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Showing posts with label podcasts. Show all posts

Thursday, March 5, 2009

YouTube lectures

Did you see this article about a UNSW academic using YouTube as his content provider?
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2009/03/04/1235842462189.html



Pity it doesn't really share what the students think of it - but it does emphasize the benefit of creating short pieces of content for the teachers - its re-usability - in this case, for high school students.

I remember a few years ago the sound of dropping jaws world wide when MIT announced that it was going to put all of its content freely available online - as it was the not the content that was the mark of the MIT experience, it was the learning activities that really made the difference. It is what the student does that is important.

Besides YouTube, iTunesU also provides good systems for distributing and organising content (audio and video) - see promotional video here. We need to factor this mobile dimension of learning into our thinking about delivery options.