Box of Broadcasts - iPlayer for education
Television and radio broadcast content is now available as an online
streaming service to thousands of students and researchers for the first
time following the launch of Box of Broadcasts (BoB National) by the
JISC part-funded British Universities Film and Video Council (BUFVC).
The off-air recording and video archive service is available to staff
and students of the Education Recording Agency (ERA) licensed member
institutions. Like the BBC 'iPlayer', it allows users to watch or listen
to programmes missed in the last week. However, unlike iPlayer,
programmes to air over the coming seven days can be scheduled, recorded
and do not expire. This means they can be archived and available
indefinitely, making it invaluable for lecturers and students requiring
constant access.
The BUFVC has been piloting BoB National with its partners, Bournemouth
University and Cambridge Imaging Systems and there are thousands of
users already signed up. BoB National is self-perpetuating, so the more
institutions sign up and record programmes, the more content is made
available to other users.
Find out more about BoB at http://www.bufvc.ac.uk/services/bob.html
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