Open University to broadcast on YouTube

[Noreen]

The days of kipper tie-wearing academics broadcasting their lectures in the middle of the night may be long gone but the Open University hoped to recapture their essence with the launch of a new channel on YouTube today.

YouTube is the leading online video community that allows people to discover, watch and share originally created videos. "OUView" has over 300 videos that anyone can watch over the internet.

Video taken from OU courses is available on the OULearn channel and features household names such as the naturalist broadcaster Sir David Attenborough and the inventor James Dyson.

The videos cover subjects from arts and history to science and nature, in bite-sized chunks of two to three minutes each..................

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2008/aug/01/openuniversity.highereducation

[Inactive]

I really miss the " oh so dated " look of the OU programmes.

[Rik]

Me too, In. It would be like watching an episode of The Goodies again.

[Simon]

The Goodies never appealed to me at all.  I just couldn't see anything funny in them.

[Rik]

Some of their stuff was funny at the time, but it would look very 'period' now, I'm sure.