Yale University Open Educational Resources Video Lecture Project
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In the fall of 2007, Yale University will launch the Yale Open Educational Resources Video Lecture Project. Funded by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the pilot project will produce video lectures of seven undergraduate courses for free distribution on the Internet. Diana E. E. Kleiner, Dunham Professor of the History of Art and Classics is the principal investigator of the project and the Yale Center for Media and Instructional Innovation (CMI2) is responsible for media development and course production.
The aim of the project is to make educational materials widely available and accessible to the world and to extend the University's reach beyond the walls of Yale. The project will introduce an online curriculum of introductory liberal arts courses taught by some of Yale's most distinguished teachers and scholars.
Taking as its starting point ongoing initiatives at other universities to distribute course syllabi, lecture notes, and reading assignments online, Yale's resources will focus on the actual lectures delivered in the courses. All courses in the pilot year are being shot in High Definition 1080i video for archiving and compressed for streamed viewing the Internet. Yale's multidimensional packaging of the course materials will include full transcripts of the lectures thereby expanding and enhancing existing OpenCourseWare models.
The project's inspiration, as noted on the Hewlett Foundation's Open Educational Resources web page, is the "simple and powerful idea that technology in general and the Worldwide Web in particular provide an extraordinary opportunity for everyone to share, use, and reuse knowledge."
