The Columbia University channel on YouTube EDU gives faculty, students, and the public access to Columbia-produced videos of lectures, events, and promotional content on the popular YouTube platform. The new channel, which already includes over 100 videos, enables instructors and administrators to publish and share videos online for educational, promotional, and general use.
YouTube EDU organizes videos from over 100 universities and colleges in one convenient place and includes over 200 full course videos from leading universities, including MIT, Stanford, UC Berkeley, UCLA, Yale, and now, Columbia. The platform offers a more robust set of features than regular YouTube channels, allowing videos to run longer than 10 minutes on a Columbia-branded, ad-free site. Features like annotations, tagging, and high definition also enhance the viewing experience, and videos can be easily embedded in blogs, wikis, or course sites.
Columbia on YouTube Features
- Free publishing of Columbia-produced videos.
- Hosting of long-form videos (longer than 10 minutes -- up to three hours).
- High definition web video.
- Easy sharing features.
- "Unlisted" videos that are not accessible via browsing or searching.
- Text annotations, captions and subtitles, and tagging.
- Automatic audio-to-text captioning, as well as instant text caption translation into a foreign languages.
- Ad-free, and education-specific "Related Videos".
- Columbia University branding.
What You Can Do with Columbia on YouTube
- Archive videos created for Columbia courses, like presentations, demonstrations, or full lectures.
- Promote video recordings of notable campus events and conferences.
- Embed videos into Courseworks, EdBlogs, or Wikispaces.
- Send videos to social networking sites like Facebook & Twitter.
Getting Started with YouTube
Columbia's YouTube channel is available at http://www.youtube.com/columbia. All Columbia video content on YouTube is searchable via YouTube EDU. Contact an educational technologist to learn more about Columbia on YouTube and using online video for educational purposes by emailing ccnmtl-youtube@columbia.edu.
