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Thursday, January 10, 2008

Another tool for e-learning: YouTube lectures?

Check out this latest post from Wired Campus:

Will Lecture Videos on YouTube Appeal to a Popular Audience?

Professors are becoming stars on YouTube, thanks to partnerships between the video-sharing site and colleges (see today’s free article in The Chronicle). So far only a few colleges have joined, but more apparently are looking into it. And new commercial sites, including Big Think, are banking that videos of professors sharing big ideas will appeal to mainstream audiences.

Full post here:
http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/article/2649/will-lecture-videos-on-youtube-appeal-to-a-popular-audience?at

2 comments:

Tony Hirst said...

Hi
I've playing around with making opencourseware available via rss widgets, and was tinkering with the UCB feeds earlier today.
In particular, here's a way of browsing UCB youtube course playlists and searching their youtube video lectures:
http://blogs.open.ac.uk/Maths/ajh59/012375.html
regards
tony

Erik said...

Wow, that is interesting Tony, thanks!