This seems relevant for the p2p community. An interesting and aggressive approach to increasing education info access. DWB Begin forwarded message:
From: Rich Jones <[email protected]> Date: September 7, 2011 9:55:04 PDT To: Discussion of Free Culture in general and this organization in particular <[email protected]> Subject: [FC-discuss] Announcing LectureLeaks - Record and Share Your University Lectures Reply-To: Discussion of Free Culture in general and this organization in particular <[email protected]>
Hello, all!
I'm writing to you today to announce LectureLeaks, our new platform for recording and sharing your university lectures. We have released two applications, one for Android and one for iPhone, which allow you to record your lectures and send them to our website, LectureLeaks.com, where anybody can listen to them for free. You can also listen to other lectures directly through the app. Oh, and of course, all of the applications and the server software are free and open source, and the content is Creative-Commons-BY.
You can checkout the website here: http://www.lectureleaks.com
and get the apps here:
https://market.android.com/details?id=org.ale.lectureleaks (Android) http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/lectureleaks/id460258898?mt=8 (iPhone)
We only put the apps up on Sunday night and we're already receiving a lot of content - at this rate, we could quite possibly become the largest repository of OpenCourseWare audio within the year.
So we need volunteers! We need people to promote the applications on campus and people to help us process all of the audio we're receiving.
LectureLeaks is a really easy and convenient way for people at your school to get involved with the OpenCourseWare movement, so maybe you could use it as a tool for chapter recruitment!
Questions, comments, concerns? Fire away!
Thanks very much! Rich
PS
Below is the press release which we'll be sending out, if you know anybody who might be interested, campus newspapers, etc, feel free to pass it along!
Cambridge, MA September, 2011 – LectureLeaks.org is pleased to announce the premier of its iPhone and Android applications designed to help students record and upload their college lectures. A collaborative venture between OpenWatch.net and FinalsClub.org, LectureLeaks is a 501(c)(3) non-profit open-education project.
Inspired by the popularity of other Open Courseware programs, notably those at MIT, Yale, and Berkley, LectureLeaks takes a bottom-up rather than top-down approach to the movement by allowing students to engage directly in the creation of free educational content. Our tools specifically empower forward-thinking scholars to capture and share academic knowledge with the world.
The more lectures our users capture, save, and post, the more knowledge you (and other curious minds) will be able to stream directly to your ear buds. Our mission is to make high quality education available to everyone, for free.
Although our applications are an essential first step, they are simply tools. The ultimate success of this project relies as much on society as technology. In short, we must first shift our perception of education from private and privileged to free and open.
Although affirmative for open education, LectureLeaks also protects the rights of faculty and students alike. No matter how much technology we implement, we will never replace the former or jeopardize the latter. Therefore, we maintain the anonymity of every contributing user, respond to all legitimate takedown requests, and share all recordings under a Creative-Commons Attribution license.
Thank you for helping encourage awareness and adoption of this project. For additional information, please contact [email protected] and [email protected].
Previous Press for FinalsClub.org & OpenWatch.net
“New Social Software Tries to be the Facebook of Higher Education ,” Chronicle of Higher Education, October 2010.
http://chronicle.com/article/New-Social-Software-Tries-to/125542/
“FreeHarvardEducation.com,” The Boston Globe, December 13, 2009.
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2009/12/13/freeharvardeduca...
"Policing the Police: The Apps That Let You Spy on The Cops," The Atlantic, June 23, 2011.
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/06/policing-the-police-th...
"OpenWatch Turns Your Smartphone Into A Reverse Surveillance Camera," Forbes, June 22, 2011
http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2011/06/22/openwatch-turns-your-sm... _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss