Video, Education, and Open Content - Peter B. Kaufman

Notes from Peter B. Kaufman’s (Intelligent Television, CCNMTL) talk at CCNMTL’s Video, Education and Open Content conference:

The demand for online video has exploded. 100+ million videos watched on YouTube everyday. Fox interactive, Yahoo, Google/YouTube, Viacom, etc. now stream 7 million videos a month. Opportunities to produce video have exploded. FT (Financial Times) has declared that the democratization of video distribution is now underway.

Moving image archiving are digitizing. Personal storage, portability are accelarating. The legal and economic constructs are changing too. Chris Anderson’s new book will be released free and he’s asking people on his blog which title they like better for the book.

It’s time to take the temperature of rich media. At the heart of this meeting is education. There are challenges to educators using new media in the digital age. This meeting features 45 speakers over two days. We are fortunate to have the greatest speakers speaking on these topics (including) University educators, educators outside of the university, people working on best practices for those producing video, technological issues, archiving best practices, teaching and learning best practices, finance best practices, etc.