[P2P-F] Fwd: [FC-discuss] Announcing LectureLeaks - Record and Share Your University Lectures

Thu Sep 8 02:21:22 CEST 2011

This seems relevant for the p2p community.

An interesting and aggressive approach to increasing education info  
access.

DWB

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Rich Jones <miserlou at gmail.com>
> Date: September 7, 2011 9:55:04 PDT
> To: Discussion of Free Culture in general and this organization in  
> particular <discuss at freeculture.org>
> Subject: [FC-discuss] Announcing LectureLeaks - Record and Share  
> Your University Lectures
> Reply-To: Discussion of Free Culture in general and this  
> organization in particular <discuss at freeculture.org>
>

> 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
> Andrew at FinalsClub.org and Rich at anomos.info.
>
> 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/freeharvardeducationcom/
>
> "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-the-smartphone-apps-that-let-you-spy-on-cops/240916/
>
> "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-smartphone-into-a-reverse-surveillance-camera/
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