Discovery Education claims to have “4,000 full-length videos segmented into 40,000 content-specific clips.” (Discovery Education, 2007) They also say that streaming video empowers educators to:
• Expand students' horizons using new multimedia content for all subjects from leading educational publishers
• Create and innovate with Assignment Builder, Quiz Center, Writing Prompt Generator, and other resources
• Save time with fast and accurate search functionality and dynamic navigation menus
• Customize and personalize lessons to different subjects, grades, and learning styles
What I think would make video more accessible to students and allow for more just-in-time learning opportunities would be a searchable video data base that is built on keywords embedded in the video itself and retrieval by time code.
Additionally, combining a massive video database like Discovery Education’s with a Music Genome Project type intelligent learnable automated music recommendation service to create a automated video service that works with learning students to offer video segments aligned with what they are currently studying.
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Brad,
Thanks for publishing this link. I see this as a useful resource for inner-city youth who are looking for alternative ways to learn.
Regarding the blog itself, make it easy for users to make comments. Personally, I am adversed to creating new accounts each time I want to access a site. This is not your issue. The issue is has to do with free services.
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