presentations offer useful material for analysis and self-critique. To carry out these assignments on the web, videos must...
This past May, video recordings of Columbia University's 2010 commencement ceremonies were published to YouTube. A number of Columbia videos quickly rocketed to the top of YouTube EDU's most viewed list, creating an excellent opportunity to examine how the YouTube...
[Editor's note, May 17, 2010: MPEG Streamclip is once again working for YouTube media with updated version.] [Editor's note, April 5, 2010: YouTube disabled downloading in a recent change to their system.] Many instructors use streaming videos from YouTube to...
The Columbia on YouTube EDU channel was selected as one of a limited set of partner channels to feature YouTube's new automatic captioning services. See our news posting announcing this release. These new features are Automatic Captions & Automatic Timing....
YouTube Time- If you'd like to quickly generate a new link to a YouTube video that specifies a particular starting point within the video, try YouTube Time. Just insert a link to a YouTube video on this website, then specify...
As YouTube improves its video service, it becomes ever more attractive to educators. Universities are getting into the act by creating "partner" channels (a special designation in the YouTube account system) to collect and distribute the institution's course and promotional videos.