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Berkeley and YouTube

I’m sure we’ll continue to see much more of this: University of California, Berkeley has a YouTube site for streaming video lectures. Not too many lectures posted yet…but the idea is great. And it shows how the current challenge for many educators is not to create more resources or educational content, but to find what’s currently available and get learners to dialogue with each other on the lectures/presentations already existing.

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  1. Hi George, I feel like a teenager when I say you are ‘so’ right. In my profession (midwifery) theres lots of talk about creating fancy software to develop scenarios etc, with a danger of replicating resources at considerable time and expense, yet YouTube and such like provides wonderful opportunities to use video at little or no expense. If we all agreed to take different aspects to work on, what wonderful collaboration that would be. I fear that barriers to this are concerns about intellectual property etc as well as distrust/perceptions of sites like YouTube. Yet, its so easy and worthwhile to do exactly what you say, as well as getting different institutions to dialogue which is more of a challenge.

    Thursday, October 4, 2007 at 2:44 pm | Permalink
  2. Jay Cross wrote:

    George, I love to see the walls coming down but the results aren’t always as good as one would expect. This afternoon I listened to about ten minutes of a Berkeley course via iTunes University. I couldn’t stand any more, even though I know the professor and enjoy the topic. Poor sound, scant attention to those not in the room, and not a learning experience unless you’re really desperate.

    Tuesday, October 9, 2007 at 3:44 am | Permalink