The document discusses opportunities for online video production and distribution for educational purposes. It notes the explosion in online video consumption and the declining costs of storage and distribution. This creates opportunities to produce educational video and make it openly available through universities and cultural institutions. It suggests evaluating how video impacts teaching and building new tools to support more efficient video production, collaboration and distribution worldwide for educational purposes.
1. Video, Education, and Open Content: Best Practices Production, Distribution, Technology, and Law Columbia University New York May 22, 2007
2. The demand for online video has exploded 100+ million videos watched on YouTube every day; Fox Interactive, Yahoo, Google/YouTube, Viacom, etc.—now stream 7 billion videos/month; BitTorrent – number-one file format on the Internet http://www.oculture.com/
3. Opportunities to produce video are exploding http:// www.apple.com/ilife/imovie / http://www.adobe.com/products/premiere/ http://www.pinnaclesys.com/PublicSite/us/Home/ http://www.jumpcut.com/ “Be good to your video.” http://grouper.com/ “Watch. Share. Create.” http://www.eyespot.com/ “Moviemaking for all of us.” http://www.videoegg.com/ “People-powered media.” http:// video.google.com/videoplay?docid =-1926631993376203020 18:48-17:58
5. Personal storage, portability are accelerating Over the past 25 years: - computer processing performance up x 3,500 - computer memory prices down x 45,000 - computer disk storage prices down x 3.6 million Over the next 13 years: an iPod, or a device its size, will be able to hold: - a year’s worth of video (8,760 hours) by 2012 (5 years from now) - all the commercial music ever created by 2015 (8 years), and - all the content ever created (in all media) by 2020 (13 years).
