Intro to Learning from Youtube
CLAREMONT - The chaos of YouTube seems an unlikely place to conduct a college course. Countless billions of hours of U.S. productivity have been wasted on the popular video-sharing Web site, and it's unlikely that much of that time was spent on proper education.
That's no small matter at Pitzer College.
The liberal-arts school has launched a new class for fall semester devoted to the study of YouTube, and much of the class will be conducted through the site as well. Class sessions are filmed and posted on YouTube, and the class' group site is filled with student-created videos responding to comments and other videos on YouTube.
The class is designed, in part, to resemble the disorder of YouTube, with media-studies professor Alexandra Juhasz turning over control of the class' content to her students. Read More
Learning From YouTube Class Sept. 11 - Part 1
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