It’s been exactly one month since the band Walk Off the Earth uploaded their cover of Gotye’s “Somebody That I Used to Know” to YouTube. More than 48 million views later, they are on fire and courting multiple record labels. Think of it this way, if 1 in 20 viewers bought…
YouTube + Creative Commons = Awesome!
Google’s YouTube started supporting for the CC-BY Creative Commons open license yesterday. Awesome news, and just in time for our Open Course Library phase 1 videos, which we will be captioning and moving to YouTube very soon. Here’s the announcement from the Creative Commons blog: YouTube has added the Creative…
What Video Auto-Captioning Means for OER
Ever since YouTube’s official auto-captioning feature launch in early March 2010 (with a private beta back in November 2009), I can’t stop thinking about the enormous significance for OER and for the web in general. It’s huge. As you probably know, David Wiley was recently able to convince Sal Khan…