Research

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. 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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