Discovery Education Streaming Video

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.