I'm really excited about these courses as well. Most of my recommendations have been echoed by others. From a purely technical standpoint I think the videos need better encoding. Normally they are fine but when there is too much motion (which doesn't happen often) the image becomes really blocky. Perhaps you need a second pass on the encoding process?
These observations were from the ECON videos (watched in flash and no other format) particularly the first two about Nash Equilibrium. O Alex Kozak wrote: > Matt, > > Great to hear that you've chosen to use CC licenses and I'd love to have a > chat with you about your licensing decisions (CC BY-NC-SA). We've put out a > few Recommendation papers that are very relevant to your project: > http://learn.creativecommons.org/productions/#Recommendations > > I'd also love to chat about implementing the ccREL metadata spec as well as > our DiscoverEd metadata recommendation ( > http://wiki.creativecommons.org/CcLearn_Search_Metadata) in order for your > educational content to be searchable by our (and other) semantic search > engines (our prototype is at http://discovered.creativecommons.org/search/). > > Another advantage to implementing the ccREL metadata spec is the ability to > specifiy additional rights to the CC license you chose with CC+ (for > example, a link to a page where someone could secure commercial or trademark > rights). http://wiki.creativecommons.org/CCPlus > > I also know that the Open Video folks on this list (and myself) would love > to see OGG/Theora implementation instead of/in addition to Quicktime and > Flash. > > - Alex > > On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 4:12 PM, Matthew O. Brimer <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Hi all, >> I'm doing some strategy consulting for Yale these days, and one of the >> projects I'm working on is *a compila**tion of strategic** recommendations >> for Yale's open courseware initiative*, called Open Yale Courses: * >> http://oyc.yale.edu*. OYC has some great content (in the form of HD video >> lectures from selected courses), available in multiple formats. But it also >> has some glaring needs and inadequacies. >> >> *I'd love to hear your thoughts on how we can improve things.* Feel free >> to be frank -- the OYC site <http://oyc.yale.edu> is far from perfect and >> could use some serious improvements. What needs to be changed? What would >> YOU like to see? If Yale's current open courseware site design, syndication >> strategy and content offerings were *yours to disseminate, syndicate, >> chunk, remix, share, explore, and recommend, what would you do?* Yale is >> in an unprecedented position right now, and it's vital we pitch in and >> contribute! >> >> I am happy to be a mouthpiece to Yale (and luckily have the perfect role to >> do so) for Free Culture and *how academic content *should* be approached, >> opened up, and disseminated*. So go ahead, feel free to send me your >> thoughts, ideas, complaints, suggestions, connections, etc. and I'll do what >> I can to get them heard and acted on. >> >> If you're interested in getting involved further, let me know -- I'm >> putting together *a small study group / discuss list for interested folk >> who want to continue sharing ideas and discussing issues related to Yale >> open courseware and digital strategy*. You have the ability to help make >> some serious changes here in how a leading university works with academic >> content and video for public consumption, as well as the broader strategy >> for dissemination of said content, so join in! >> >> Cheers, >> —Matt >> >> // *Matthew O. Brimer* >> // [email protected] >> // http://mobrimer.com >> // http://twitter.com/brimer >> // http://facebook.com/brimer >> // http://www.linkedin.com/in/mobrimer >> // 314.920.5052 >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss >> >> > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss
