This idea has me pretty excited: what about students filming or audio recording lectures and uploading them as supplementary material for textbooks? The audio/video material will itself not be immediately wiki-able but could be available on the site for reference and future editing. Anyone out there know of intellectual property questions? Is there any problem taping a lecture and uploading it? Does it depend on whether the teacher/prof gives permission, or the school, or what?
My mind is positively busting with the possibilities of science lectures available on wikibooks. Some people learn best by reading, others by listening, others by seeing ... If we can get audio or video of lectures online that will be like having a downloadable classroom, where you can get all of the classroom experience except the immediate opportunity to ask questions.
Karl
On 12/3/05, Karl Wick karlwick@gmail.com wrote:
This idea has me pretty excited: what about students filming or audio recording lectures and uploading them as supplementary material for textbooks? The audio/video material will itself not be immediately wiki-able but could be available on the site for reference and future editing. Anyone out there know of intellectual property questions? Is there any problem taping a lecture and uploading it? Does it depend on whether the teacher/prof gives permission, or the school, or what?
I'd love to see a free resource like this within Wikimedia. It may fit in better with Wikisource than Wikibooks, since, like source texts, the main aim wouldn't necessarily be to edit the videos (though there would some advantage in being able to merge parts of different lessons together). There again, if the upload limit at Commons doesn't get in the way, storing them there could also work. I'm not sure what the best place for the transcriptions would be if people were keen to make those (it would help in making the videos searchable).
In terms of copyright, you'd need either permission of the lecturer or of the school, depending on their employment contract and whether their work is regarded a "work for hire" where the school claims the copyright. If you're recording student's questions during the lesson, you'd also need their permission.
Angela.
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