[NAEP] For older students

[Dawn Wiseman]

University of California, Berkeley: entire course lectures and 
special events available, free of charge, on YouTube

http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2007/10/03_YouTube.shtml

Campus launches YouTube channel

By Yasmin Anwar, Media Relations | 03 October 2007

BERKELEY - Further expanding public access to its intellectual riches
through the most popular Web destinations, the University of California,
Berkeley, announced today (Wednesday, Oct. 3) that it is making entire
course lectures and special events available, free of charge, on
YouTube.

UC Berkeley page on YouTubeUC Berkeley is the first university to make
videos of full courses available through YouTube. Visitors to the site
at youtube.com/ucberkeley can view more than 300 hours of videotaped
courses and events. Topics range from bioengineering, to peace and
conflict studies, to "Physics for Future Presidents," the title of a
popular campus course. Building on its initial offerings, UC Berkeley
will continue to expand the catalog of videos available on YouTube.

"UC Berkeley on YouTube will provide a public window into university
life - academics, events and athletics - which will build on our rich
tradition of open educational content for the larger community," said
Christina Maslach, UC Berkeley's vice provost for undergraduate
education.

YouTube is the leading online video community that allows people to
discover, watch and share originally created videos. The video-sharing
Web site allows people to easily upload and share video clips on
youtube.com and across the Internet through Web sites, blogs and e-mail.

UC Berkeley has been a leader in the open-source video movement in
higher education since fall 2001, when the campus's Educational
Technology Services (ETS) launched webcast.berkeley.edu, a local site
that delivers course and event content as podcasts and streaming video.

In April 2006, UC Berkeley launched its audio podcast program, making
audio content available as free downloads through webcast.berkeley. On
pace to deliver 86 full courses and more than 100 events, amounting to
more than 3,500 hours of content in 2007, the program has expanded
dramatically since delivering 15 courses in its inaugural year.

"YouTube's ongoing innovations create a great environment in which
students and lifelong learners alike can discover, watch and share
educational videos," said Ben Hubbard, ETS co-manager of
webcast.berkeley. "We are excited to make UC Berkeley videos available
to the world on YouTube and will continue to expand our offerings."