Baseball Test May Show if Web Video's Time Has Come
Quote: "Baseball officials say the time is right for a video service that will cost $6 to $10 a month because nearly 20 percent of American homes have high-speed, or broadband, Internet connections, which can handle high-quality video Webcasts."
Comment: Aside from the bigger question of creating a business model for selling content on the Internet, web video has a future. Earlier this year, we experimented with a course taught via streaming video...results were generally positive, but the experience highlighted that video is still not ready for "prime time learning" - bandwidth, learning the ins and outs of video, understanding how online video is different from regular video, making video interactive (we used a chat tool to add question and answer...but because of buffering, we had to deal with a 10 - 30 second delay...so answering questions required going back to points already covered), etc. Still, even with its limitations/challenges, streaming video has much to offer elearning...