Matthew Lynch, Tech Edvocate
With thousands upon thousands of videos added to the service every hour, YouTube can be an unwieldy service to parse through for college professors looking for useful and applicable content. With that in mind, we decided to highlight the 10 best YouTube channels for college professors looking for an extra dose of material or inspiration.
https://www.thetechedvocate.org/10-incredibly-useful-youtube-channels-for-professors/
Share on Facebookby Techworm
There has been an increasing demand for ethical hackers (also known as white hat hackers or penetration testers) in the last few decades, as they protect the computer systems from dangerous intrusions. Businesses and government-related organizations that are serious about their network security hire ethical hackers and penetration testers to help probe and improve their networks, applications, and other computer systems with the ultimate goal of preventing data theft and fraud. Ethical hackers or white hat hackers identify weaknesses in data computer security for business and organizations across the globe, to protect them from hackers or criminals with less honest motives. This not only helps them earn a good and honest living but also keeps them away from facing prison time.
http://www.techworm.net/2016/07/10-youtube-channels-learning-ethical-hacking-course-online.html
Share on Facebookby Jeffrey R. Young, Chronicle of Higher Ed
Since well before MOOCs emerged, the University of California at Berkeley has been giving away recordings of its lectures on YouTube and iTunesU. In fact, Berkeley has become one of the most-generous distributors of free lectures on the web, adding some 4,500 hours of video per year. But that web channel, webcast.berkeley.edu, will soon stop adding fresh content. Last month officials announced that, because of budget cuts, the university will no longer offer new lecture recordings to the public, although the videos will still be available to students on the campus.
Share on FacebookBy David Raths, Campus Technology
Whether it’s a recorded lecture for a flipped class or a multimedia student assignment, video has grown into a major component of learning content at today’s colleges and universities. Yet many institutions continue to struggle with managing the abundance of video on campus: Having outgrown YouTube, they desperately need a video platform that can scale to large numbers of people across many locations; stream to many types of devices; allow faculty to create and manage their own video libraries; and share content across multiple schools. In New York state, two groups of higher ed institutions are tackling the problem: The New York Six, a consortium of liberal arts institutions, and the State University of New York system have each taken a collaborative approach to make it easier to manage and share video.
Share on Facebookby David Jesse, Detroit Free Press
Many universities host large online courses that feature a professor lecturing and guiding students through courses they regularly teach in person. However, University of Michigan professor Andrew Maynard’s online education approach is geared toward people interested in a little bit of information on a certain topic, not an entire university course. “Something that has intrigued me is the rise of YouTube as an educational platform,” he said. About six months ago, Maynard started experimenting by posting a simple video on a topic he knows a lot about — risk science. “What does intrigue me here is that not only is there a lot of cool science behind how we understand and address things that potentially affect our health, but that understanding and reducing risks to ourselves is something that everyone has a stake in,” Maynard said. “And in many ways, it’s odd that there isn’t more information widely available on how to make smart decisions on risk that are based on science rather than guesswork.”
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/01/01/michigan-professor-youtube-course/1803171/
Share on Facebookby Salman Khan, Slate
For each individual student, age 8 or 80, the next video would always be a personal discovery. The next set of problems and exercises would constitute a challenge that each person could approach at his or her own tempo; there would be no shame or stigma in progressing slowly, no dreaded moment when the class must move on. The archive of videos would never go away; students could review and refresh as often as necessary. And mistakes would be allowed! There’d be no fear of disappointing a teacher who is looking over one’s shoulder, of appearing dumb in front of a roomful of peers. I passionately believe that the Khan Academy is a tool that can empower at least an approximate model of what the future of education should look like—a way of combining the art of teaching with the science of presenting information and analyzing data, of delivering the clearest, most comprehensive, and most relevant curriculum at the lowest possible cost. I have many reasons for believing this, some to do with technology, some with economics. But perhaps the most compelling is the feedback we have heard from students.
Share on FacebookBy Adriana Lee, TechnoBuffalo
Google has thrown its weight behind Khan Academy, partnering with it in a new competition to discover “educational YouTube stars.” The initiative seeks “10 super talented and engaging content creators” to become Next EDU Gurus, who will benefit from training and promotion, plus receive a $1,000 B&H gift card for video equipment.
From the official announcement:
Do you set historical events to music? Doodle your geometry? Sing your Shakespeare? We’re looking for content creators who create all kinds of curriculum-related videos, from grammar to geography, history to histograms. You can submit any style of video as long as it’s educational and family-friendly–just bear in mind that we’re looking for content creators who can take people on a journey through a topic, so if you could imagine making ten, twenty, or fifty more videos on the topic in the future, all the better!
