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Young, Jeffrey R. – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2008
College faculty members have recently begun creating homemade videos to supplement their lectures, using free or low-cost software. These are the same technologies that make it easy for students to post spoof videos on YouTube, but the educators are putting the tools to educational use. Students tune in to the short videos more often than they…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, College Faculty, Teacher Developed Materials, Instructional Improvement
Young, Jeffrey R. – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2008
College faculty members have recently begun creating homemade videos to supplement their lectures, using free or low-cost software. These are the same technologies that make it easy for students to post spoof videos on YouTube, but the scholars are putting the tools to educational use. The professors say that students tune in to the short videos…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, College Faculty, Teacher Developed Materials, Hypermedia
Young, Jeffrey R. – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2008
Cloud computing, one of the latest technology buzzwords, is so hard to explain that Google drove a bus from campus to campus to walk students through the company's vision of it. After students sat through a demo at computers set up nearby, they boarded the bus and got free T-shirts. The bus only stopped at colleges that had already agreed to hand…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Internet, Information Technology, Electronic Mail
Young, Jeffrey R. – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2003
Discusses why a researcher is saying that designers of the college-entrance examination, in trying to create a reliable test, may be guaranteeing bias. (EV)
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Higher Education, Racial Bias, Test Bias