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Hugo Domingos

Students: Video lectures allow for more napping | eCampus News - 0 views

  • although many students supported the technology because it freed up more time for napping and hanging out with friends.
  • hey would only attend a live lecture if an exam were scheduled for that day, or to borrow notes from a classmate.
  • that it could lead to a drop in attendance at the live lectures themselves.
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  • that they allow students to go back and review the content as needed.
  • nterCall survey of 504 college-aged respondents, because web-based lectures would allow them to work longer hours and watch the videos during their free time.
  • said they “learn more effectively” with online lectures, and 54 percent “report that their grades improve when lectures are streamed via video online,”
  • They can’t be bothered with things that require stepping out of their own comfort and convenience zone,” she said. “Rather than adapt themselves … they want things the way they want things. College isn’t Burger King—you can’t always have it your way.”
  • The potential isolation of online learning didn’t affect student opinions; nearly half “prefer joining their classes online rather than interacting in person with their classmates and professors.”
Hugo Domingos

Wowza Boosts Student Learning at Hundreds of Universities Around the World with Video S... - 1 views

  • today announced that more than 500 universities and colleges on four continents are using Wowza Media Server® technology to deliver live, on demand and interactive content to students and faculty on multiple players and devices, including Flash® and iPhone®.
  • The collegiate market is among the most aggressive adopters of streaming media technology solutions as the modern campus expands beyond the traditional four walls of classrooms, labs and lecture halls and the Internet is an increasingly inseparable component of learning curriculum
  • online education sector grew 13 percent last year and had been growing at about 20 percent in previous years.
    • Hugo Domingos
       
      I would check this data. 20% grow?
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  • Universities are discovering that lecture capture is a competitive advantage and of great benefit to 'millennial' learners, who are accustomed to convenience and to on-demand access to myriad content sources," said Alan Greenberg
  • the University of New South Wales in Sydney found the Wowza servers to be much more cost effective and easier to maintain than its separate legacy QuickTime™ and Windows® streaming servers,
  • With Wowza Media Server 2 we are able to consolidate our media resources onto a single platform, while also opening the door to new campus IPTV and iPhone streaming capabilities for our UNSWTV and lecture recording services,"
  • Many other universities are leveraging the Wowza Media Server's iPhone and IPTV streaming capabilities to expand enrollment and make courses and other content such as athletics widely available outside
  • "Wowza is focused on helping educators make learning more accessible and affordable by using online video content," said Dave Stubenvoll,
  • Wowza Media Server was named Best Server Hardware/Software in the Streaming Media Readers' Choice Awards in 2008 and 2009, and received the 2009 Best Innovation award for Wowza Media Server 2
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    Argumentos para uso on-demand video em universidades. Razões para escolher Womza Media Server
Hugo Domingos

The Argument for Free Classes via iTunes - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com - 2 views

  • More than 600 schools post lectures to the two-year-old service
  • Apple now says it has about 250,000 individual classes available to the public.
  • with more than 375,000 downloads a week, is Open University,
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  • “We are now reaching people all around the world that, without iTunes U, we never would have touched,” said its vice-chancellor, Martin Bean, formerly the general manager of Microsoft’s education products group
  • Mr. Bean looks at iTunes U and YouTube as free marketing — an opportunity to take “all those active inquiries and those leisure learners and expose them to who we are as a university.
  • Other universities say that limited resources, copyright concerns or the reluctance of old-fashioned professors are keeping them from recording and uploading lectures.
  • The courage comes from taking the next leap of faith. Universities no longer define themselves by their content but the overall experience: the concept, the student support, the tutoring and mentoring, the teaching and learning they get and the quality of the assessment.”
Glenn Hoyle

Course Hero - Homework Help, Homework Solutions, Test Answers, Lecture Notes & Exams - 0 views

  • "400,000 courses at more than 3,500 institutions ..."
  • "holds a library of more than two million course documents ..."
  • "post and download syllabuses, worksheets, essays, previous exams .
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  • "encourage students to submit their schoolwork for mass consumption ..
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