A new survey of faculty and librarians from academic institutions nationwide shows that the educational use of video is accelerating rapidly, but there are significant technological, legal and other barriers emerging on campuses.
The conclusions are summarized in a recently published white paper, "Video Use and Higher Education: Options for the Future," which is based on the findings of the Video and Higher Education Project. The project was sponsored by Copyright Clearance Center (CCC), a not-for-profit collective licensing organization that enables higher education institutions to obtain copyright permissions to re-use content in print, online and in the classroom.
he Video and Higher Education Project consisted of a study on video use in higher education that was conducted by Intelligent Television, with the help of New York University (NYU) Libraries. In interviews with faculty and librarians from 20 institutions and across 18 academic departments and schools, the study found the following:
* The educational use of video on campus is accelerating rapidly in departments across all disciplines--from arts, humanities, and sciences to professional and vocational curricula - and this use is expected to grow significantly over the next five years; * Technology, legal, and other barriers continue to thwart faculty finding, accessing and obtaining the rights to use the segments of video they want for teaching and lectures; * University libraries contain significant video holdings selected for value to higher education but the majority of the content is in analog (VHS) format and/or is not networkable; and * Educators and administrators are forecasting a shift from offline analog storage to online delivery of educational video content.
