Bring Your Teaching to Life—On Camera
Whether you’re educating, promoting, or presenting, our team helps you create professional-quality videos tailored for global audiences.
See Our Work in Action
View our sample reel to see the range of styles, formats, and subjects we’ve brought to life in partnership with Yale faculty.
Teaching Studios Scope of Work
The Poorvu Center Teaching Studios team (formerly known as “Yale Broadcast”) advances our organization’s overall mission to promote equitable and engaged teaching, support students as they take ownership of their learning, and make education more reflective, collaborative, and public. In addition to changing the team name in April 2025, the Poorvu Center clarified the unit’s scope of work. The information below describes how the Teaching Studios team engages with the Yale community.
Productions We Support
As media production experts, the Broadcast team:
- Collaborates with instructors in the Faculty of Arts & Sciences and all Professional Schools to create media for teaching in online and residential courses and programs, for Yale students and global learners
- Builds short-form content educational content, including podcasts and videos
- Makes visible the reality that the Yale community is comprised of learners and instructors of all backgrounds and abilities and helps develop practices that promote inclusive teaching
- Creates media to share best practices for teaching and learning, which are intended for both the Yale community and the global community of teachers and learners
- Develops content to advance all Poorvu Center activities, initiatives, and programs
Due to our collection of expertise and infrastructure, we provide:
- Production leadership of signature University events (ex. Commencement, Yale College Opening Assembly, GSAS Matriculation)
- Production support for live events with President’s Office
- Production support for the Office of the Provost, and Development Office events and activities
- Production support for faculty and Yale leaders to make media appearances from our Broadcast Studio, located at 135 College Street
- Production advice to Schools and Academic Units that wish to capture public events
Productions We Decline
When capacity allows, as determined by Poorvu Center leadership, the Teaching Studios team may be able to assist the broader Yale community with additional activities, such as:
- Production Support for members of the Yale community who wish to use the studio facilities at 135 College, the Poorvu Center (SML location), and Poorvu North to create original video or audio content
- Production support for sensitive University events (ex. Memorial services)
- Event recordings without a clear connection to teaching and learning but a plan for external distribution
- Guidance and/or production support for marketing videos
- Guidance and/or production support for the FAS and Professional School Deans
We do not support recordings without a clear connection to teaching and learning or plan for external distribution. Here are examples of activities that are out-of-scope for Poorvu Center’s Teaching Studios team:
- Production support for events taking place off-campus
- Basic Audio/Visual support
- Work for non-Yale entities
- Requests to provide an event microphone amplification
Production Gallery
View the collection of videos below to get a sample of our production styles. The goal of every project is to shine a light on our faculty, position Yale as the university most committed to teaching, and to serve our global audience with relevant materials.
New Course Promotion
Green Screen Lesson Video
Social Media Content
Studio Recording & Street Interviews
David Blight
In Fall 2024, Sterling Professor of History David Blight presented Can It Happen Here Again? Yale, Slavery, the Civil War, and Their Legacies—an exploration of Yale’s ties to slavery, the nation’s first great crisis of democracy, and the enduring legacies that shape American life today.
The DeVane Lectures invite the New Haven community into Yale’s classrooms and offer the public a window into the university’s scholarship. Our production team records and shares these lectures to broaden their reach and preserve their impact for future learners.
Timothy Snyder
In 2022, Yale historian Timothy Snyder opened his popular lecture course The Making of Modern Ukraine to the world, offering historical context for the Russian invasion by tracing the global significance of Ukrainian lands across millennia.
Our production team captured and shared the full series online, turning around videos in one day. Our efforts helped millions engage with this urgent, complex history as it unfolded. Publishing the course on YouTube exemplifies Yale’s commitment to public scholarship.
Year after year, Yale Teaching Studios delivers with outstanding results. High-level production, professionalism, and close attention to detail.
Rich Collins, Director of Online Education and Information Systems, Yale Summer Session
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