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Video for culture & education

Research

The Open Education Video Project

University teaching and learning is involving more and more video and audio. Video (the word “video,” as used here, embraces modern moving-image content and technology, and “audio” the same for recorded sound) is being deployed in the physical classroom to enrich the classroom experience. Video and audio are coming to populate online and distance learning experiences. Video and audio recordings are being made to distribute university lectures and university-based events for audiences well beyond the university campus. As the production and distribution of video and audio increases, the implications for open education initiatives grow more profound.

Intelligent Television and Columbia University’s Center for New Media Teaching and Learning embarked on a new project with the support of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation to increase the understanding of educators, technologists, video producers, and other stakeholders in how video and open education can work together for the public good. The project sponsored a survey of university uses of video nationwide; prepared detailed case studies of the use of video at two universities; consulted with the Hewlett Foundation on the production of video-recorded lectures; prepared a white paper recommending new approaches to sustain open educational video; and conducted a review meeting on open education and video where these stakeholders in the future of open educational video can better plan for its future. The video and audio from this meeting are available online at:

http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/opencontent/index.html

The Open Education Video Project has built upon the work that Intelligent Television and Columbia University have been conducting in the area of educational video, open productions, and commercial-noncommercial collaborations. The project has been helping to define new approaches—economic, legal, and editorial—to the creation and distribution of important new resources for open education.

See also: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/news/libraries/2006/2006-08-25.hewlettgrant.html

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Tools to explore

Video Interactions for Teaching and Learning (VITAL) is a web-based learning environment that enables students to view, analyze, and communicate ideas with video. VITAL was originally created to help students practice their observation and interpretation skills in developmental psychology courses at Columbia University’s Teachers College. Today VITAL is deployed in a wide range of courses and disciplines across Columbia University, from the School of Social Work to the School of the Arts.

Archives for today

San Francisco Bay Area Television Archive

The San Francisco Bay Area Television Archive, established in 1982, preserves more than 4,000 hours of newsfilm, documentaries, and other programs produced in northern California between 1939 and 2005. Among the treasures recently put online are 1960s films of James Baldwin and Maya Angelou and Marlon Brando speaking at the funeral of Black Panther Bobby Hutton. The Archive is part of San Francisco State University Library’s Department of Special Collections.

What we're watching

Forum Network
Involving public media and partners in video online.

Vectors
A new journal in a dynamic vernacular.

Photograph of Jesus
Plus a group shot of the men on the moon.

What we're reading

Mobile Video Capture Soars; Now Brace Yourself for Views and Uploads

Pew reports 34 % of U.S. cell phone customers use their phones to record video. GigaOm reports on this, and notes that YouTube mobile videos increased 160 percent in 2009. Visit Mobile Video Capture Soars; Now Brace Yourself for Views and Uploads

http://wendy.seltzer.org/anticircumvention.pdf

Wonderful piece by Wendy Seltzer about DRM, anti-circumvention, and innovation. "DRM frustrates lawful use and the creation of new technology products with- out saving the entertainment companies from the uncompensated reproduction they feared. In the meantime, it forecloses the open innovation that could lead them and society toward new options that could be better for [...]

AIMS project / born digital archives

"The AIMS project, funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, represents a co-operative strategy among four partner institutions, to energize collection development in the area of born-digital papers, and to empower librarians and archivists in the management of born-digital assets. The four partners in the project led by the University of Virginia are Stanford University, [...]

Digital Lives

Digital Lives has produced some of the best work on personal archiving, and is holding a seminar about it on Monday, 5 July. Visit Digital Lives