User:Youtuniverity

You are reading a page on Wikiversity written about the user called Youtuniver$\int_{-N}^{N}$ity who admits to be a bit of dreamer, but he believes his dream is coming true (verità (it.) from veritas (Latin) for truth. )

His dream is that one day all lectures, yes, all lectures delivered by any lecturer who is at least partially payed by tax-payer's money, are recorded on video and freely given to all the people.

Soon, sooner then most people anticipate, his dream may come true because todays computers already have, better and better, built-in cameras, as smart phones do, and now lecturers can be video-captured and their presentations screen-captured using the freely available screen-capturing software and the free services for streaming and video upload (such as ustream, and youtube) for everyone to watch. Put in short he believes he, and you, too, have equal rights to belong to univers(al)ity of ver(s)ità.

He is inspired by James Neill's (see his Openism and freedom in academia ), and Leigh Blackall (see his quote from The Rise of the 'Edupunk'. 5 November 2010:)
 * "College leaders don't yet know how to credential the knowledge students are gaining on their own, but they may soon have to, said Mark David Milliron, deputy director for postsecondary improvement at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. We are not far from the day when a student, finding unsatisfactory reviews of a faculty member on ratemyprofessors.com, will choose to take a class through open courseware online and then ask his home institution to assess him, Milliron said. Colleges need to prepare for that reality, he said."

Youtuniver$\int_{-N}^{N}$ity 11:48, 9 December 2011 (UTC)