This link is straight from the pages of Ofcom. It highlights an assessment of the market impact of the BBC’s proposals for an on demand service. Many of the BBC’s commercial rivals are weary of the corporation’s plans and are lobbying for Ofcom to take on the role of regulating BBC activity. The link can be found by clicking here.
The BBC trust has given initial approval to the BBC to proceed with it’s plans for an ‘on demand’ service that allows viewers to watch programmes online or download and keep them on their computer for up to thirty days after they were first broadcast. This story can be found on the BBC website by clicking here.
Click.tv is offering a nifty Flash-based collaborative video annotation and tagging service, somewhat similar to our Northwestern University partners’ Project Pad web application. A seemingly unique feature of Click.tv among the widely-available web annotators is its capacity for multiple annotation tracks.
One early application has been to combine Engadget, Gizmodo, Wired’s Cult of Mac and others’ coverage of last week’s keynote address at the Macworld conference in San Francisco. So if you want to get your geek on and witness the first searchable, collaborative streaming index of the Reality Distortion Field in action, head on over to the Jobsnote on Macrumors/Click.tv.
I’ve been a bit slow picking up this post from October, but it is still interesting and relevant ….from the blog of Stephen Abram, Vice President of Innovation at SirsiDynix.
It appears that higher ed is undergoing a renaissance of innovation and experimentation.
1. Harvard is trying out Second Life. See more here.
2. “Yale University said on Wednesday it will offer digital videos of some courses on the Internet for free, along with transcripts in several languages, in an effort to make the elite private school more accessible.” via Reuters.
3. Duke University continues it’s experiment with iPods in education - now into its third year.
4. Google and the University of California, Berkeley, are going to make available online considerable amounts of videotaped course
content, including lectures, speeches, special events, and, even entire courses. Mercury News, 28 September 2006
5. And, of course, MIT plans to offer many if not most of its courses on the web free. Find it here.
