Liberatore YouTube Problems
Starting in 2008, Professor Liberatore and his students at the Colorado School of Mines created YouTube Fridays. The first 5 minutes of Friday's class included student-selected YouTube videos relating course topics to the real world. Choosing videos later turned into a class assignment where students write problems that reverse engineer videos. We affectionally call these video-inspired, student-written problems YouTube problems.
With support from the , we are studying engineering student problem solving skills when solving student-written YouTube problems. Many useful resources from videos to worksheets to publications are compiled below.
Bringing YouTube problems to your classroom
Videos made by our team about creating your own YouTube problems are on our .
Videos selected by students for creating YouTube Problems
Playlists with hundreds of videos are available on our .
Publications about YouTube problems
In the journal , we detailed how using videos both engaged students and led to new insights about
engineering concepts.
In the journal , Professors Liberatore, Vestal, and Herring detailed how using YouTube videos to
create engineering estimate problems.
In the journal , we detailed how YouTube problems used as homework in heat transfer translated to
higher final exam scores for the treatment group.
We have many conference proceedings papers from the that compliment our journal papers on YouTube problems.
In , our team found similar problem difficulty and problem solving for expert-written
textbook and student-written YouTube problems.
In , our team found similar problem difficulty and problem solving for expert-written
textbook and student-written YouTube problems.
Problem solving and problem difficulty were compared for control and treatment groups
and for two different cohorts of each group. This paper captures our findings.
Free educational resources
Designing a YouTube problems assignment
Follow this worksheet detailing how to create YouTube problems. In person workshops can also be scheduled by contacting Professor Liberatore.
YouTube problems in K12 education
Examples with rubrics for K12 Science Education from Ms. Stevens and Mrs. Kuhl. Newton's Laws or Balancing a chemical reaction.
YouTube problems in engineering education
Example assignments from Professors Liberatore and Malefyt for Material and Energy Balances, Fluid Mechanics, Separations, and Graduate Fluid Mechanics. Also, a rubric as a pdf for grading engineering problems.