Share on FacebookBy Nick DeSantis, Chronicle of Higher Ed
YouTube holds a rich trove of videos that could be used in the classroom, but it’s challenging to transform videos into a truly interactive part of a lesson. So the nonprofit group TED has unveiled a new Web site that it hopes will solve this problem—by organizing educational videos and letting professors “flip” them to enhance their lectures. The new Web site, unveiled today, lets professors turn TED’s educational videos—as well as any video on YouTube—into interactive lessons inspired by the “flipped” classroom model. The site’s introduction is the second phase of an education-focused effort called TED-Ed, which began last month when the group released a series of highly produced, animated videos on a new YouTube channel.
Share on FacebookBy Yvonne Ho, Teaching with Technology
I have always enjoyed watching YouTube videos and when I noticed that some of the videos dealt with serious literary topics and had re-enactments of Shakespeare plays, I began to wonder if I could incorporate them into my literature classes. Instead of students just reading a text version of Othello, why not have them also watch a live performance of Othello to get them more motivated to learn literature? I started exploring YouTube and found many different kinds of videos that I could use to supplement my online literature classes. Student feedback has been very positive as they love hearing about the author’s take on why they wrote their latest work. I’ve also found that students are now more interested in literature since it has become more fun and entertaining through the use of multimedia. Here are ten ways literature instructors can use YouTube in class:
Share on FacebookBy Jie Jenny Zou, Chronicle of Higher Ed
A set of educational videos made by a nonacademic in his bedroom closet are now part of a line of college e-textbooks. The upstart textbook publisher Kno Inc. announced on Friday that its digital textbooks will incorporate links to videos by Khan Academy, a nonprofit video library that grew out of Salman Khan’s popular instructional Youtube videos (produced in his home “studio”). That collection has grown to more than 2,400 free videos online, featuring Mr. Khan’s voice with accompanying notations on a digital blackboard. When students click or tap on Kno’s new “Smart Links” feature, they will be directed to a playlist of relevant videos from Khan Academy that have been embedded into an individual page or chapter of a book. The feature is the latest in a series of efforts by the company to engage digital readers with what it calls “added value.”
Share on Facebookby Chareen Snelson, JOLT
YouTube has grown to become the largest and most highly visited online video-sharing service, and interest in the educational use of YouTube has become apparent. Paralleling the rise of academic interest in YouTube is the emergence of YouTube scholarship. This article presents the results of a review of 188 peer reviewed journal articles and conference papers with “YouTube” in the title that were published between 2006 and 2009. Four questions were answered through the review of YouTube literature : (1) What is the overall distribution of publication activity for refereed journal articles and conference papers with “YouTube” in the title? (2) How are publications with “YouTube” in the title distributed across academic disciplines? (3) What have scholars writ ten about instructional methodologies involving YouTube in a sample of literature containing “YouTube” in the title ? (4) What have scholars reported about the results of studies involving YouTube in a sample of literature containing “YouTube” in the title ? An analysis of the publications revealed that the literature emerged from multiple academic disciplines.
http://jolt.merlot.org/vol7no1/snelson_0311.htm
Share on FacebookClark Quinn, author of the forthcoming book “Designing mLearning: Tapping into the Mobile Revolution for Organizational Performance,” will present the models and concepts you need to mobile-enable your employees. This webinar looks at a variety of frameworks that provide the grounding for mobile services, applications and solutions and it arms you with information to make the most of m-learning opportunities. In this session you will learn: • How to think about mobile in a device-independent way • The four core mobile capabilities • Proven ways to take advantage of mobile • Opportunities and issues in mobile solutions ….. Speakers: Clark Quinn Clark Quinn leads learning system design through Quinnovation, providing strategic solutions to Fortune 500, education, government, and not-for-profit organizations. Clark earned his Ph.D. in applied cognitive science from the University of California, San Diego, and has led the design of mobile, performance support, serious games, online learning, and intelligent learning systems. He’s an internationally known speaker and author, with a book on learning game design and another on mobile learning, as well as numerous articles and chapters.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuDt0tHH0qY&feature=youtube_gdata
Share on Facebookby Leena Rao, TechCrunch
Grockit is an online learning community that adds game mechanics to helping high school students prepare for standardized tests such as the GMAT and SAT. The startup, which just raised $7 million in funding, is also moving into general online education for high school and middle school students with impending launch of the Grockit Academy, an online destination where students can learn together and teach each other.
