[FC-discuss] Open Yale Courses - Ideas/Changes/Recommendations?

[Matthew O. Brimer]

Hi all,

I'm doing some strategy consulting for Yale these days, and one of the  
projects I'm working on is a compilation of strategic recommendations  
for Yale's open courseware initiative, called Open Yale Courses: http://oyc.yale.edu 
. OYC has some great content (in the form of HD video lectures from  
selected courses), available in multiple formats. But it also has some  
glaring needs and inadequacies.

I'd love to hear your thoughts on how we can improve things. Feel free  
to be frank -- the OYC site is far from perfect and could use some  
serious improvements. What needs to be changed? What would YOU like to  
see? If Yale's current open courseware site design, syndication  
strategy and content offerings were yours to disseminate, syndicate,  
chunk, remix, share, explore, and recommend, what would you do? Yale  
is in an unprecedented position right now, and it's vital we pitch in  
and contribute!

I am happy to be a mouthpiece to Yale (and luckily have the perfect  
role to do so) for Free Culture and how academic content *should* be  
approached, opened up, and disseminated. So go ahead, feel free to  
send me your thoughts, ideas, complaints, suggestions, connections,  
etc. and I'll do what I can to get them heard and acted on.

If you're interested in getting involved further, let me know -- I'm  
putting together a small study group / discuss list for interested  
folk who want to continue sharing ideas and discussing issues related  
to Yale open courseware and digital strategy. You have the ability to  
help make some serious changes here in how a leading university works  
with academic content and video for public consumption, as well as the  
broader strategy for dissemination of said content, so join in!

Cheers,
	—Matt

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