Taking the cost and the pain out of media production has become the holy grail of e-learning research. This talk presents a light-weight approach of creating video lectures on the fly on a Tablet PC with free or inexpensive software and uploading them onto YouTube. The experiences made during a 14-week German-language mathematics course for engineering students are reported on. It turned out that the astonishingly deep technical amenities of YouTube offer huge educational potential.
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Free video hosting services such as iTunesU and YouTube EDU are particularly aimed at university lecturers, but remain closed to a small number of admitted institutions and are rarely exploited to their full potential. Rather, virtually all uploaded video lectures stick to a unidirectional, broadcast-type mode, possibly because they are intended to serve as showcases for prospective students. In addition, YouTube currently contains hardly any university-level education material in languages other than English.
Experience with the mathematics course that employed YouTube as one of many media demonstrates that ratings are extremely often used and-together with the search function-attract much interest from users outside the class, without any further advertisement. Some of these subscribe to the video Feed. Some topics enerate much more attention than others do. This talk reports on details.
Tags: conference lecture, Math, YouTube
Herr Birnbaum
Andrea Tegtmeier
Tim Schmidt
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13. August 2009 um 07:38
Brylie Oxley
Hi,
Thank you for your efforts to promote the creation of video lectures for our students. Would it be possible to promote more non-commercial archiving websites? There are great solutions such as http://archive.org and the http://www.archive-it.org syndication service.
Promoting ItunesU is a conflict of interest which helps Apple monetize our educational resources and offers further incentive for our students to fall into the consumer trap of buying Apple devices. We are already subjected to the advertising blitz provided by Apple on campuses across the globe. Can we please not offer them additional free advertisement?
Similarly with YouTube. While being a proven distribution platform, there is again a commercial conflict of interest here. With blinking advertisements and (ir)related videos beckoning, it is easy for students to get sidetracked from their studies.
Thank you for your consideration,
–Brylie
17. August 2009 um 14:44
Herr Birnbaum
I see there no problem in publishing content via iTunes. For shure, Apple get my content but why? Because they develop a good software and they have a phenomenal PR. So when they invest their money, why shouldn’t they get them back? I gave Apple my content and they distribute it for me using their publicity – for free? But I guess iTunes and youtube shouldn’t be the ONLY availible distribution channels.