Hi everyone,
Our university library is interested in providing more streaming video to
faculty to use in the classroom. This would be streaming video clips,
feature films, documentaries, trade films, language films, etc. on an "on
demand" basis. We have a small pilot (190 or so) of licensed and hosted
films from a third party vendor (FMG) that we can stream and authenticate
with our proxy server for three years. In addition to looking for more
hosted options, we are thinking of expanding our present offerings and
including a more "in house" option and have looked at a school using Video
Furnace - http://www.videofurnace.com/ which they are encoding video and
putting it on their courseware (moodle) for each prof's course. The
school that was visited has a residential campus and the courseware and
video is only accessible on the network's wired campus. They do not do
any remote access.
I'm wondering if any of you have gotten into the streaming video game for
classroom use/courseware use. What are you using? Is it compatible with
TWEN/LexisNexis Web Courses? What problems have you run up against? What
content are you streaming? Are you using just professor owned content or
are you licensing other content? Are you streaming other content such as
lectures/events/faculty created content?
I'd be happy to summarize for the group and I'm working on a summary of
the previous question right now. :)
Thanks!
Sue
Sue Drisko Zago
Associate Director
Northeastern University School of Law Library
400 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02115
617-373-3331
s.zago@neu.edu
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