January 2, 2005
BitTorrent and Education
cogdogblog: A Bit of Edu Torrents?
Happy New Year everyone! This is the official first post of 2005. It was supposed to be made on a new platform or at least an upgraded MT blog but *sigh* I spent too much time playing with my new video editing suite Santa brought me....
Alan wonders out loud about how BitTorrent might be used for education. I too have been thinking about this. While it might not be as useful for posting things like lectures, what about the 1000's of hours of old educational films and movies? Even Newsreels and other films with historical significance would be excellent to have available.
Imagine being able to download any of these at superfast speeds into the classroom. Just think of all of the stuff that has been produced at taxpayer expense that should be freely available from many different sources.
Posted by Rovy at January 2, 2005 10:05 PM