YouTube Creates Section for Higher Ed

(March 26, 2009) Late in March, the well known video distribution site YouTube released a section for colleges and universities. Many institutions have been using YouTube as a way to post or distribute videos but prior to the introduction of YouTube EDU, videos weren’t actually organized into any type of educational or institutional collection. YouTube EDU now allows all content produced by educational institutions to be presented in a cohesive fashion. YouTube EDU also allows educational institutions to create a “home page”. These changes give the video services site some services that are available with Apple’s iTunes U.