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A computer science professor at an Australian University is doing something revolutionary with YouTube - he's offering students who can't attend his classes college credit for watching his videos. Richard Buckland, a senior lecturer at the University of NSW in Sydney, Australia, was frustrated that high school students with a passion for computing and capable of studying at the college level were not able to make the commute to the university fit into their school day. Buckland then decided to turn YouTube into a remote classroom where the students could attend lectures virtually and then complete coursework just as his other students do.

This is a remix of youtube videos to create something new and interesting. I love this. If you have time take a look. \n"What you are about to see is a mix of unrelated YouTube videos/clips edited together to create Thru You. In other words- what you see is what you hear."

"It is reading season at the Tufts University admissions office, time to plow through thousands of essays and transcripts and recommendations - and this year, for the first time, short YouTube videos that students could post to supplement their application." About 1,000 of the 15,000 applicants submitted videos. Some have gotten thousands of hits on YouTube. "

Really interesting. Thanks for posting this.

The Ash Institute has a youtube page with videos on networked governance. This is a video of a talk on " Innovations in Participation: Citizen Engagement in Deliberative Democracy"

YouTube: Sneak Preview of Wolfram|Alpha search engine.

From the Techapresident post: "Does the Internet Matter?": That's the title of a new report out from Temple University's Institute for Business and Information Technology. Making use of some techPresident data, Temple's Sunil Wattal, David Schuff, and Munir Mandviwalla considered how social media in particular shaped the '08 presidential primaries. Their conclusion? While YouTube and MySpace may help lesser-known candidates find footing, only blogs seem to correlate with boosts in Gallup poll numbers. ( You might notice that the report requires a password, but we've got one for you: "templeowls.")

This week, Stanford has started to roll out a new course, Einstein's General Theory of Relativity. Taught by Leonard Susskind, one of America's leading physics minds, this course is the fourth of a six-part sequence - Modern Physics: The Theoretical Minimum - that traces the development of modern physics, moving from Newton to Black Holes. As the title suggests, this course focuses squarely on the groundbreaking work of Albert Einstein. And, it's undoubtedly a plus that the course was presented in Stanford's Continuing Studies program, which means that it's tailored to smart non-specialists like you. You can watch the first lecture on iTunes here, or YouTube below. The remaining lectures will be rolled out on a weekly basis. If you would like to watch the longer sequence of courses, I have provided a complete list of links here. Enjoy.

This probably also apples to change theory....

Nominalism fully debunked.  The keynote from EDUCAUSE.  

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what separates College 2.0 from the anonymity of Web 2.0 is not just that you have to put your name behind your words, but that college gives us the chance to practice what our blogs preach...a shift from education as primarily information intake (watching a Hollywood movie), to education as action (posting our own movie on YouTube)...This is education by doing, or education based on the idea that we can get things done. Now....college plays an integral role as an enabler of what we want to do...college has given me the confidence to speak up when someone has the wrong idea - like the theory that college is dying. It's not dying, it's rebooting.

What would John Dewey make of this?

"I recently created a stand-alone page for my video Web 2.0 and your own Learning and Development... ... it has been found by a few people, including Marian Thacher, who discusses it here. One note: she says, "all of this only works for the very motivated learner... what about that learner who isn't so motivated, who has some learning challenges, for whom school was more of a misery than a joy?" Quite so - which is why I stress enabling students to manage their own learning and to follow their own interests. Otherwise, they won't be motivated, and the rest of this stuff is not nearly as effective as it could be. Marian Thacher, Adult Education and Technology, March 17, 2009. [Link] [Tags: Schools, Twitter, Online Learning, Web 2.0, Video, Google, YouTube] "

Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. For his next project, he's building a web for open, linked data that could do for numbers what the Web did for words, pictures, video: unlock our data and reframe the way we use it together.

A funny, personal, and surprisingly moving talk about Tom Waits, Allah, and poems that come like trains of air.

"The 2008 election will be the first where the Internet will play a central role, not only in terms of how the campaigns use technology, but also in how voter-generated content affects its course. TechPresident.com plans to track all these changes in real-time, covering everything from campaign websites, online advertising and email lists to the postings on YouTube and who's got the fastest growing group of friends on MySpace."

The Networked Student was inspired by CCK08, a Connectivism course offered by George Siemens and Stephen Downes during fall 2008. It depicts an actual project completed by Wendy Drexler's high school students. The Networked Student concept map was inspired by Alec Couros' Networked Teacher. I hope that teachers will use it to help their colleagues, parents, and students understand networked learning in the 21st century. Anyone is free to use this video for educational purposes. You may download, translate, or use as part of another presentation. Please share.

This video should be required viewing for incoming faculty. Especially the end of the video; it gives a good description of the new roles faculty can take when they leave the lecture stand. Thanks Stephen

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