On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, Turner G (Market) wrote:
> Wouldn't it be great if students could switch on the television and see
> their University feeding down course related information to them, even
> receiving lectures from that day, the ones that they just happened to miss
> because their washing machine blew up (or some other lecture dodging
> excuse).
I've been collecting examples of newer web technologies in economics for
CTI Economics and now Economics LTSN. One strong impression from this
exercise is that in the US, the use of lectures in streaming media
(with or without slides) is in its infancy but taking off, with some
very impressive work being done. The whole issue of online teaching
isn't being taken up with anything like comparable gusto in the UK (with
the possible exception of the WebEcon project which is still in
development and will use Java and plug-ins to teach a course in
principles of economics).
See:
http://econltsn.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/resources/video.htm
for examples in streaming media and
http://econltsn.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/resources/newtech.htm
for other technologies. These pages categorise much the same material by
subject within economics:
http://econltsn.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/teaching/welcome.htm
I've just noticed that the most impressive example, a set of 36 lectures
presented in ASX format with synchronised PowerPoint presentation by a
star lecturer at Stanford, has been taken off the public web and hidden
behind authentication. Understandable, I suppose. See
http://stanford-online.stanford.edu/demo/index.html
"Stanford Online offers courses both on-demand and as real-time live
casts. All lectures are archived and can be accessed later for on-demand
viewing."
> I think that the whole subject of education making use of emerging
> technologies needs to be discussed at great length, because if we don't then
> you can guarantee that the private sector will be doing so and they will be
> wasting no time when they realise the full potential.
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