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TV: WGBH Educational Initiative

By Jennifer Maddrell - Posted on 01 March 2008

I attended the State University of New York (SUNY) distance learning summit this week and Christian Wise, a Senior Designer at WGBH in Boston, gave an overview of teachersdomain.org, WGBH's online digital library of multimedia resources for educators. The distribution format they are using signals how and where they will deliver their educational content in the future. Based on my take, original TV broadcast materials will be re-purposed and bundled with instructional materials and offered as educational resources to individuals and institutions. Funded through the WGBH Educational Foundation, the teachersdomain.org website will be the place where the broadcast materials will be housed and distributed, but through educational partnerships, such as SUNY or PBS Teacherline - see http://www.pbs.org/teacherline/ - "for-credit" courses will be available to learners.

If you are interested, his presentation was streamed and recorded via ustream.tv - From the presentation overview:

"Teachers’ Domain offers more than 1,000 high quality online multimedia resources to enhance students’ learning experiences in Engineering, Physical, Life, Earth and Space Sciences. The collections feature high-quality video, audio, interactives, images, and documents from public television sources such as Nova, American Experience, Frontline, Zoom, and many other programs and partners. Explanatory background articles are provided for each resource, as well as correlations to national and state education standards. SUNY has participated in the initiative to adapt Teachers’ Domain to a higher education audience. SUNY online instructional designers were invited to review and provide feedback on the Teachers’ Domain site, and I will be showing the initial results of our collaboration in the form of schematic diagrams, wireframe sketches, and design mockups. Additional feedback will be solicited to make sure that we’re on the right track."

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