A special section in YouTube for Videos from colleges and other education institutions

Google has launced YouTubeEDU to collect videos from educational institutes, colleges, universities, et al.

The blurb on the YouTube blog says

“Using YouTube as a vehicle to democratize learning is one of the coolest, unintended outcomes of its existence. YouTube EDU is a volunteer project sparked by a group of employees who wanted to find a better way to collect and highlight all the great educational content being uploaded to YouTube by colleges and universities. We'll feature some of these videos on the home page on Friday and elaborate further in a separate post on that day.”

First thoughts – University on demand J

After institutions like MIT opening up their entire curriculum this is an interesting way to mine such info.

Click here to try out YouTube EDU

My STC Presentation on 'Using Video Games and Virtual Worlds for Learning'

During the first Society for Technical Communication (STC) Regional conference in Pune (14-15 Jul 2007), I was given the opportunity to conduct a session related to Instructional Design (ID). I thought it would be a good platform to make an interesting presentation on how and why people are more captivated by games (compared to traditional learning processes). During the presentation I also showed examples of a number of 'serious games' are being made to address learning among both the adults and children.

I've uploaded the PPT to Rapidshare along with the videos that I showed during the talk.

You could download the videos from:

	http://rapidshare.com/files/42947771/STC_Session_Video_Games_Jul2007_v1.7.ppt.html

And the presentation from:

http://rapidshare.com/files/42953177/Videos_4_STCPrez_15Jul07.zip.html