Video Use and Higher Education: Options for the Future
“Wired Magazine founder Kevin Kelly and Creative Commons founder and Stanford law professor Lawrence Lessig describe our cultural shift today as one from book literacy to screen fluency where video is the new vernacular—a “world beyond words,” where television, movies, and all audiovisual work will, like books, find themselves with tables of contents, indexes and abstracts, rendering them searchable to the minute if not the second and have rights provenance clearly and transparently defined for both legacy and new elements. We have described the trends noticeable today as ones that are as remarkable as the shift from the scroll to the codex over 2,000 years ago.
“This music stops at the university gate. The state of play today in higher education is such that the “screen literacy,” “visuality,” and fluency that students bring to the classroom and to their work from their worlds outside the university are barely being serviced inside of it. The ways in which students use, create and distribute entertainment media differ drastically from the ways in which they use digital media inside the classroom. The demand—not only on the part of students, but from teachers as well—for video resources exceeds what is available in every institution we visited.”
This report is based on findings of a study designed and funded by Copyright Clearance Center and conducted by Intelligent Television with the cooperation of New York University. June 2009
https://www.library.nyu.edu/about/Video_Use_in_Higher_Education.pdf