Apparently some of the early television shows were essentially “filmed radio" (I know I have heard this quote a number of times, but of course right now I don’t seem to be able to find a link on google). In other words instead of developing a format native to the new medium, things got started with an essentially literal adaptation. The equivalent in online education is putting entire long lectures up on the web. Don’t get me wrong, I love some of the stuff that’s on Academic Earth, but the v...

Apparently some of the early television shows were essentially “filmed radio" (I know I have heard this quote a number of times, but of course right now I don’t seem to be able to find a link on google). In other words instead of developing a format native to the new medium, things got started with an essentially literal adaptation. The equivalent in online education is putting entire long lectures up on the web. Don’t get me wrong, I love some of the stuff that’s on Academic Earth, but the v...