Yesterdays half day seminar attract more students than teachers. And more members of the support floor than then tech savy observers. The opening speech by founder of Studytube, Homam Karimi, enticed its audience to some degree. His business model is a subscription based, personalized cheat sheet in audio/video form. His main argument besides the rhetorical tidal wave every new media venture rides upon is simple: Students in this batterie score higher when tested. The batterie or platform features pre-packaged education clips tailored to individuals performance. Selfassesment blocks provide the necessary input for a system that so personalized education to the individual. For the content Karimi collects the questions asked by nine universities to students in their regular exams. A compilation with all questions asked by teachers in their law exams provide the script for audiovisual content explaining the answers. The clips are tagged, categorized and put through a more or less complex automated flow chart (algorythm) to serve as the "food for thought" to students, whenever and wherever they want it. Matching ready made answers to a pool of possible exam questions creates the magic behind studylink. The business case is simple: The university produces some pilot projects and in doing so generates content for the platform that is in turn sold for a good price back to the university and students alike.
The next presentation by Gwen Noteborn covered the OASE project. A reseach program investigating online lectures, their implementations and effects in the netherlands. And a working example of what is happening is also online
here. Be sure you have Microsofts Silverlight installed! An interactive session rounds up the day that was more than just a good excuse to leave the cave.
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