Research

Intelligent Television (with Channel Thirteen/WNET as its fiscal sponsor) has received two years of seed support from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation to establish a new Open Education Video Studio to catalyze and coordinate video production for the open education resource movement.

The Open Education Video Studio will cost-effectively produce educational video for university needs and make it broadly available. The Studio also will evaluate the use of such video in teaching and learning and build new tools for more cost-efficient video production and distribution worldwide. The Studio’s Production unit will cost-effectively produce educational video for university needs and make it broadly available, catalyzing new open production initiatives at educational institutions and through educational consortia. The Studio’s Research and Development unit will evaluate the use of such video in teaching and learning and build new tools—editing, annotation, search, summarization—for more cost-efficient video production and distribution worldwide.

In its first year, the Studio also will host intensive meetings for educators, technologists, video producers, and other stakeholders who together will help to articulate a sustainability plan for the studio’s productions and research and development projects. In its second year, the Studio will work to organize new multi-institutional collaborations into a distributed educational video production network, and help establish a new educational video commons to define best practices in video preservation and access.

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