Re: Use of Pre-Recorded Videos in Interactive Television Courses

Good Morning:

Being that I opened this can of worms with my original question, let me throw another wretch into this discussion.

Jessica Litman <litman[_at_]mindspring.com> wrote:
>
> Granted, but shouldn't it be kept in mind that the target audience of a
> distance education course is a limited number of students who, having
> enrolled and paid tuition, are the *only* stakeholders who stand to
> benefit from the instructional content of the video? Whether it's a
> class of 35 students who are seeing the video in a traditional
> face-to-face classroom, or a class of 35 students who are located
> remotely from the instructional source, it's still a class of only 35
> students-- that's the market. Seems to me a market is a market no
> matter where it's situated.

While the "market" is the 35 students, the private distance learning network on which the ITV class, in our case, is being transmitted has at least 21 other high schools, colleges or universities that potentially have access to the transmitting site - the unethical issue of "lurking" (watching) to a course that you are not enrolled in aside, there is a potential that the number of people who see the video is bigger.

All of the educational institutions subscribe to Bell Atlantic's private network and a county-wide coordinator schedules the point to multipoint classes to keep control of bandwidth capacity. Bell Atlantic schedules point-to-multipoint courses that reach out of county.

(Forgive me if this is snip is slightly out of context of the original posting below - I don't this it is...)

Ron Loneker, Jr.
College of Saint Elizabeth
<loneker[_at_]liza.st-elizabeth.edu> Received on Thu Nov 06 1997 - 15:42:53 GMT