Creating User Community for OCW Through Sharing Lecture Movies

I was able to attend this session from Professor Fukuhara. The gist of the entire session was to show how Keio University in Japan does their open education.  Most of the materials and methods have been done before and were not that unique, but there was something that was very interesting. They've created educational videos with two great features: 1) they are exported to fit an iPhone screen, allowing students to use the videos wherever they have their phone, and 2) create an way to have interactive video. The videos allow you write notes and save scenes for review. Plus you can interactively share your notes and saved points with others. I'm not even going to cover the "Good Job Points."

 

I was very impressed with the interactive video, I have used training videos before, but they lack that social interaction that happens in class. Plus you have your notes saved with the exact spot in the videos that you thought of them. This pushes video learning to another degree which is more Web 2.0 and interactive. I can see in the near future full on chat in which you interact with the teacher or other students in which you can have real time answered questions. That would be much better than the stiff environments currently being employed by most video training.

 

I'm torn on whether I like the iPhone screen size. In Japan, cell phones with internet access is common (at least that's what my schema is), but it is different in the U.S. I, for example, am a starving student who can barely afford a phone, much less a plan with internet features.  So, while I see some good points in the smaller size (access, file/download size, etc.) I'm rather have an option for full screen or .mobi screens.