tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15724579.post3660860766886111076..comments2024-02-13T03:00:19.778-07:00Comments on Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development: YouTube.com/edu - A glimpse at the future of education?bschlenkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13519463877110474192noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15724579.post-10108522374763207512009-04-08T12:18:00.000-07:002009-04-08T12:18:00.000-07:00I believe:Education is mediahttp://groups.google.c...I believe:<BR/>Education is media<BR/>http://groups.google.com/group/meduaPlasmidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13050210026836685770noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15724579.post-8135588705535220832009-03-27T17:38:00.000-07:002009-03-27T17:38:00.000-07:00Oh, and this looks like another interesting take o...Oh, and this looks like another interesting take on the online edu content http://academicearth.org/, which describes itself as "Thousands of video lectures from the world's top scholars." Why drag my ass in to college to see some ill suited researcher doing some obligatory podium time when I can get this on my laptop in the coffee shop at the end of the road?..dan rhttp://learningrocks.co.uknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15724579.post-32800264853810765612009-03-27T17:01:00.000-07:002009-03-27T17:01:00.000-07:00Hey BrentOU, the future? It's been around a long t...Hey Brent<BR/><BR/>OU, the future? It's been around a long time. It was founded back in the day to find a use for the newly created city of Milton Keynes. Despite that inauspicious start I do believe it is quite a well respected university and sits comfortably in the UK national rankings.<BR/><BR/>I do think however that you may be right insofar as the distance learning model was all well and good, but it really needed the Internet to be invented and come along to make it more worthwhile, in which case they should really be hitting their stride.<BR/><BR/>And usefully, as a publicly funded and minded body they are throwing a lot of money into worthwhile programs, like offering a lot of their peripheral content out for the world to use and funding FOSS projects like Moodle.<BR/><BR/>And you get to go to Joshua Tree, while me and my boy have to make do with resin holds on the inside of a converted church here in Bristol :(dan rhttp://learningrocks.co.uknoreply@blogger.com