http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/19/grockit-makes-youtube-edu-more-useful/
Share on Facebookby Sam Dean, Ostatic Blog
The idea that lectures and online classes can succeed is nothing new. E-learning is actually big business, and large universities such as U.C. Berkeley are investing in technology and teams to take lectures and classes online. There are also free, open source platforms, such as Moodle, that make it easy for anyone to deliver a lecture or class online. Still, the common denominator for broadcasting online remains YouTube, and that’s why it’s not surprising to see a successful, free and open series of lectures taking shape there. As Physorg.com reports, California-based Sal Khan already has over 1,500 lectures on YouTube, and you can find out more about the Khan Academy lectures here.
http://ostatic.com/blog/khan-academy-explores-free-open-lectures-on-youtube
Share on Facebookby Kevin YEE and Jace HARGIS, TOJDE
The Internet sensation YouTube (http://www.youtube.com) has become such a force online that it was estimated in 2006 to account for a full tenth of the bandwidth by the entire Internet in the United States (WebProNews, 2007), and to use as much bandwidth in 2007 as the entire Internet had done in 2000 (Carter, 2008). Like many technological tools created with entertainment or profit in mind, YouTube can now be easily and usefully adopted by instructors for educational purposes, and indeed many professors use YouTube in their classroom teaching already (Brooks, 2000). This is especially true for passive uses of YouTube; watching videos that are already online and using them in the classroom experience to support a concept and provide another mechanism for students to connect with the topics.
http://tojde.anadolu.edu.tr/tojde38/notes_for_editor/notes_for_editor_1.htm
Share on FacebookRachel Hall, the Guardian
Students are facing a third successive year of online learning, after an Observer analysis suggested that most universities are planning to offer a mix of in-person seminars and online lectures when term begins again this autumn. It prompted fresh calls for students to be refunded at least part of the fees they are charged each year if they are mostly taught online. The exact blend of teaching will depend on social distancing rules and whether young people are double-vaccinated in time. “It’s just not fair to charge £9,250 a year for YouTube tutorials,” said Rhian Shillabeer, a second-year politics student who wrote an open letter to her university, Kent, signed by hundreds of students. Shillabeer, who was angered that all three years of her degree would be disrupted by the pandemic, called for universities to prioritise in-person learning.
Share on FacebookMatthew Lynch, Tech Edvocate
Technology has slowly become a more and more important factor when it comes to education. Many students worldwide have begun using edtech, the internet, and other tools to learn from home and in their own time. Online learning is a relatively new term that has saved the academic year during the Coronavirus pandemic. Many innovative tools and platforms, such as YouTube and Khan Academy, have made this type of education possible. This article will discuss artificial intelligence and the role that technology plays in online learning.
https://www.thetechedvocate.org/mixing-and-matching-how-to-blend-online-learning-and-ai/
Share on FacebookJasmine Park and Amelia Vance, EDUCAUSE Review
Many in higher education believe that students who have grown up using digital technologies (“digital natives”) have little concern for the privacy of their data. Research proves otherwise. This is particularly concerning because many in this age group live much of their academic and personal lives online. A 2018 Pew Research Center survey found that almost all Americans 18 to 24 years old use social media platforms: YouTube (94%), Facebook (80%), Snapchat (78%), Instagram (71%), and Twitter (45%).Footnote2
https://er.educause.edu/articles/2021/2/data-privacy-in-higher-education-yes-students-care
Share on FacebookGRACIE THOMPSON, Eastern Echo
Six EMU professors hosted an online seminar, “Let’s Talk About Online Learning,” on Thursday, August 27 to answer questions and acknowledge the difficulties that students may face during a virtual fall 2020 semester. Due to COVID-19 concerns, most EMU classes are being held online through Zoom, Canvas, or other online applications. This has created a rising number of questions, problems and worries for students who are forced to face this new method of learning. In response to these concerns, Eastern Michigan University held the Aug. 27 webinar, sending an email on Wednesday, August 26 inviting students to register and attend. The webinar was recorded and is available for public viewing on Youtube.
Share on FacebookCourtney Cogburn, Big Think
Often thought of first as gaming tech, virtual reality has been increasingly used in research as a tool for mimicking real-life scenarios and experiences in a safe and controlled environment. Focusing on issues of oppression and the ripple affect it has throughout America’s political, educational, and social systems, Dr. Courtney D. Cogburn of Columbia University School of Social Work and her team developed a VR experience that gives users the opportunity to “walk a mile” in the shoes of a black man as he faces racism at three stages in his life: as a child, during adolescence, and as an adult.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwPtkULgPpU
Share on FacebookMichael Wesch, EDUCAUSE Review
The hard part can be getting the confidence to talk to the camera, but making simple videos for online teaching can help you engage with students. This video was produced by Michael Wesch, professor at Kansas State University. You can find more videos like this on his YouTube channel @Michael Wesch.
https://er.educause.edu/multimedia/2020/7/make-super-simple-videos-for-teaching-online
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