You do not want to overlook the great webcast SCUP has assembled for Campus Sustainability Day 8.0, October 20, 2010! It features The New York Times' Andrew C. Revkin as moderator (he's worked with SCUP before) and as the streaming video presenter, well-known author and speaker on motivating for change, David Gershon.

Below are YouTube videos of a Gerson presentation at the Garrison Institute earlier this year. The symposium theme was "Climate, Buildings, and Behavior." Don't miss him at SCUP on Wednesday, October 20 - wherever you happen to be!

David Gershon - Part I

David Gershon - Part II

David Gershon - Part III

David Gershon - Part IV

David Gershon - Part V

SCUP's first virtual event shared across the continent was a SCUP/PBS satellite telecast “Creating Tomorrow’s Learner-Centered Environments – Today!” How does the vision and content of this 12-year-old telecast fare after 12 years of high-speed change in higher education?

Find out on SCUP's YouTube channel, Plan4HigherEd, as we have sliced that telecast up into eleven 10-minute chunks for your viewing pleasure. Or, just watch all eleven of them right here:

Don't miss out on joining nearly 1,500 of your colleagues and peers at higher education's premier planning event of 2010, SCUP–45. The Society for College and University Planning's 45th annual, international conference and idea marketplace is July 10–14 in Minneapolis!

 

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Here's your SCUP Link to "A Self-Appointed Teacher Runs a One-Man 'Academy'"

Salman Khan is a 33-year-old who makes lecture videos in his hole studio/closet. His lecture on "Cancer" is embedded in this post, below.

Mr. Khan calls his collection of videos "Khan Academy," and he lists himself as founder and faculty. That means he teaches every subject, and he has produced 1,400 lectures since he started in 2006. Now he records one to five lectures per day.

The lo-fi videos seem to work for students, many of whom have written glowing testimonials or even donated a few bucks via a PayPal link. The free videos have drawn hundreds of thousands of views, making them more popular than the lectures by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, famous for making course materials free, or any other traditional institution online, according to the leaders of YouTube's education section.

This article discusses a possible new trend in higher education: Posting video's of lectures on YouTube.

"BERKELEY, United States (AFP) — A California university renowned for US history changing free speech and anti-war movements is embracing the Internet revolution by putting free videos of courses on YouTube.

More than 300 hours of University of California, Berkeley, classes and events are available online at the web address www.youtube.com/ucberkeley, college officials announced on Wednesday.

University offerings at the dedicated YouTube channel include peace and conflict studies, bioengineering courses, and a science class titled "Physics for Future Presidents."

"UC Berkeley on YouTube will provide a public window into university life: academics, events and athletics," said vice provost for undergraduate education Christina Maslach.

The University plans to continually add videos to the channel, which officially launched Wednesday with about nine full courses consisting of approximately 40 lectures each."