The Use of Video in Higher Ed - Bartosz

I reviewed an article about the increasing use of video. This was a fairly recent article, so the ideas expressed are very relevant to our class and the way high education is and will be heading in the future.

The article is written very positively towards incorporating video technology into classes. Video feeds in distance classes or video logs have become very beneficial resources for students to review. An MIT physics professor Walter H. G. Lewin started to post his lectures on the internet and became a favorite among students as well as many people on the internet who would also download his lessons. The availability of this type of resource in addition to a class is a very crucial way for people learn. The amount of information that can be retained during one class session has a limit to many students. Storing sessions on video feeds to use at later times creates more opportunity to review the material.

To reemphasize the importance of video backlogging the University of Wisconsin Madison : "Using a survey sent to 29,078 undergraduate and graduate students at the university, the report’s authors found that a whopping 82% of undergraduates would prefer a course with lecture capture over one without."

Using online technology is growing and will grow even further. The availability of video resources has grown from 28 colleges to 136 colleges in the last year. The use of iTunes U and youtube university pages have made this technology readily available for everyone to use. In addition to posting video content, educators are starting to collaborate in exchanging and sharing course resources with each other. Websites such as The Opencast Community Project are used to link universities together around the world.

The use of these video tools in universities and distance education is becoming crucial in the way we learn. Although this article talks more about a blended learning environment, I think that sharing courses over public domains such as youtube can create opportunities for even more distance learning. I think this article is a glimpse of what schools will develop into as technology grows.

This distance educator article was linked from another website called streaming media.
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