The educational potential of Open Source video should be explored. Open access, or the free availability on the public internet makes knowledge sharing and the use of web films a reality.
Some of the questions he poses are:
"What are the unique opportunities that the world of education can access by riding this new media revolution?"
His answers are leading the way. Some of the points here he makes about learning:
"The business (for content producers and distributors including
knowledge outlets as educational institutions) is not anymore in having
an audience of a million but to have a million audiences of one."
"What I can learn I can share too. Given unlimited storage, infinite bandwidth and easy
tools to produce, edit and upload it becomes much easier for trainers
and educators to create educational videos that can be easily shared,
re-used, or accessed for very modest fees online."
"Visual Communication is most powerful for learning. Those who can, must or want to use it have no more
excuses to avoid it. Those who will master early the game of effective
low-cost video communication and edutainment will become reference
points for educators and learners as well."
A
very good wood pulp version on the web film issue is the book by Ana Kronschnabl and Tomas Rawlings. It is a
pactical guide about Internet filmmaking for all levels. Highly
recommended for self directed learners, but for educators too.
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