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Stanford University
Second mark.
Stanford's been offering
online or distance education
for many decades.
But in 2011, we
had a few faculty
who decided to create fully
online courses that, again,
anyone in the world could take.
And at least in a
couple of those courses,
a few hundred thousand
students start to sign up.
And that generated a lot of
interest not only at Stanford,
but nationally and
internationally.
We really early on
saw the need to create
a team that could support
faculty in their endeavors
without having
them be technically
knowledgeable in creating
video or digital media content.
Over the years we've built
a team of creative producers
who have industry
experience from Hollywood,
as well as editors and studio
management professionals who
can operate these spaces.
A few weeks after--
These start with a faculty idea.
They want to be able to
share their scholarship
or their teaching, or
even some materials,
like we have in special
collections here
at the library.
And so it starts with their
goals and their ideas.
Often, we begin with
instructional design.
So they will meet with
some of our staff in VPTL
just to start to dream up-- what
could this course look like?
We have a variety of
different production spaces
that we can offer faculty,
everything from screencasts
and audio record booths to
full-fledged green screen
studios.
More and more, as we create MOOC
content, we have an eye on--
how could this also be used
in an on-campus course,
integrated as a flipped or
blended model, where maybe
they'll watch some of
that content online
and then be able to go
deeper into conversation
in the classroom
do active learning?
If you think about the
mission of Stanford
in the institution, the
process of contributing back
to public good, being
intellectually generous,
is something that
comes up a lot when
we talk to faculty about this,
that they have a real desire
to not just keep the
intellectual riches of Stanford
within the borders
of this campus,
but to be able to impact
the lives of students
all over the world.
A student [INAUDIBLE] the
coordinating committee
had come there in 1962.
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