YouTube Changes Higher Education: Will It Also Change Corporate Learning? YouTube has become an important teaching tool.
In fact University of California at Berkeley follows MIT in posting entire course lectures on the Web’s No.1 video-sharing site. It all started in 2001, when a number of high profile web-based educational projects were “exploring new models of learning.” These higher education experiments included NYU Online, Fathom, Virtual Temple and MIT Open Courseware. Open Courseware - Educational Transformation through Technology at MIT - OCW. MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) is delivering on MIT's promise to share knowledge openly: through it all MIT course materials will be accessible on the Web, free of charge, to any user in the world.
Millions of educators, students and self-learners around the globe are avidly using the 1250 courses now available (the initiative will include materials from approximately 1,800 courses by the year 2007). Importantly, more than 60 other institutions around the world have adopted the "opencourseware" concept, and are now freely disseminating their knowledge and materials as part of the burgeoning OpenCourseWare Movement. Commitment In 1999 an MIT faculty committee was charged with determining how MIT should position itself in the distance/e-learning environment.
The Center for Open Sustainable Learning — COSL.