New in the Columbia College Library
VAST: Academic Video Online
(please use this full URL when adding to syllabus, Moodle, email, etc.)
The Vast: Academic Video Online database from Alexander Street Press currently provides faculty with over 13,000 video titles from a wide range of disciplines, with new titles being added on a regular basis. By 2013 VAST expects to have over 20,000 films available for faculty and students.
Faculty can easily provide links to high-quality video in their syllabus and embed links or video clips in their Moodle class.
Disciplines covered in VAST include:
- American History
- Area Studies
- Art and Architecture
- Business and Economics
- Counseling and Therapy
- Dance
- Education
- Ethinic Studies
- Ethonography
- Health
- Humanities
- Law & Criminal Justice
- Opera
- Politics & Current Affairs
- Psychology
- Religion & Philosophy
- Science
- Theatre
- Women & Gender Studies
- World History
- World Language & Literature
With the VAST platform features you can:
- Create and share custom clips and playlists
- Speed-Browse the video with a visual TOC
- View synchronized scrolling transcripts alongside each video, search the transcript while watching, and jump forward and backward to search your term
- Cite whole videos or your custom clips using permanent URLs
- Email, share, and embed links in Moodle
- Access the videos with your mobile device (iPhone, iPad, Android)
To add a specific video to your class:
- Select the video you want to use
- Click on the Embed/Link option
- Copy the PERMALINK and past it into your syllabus or Moodle class
