Comments on: Academic lectures and discussions available online

By: Eszter

Eszter — Sat, 30 Jul 2005 15:17:55 +0000

Ray, Berkeley is signed up as a Contributor to UC so wouldn’t it mean that those broadcasts would now be available there as well? I thought the point here was to consolidate so viewers/listeners could just go to one site to find all the goodies.

By: Ray Davis

Ray Davis — Fri, 29 Jul 2005 14:19:06 +0000

Gotta give a shout out to Berkeley’s own:

http://webcast.berkeley.edu/

And UCTV’s “Conversations with History”:

http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/conversations/chron.html

By: François

François — Fri, 29 Jul 2005 01:20:49 +0000

As a student from the other side of the Atlantic Pond, I’d like to thank the Princeton people for that excellent opportunity for me and others to watch some US lectures. Both thumbs up.

By: Donna Liu

Donna Liu — Thu, 28 Jul 2005 19:29:11 +0000

To answer your question, David: a speaker can opt not to be recorded at all, in which case they simply decline to sign a broadcast release agreement. In that case they will be heard only by those physically present in the room. The host institutions take responsibility for clearing recording rights with the speaker before contributing their tapes.

By: David Velleman

David Velleman — Thu, 28 Jul 2005 17:21:25 +0000

Question: Will presenters at the Wilson School have an opportunity to opt out of this arrangement? Or will consent to be broadcast on the Web be a condition for speaking at the Wilson School’s events?

By: Dirk

Dirk — Thu, 28 Jul 2005 15:26:51 +0000

Awesome.

I’ll believe the “many-sided discussions” thing when I see it, but even this is great. I’ve had Princeton’s Web Media archived lectures page, http://www.princeton.edu/WebMedia/lectures/ bookmarked for months. Good to have a place with videos from even more schools.

By: Donna Liu

Donna Liu — Thu, 28 Jul 2005 15:12:54 +0000

The University Channel is hoping to enable virtual and live discussions in the future, but for the moment we are starting with the basics: giving wider distribution to lectures and events that have already been recorded by participating universities. Once we have the critical mass of participants, there’s nothing to stop us from organizing our own discussions.

Having said that, we do hope that faculty will take advantage of the material on the University Channel site to enrich the classroom discussion. Think of it as having a guest lecturer, or even assigned viewing.

We welcome all feedback on the project, which after all is still in the formative stage. Please feel free to contact me directly at: dmliu@princeton.edu