re: From YouTube to UniTube?

david.glance — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 13:06:14 GMT

Whilst I agree that doing this to the exclusion of everything else wouldn't be ideal, it is still a fantastic idea and UCB and UNSW (and the others that do this) have to be applauded for doing this. The Sergey Brin lecture has been viewed 91,579 times and favourited 400 times - apart from all of the good things about universal access to knowledge, flexible delivery to students attending the university, the enhancement of the reputation of the university would be massive.

Contrast this with our approach where everything is largely password protected (even from students and staff at UWA that aren't enrolled in that unit).

We are looking at Apple's product for UWA next week coincidentally.

re: From YouTube to UniTube?

Tama — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 22:48:50 GMT

David, as I said, I agree that having certain lectures, etc., publicly available is a great thing. However, the Sergey Brin example, to my mind at least, is more along the lines of the sort of thing the Institute for Advanced Studies provides with its recording of lectures. I do think that the IAS recordings could be much better publicised, and that might be something that could come out of the iTunesU talk we're having next week.

My concern is that we look at these technologies primarily as top-down delivery platforms, when they have the potential to be so much more. Lectopia has had an upload tool for the best part of this year, but how many examples do you see of student-created media being uploaded in courses? That's the sort of thing I'd like to see people thinking about, rather than all of this congratulatory press about universities embracing [insert new web2.0 tool here].