WediaBuzz

I didn’t go to the Web 2.0 conference, but found this article today which does relate to the Web 2.0 phenomenon and thought I’d share it. One of the professors at Pitzer College in Claremont, CA taught a course called “Learning From YouTube” last fall. What better way to understand YouTube than to use it as the teaching medium and method? All class assignments and research had to take place on YouTube and all classes were taped and posted there as well. According to the professor, Alexandra Juhasz,

Learning From YouTube was my first truly “student led” course: we would determine the important themes and relevant methods together. I had decided that I wanted the course to primarily consider how web 2.0 (in this case, specifically YouTube) is radically altering the conditions of learning (what, where, when, how we have access to information).

Alexandra’s post on Open Culture goes into the lessons she learned during the course. Here’s a link to the Learning From YouTube group on YouTube.