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ORIGINAL QUERY from Sarah Benton, Community Academy for
Lifelong Learning, PA
Do any programs ever videotape courses and then sell or loan them to the
membership? If yes, what fee do you charge and what types of courses do
you videotape?
From Ely Myerson, Florida Atlantic University, FL
I suggest that you be cautious before you go into the video taping business,
for two reasons: students who borrow or buy the tapes will likely not
come to the course and given the limited pricing that will work, it
is unlikely that you will make much $ from the deal.
From Michael Markowitz, IRP, New School University, NY
We only tapes performances of our theatre group which we make available
at cost.
From Tricia Inlow-Hatcher, Encore Center, NC State university,
NC
The Encore Center at NC State University videotapes on average one course
per year. The courses are available for rental and are also shown on
our local educational television channel (we offer this as a public
service to the community). We rent the tapes to retirement communities
and senior centers for $50 and to our members for $20. One piece of
advice to those considering this -- the best courses to videotape are
those with a lot of bells and whistles. Instructors who use a lot of
audiovisuals are going to translate better to video than those who mostly
talk and discuss.
From Sarah Fletcher, Furman University ILR, SC
Furman University Learning in Retirement (FULIR) is located in Greenville,
SC. Our program has been growing since its inception in 1993. We now
have about 560 students each term and offer over 70 courses per term.
FULIR has video taped a few courses in the past. One of our most popular
instructors has taught several different classes on Shakespeare. He
is excellent and very popular. We often have enrollments of 80 to 90
students in his class each time his courses are offered. A former Furman
student who is now a doctor offered to pay for the video taping of some
of the Shakespeare classes. We charged a break-even cost for the videos
when the course was over. ( I think they were $3-$4, or something like
that, for each class in the 10-week term). Actually we didn't sell many
sets. I have one set in the office that is available for loan, but it
is rarely requested. Even though this professor is a wonderful lecturer,
I think many people don't enjoy a "talking head" video. The
courses met for 10 weeks, with one and a half hour classes each week.
From Mary Pat Bohrman, ALL, University of Alabama, Huntsville,
AL
We have attempted to do this for a special program we presented, but
the cost of doing it was prohibitive. We previously had a member videotape
a class for future use, but the quality was so poor that it wasn’t
useable. Would love to hear ideas on how to work around the professional
charges for taping.
From Kali Lightfoot, OLLI, University of S. Maine, Portland,
Me
Our conclusion has been that while people think this will be a great
idea and they have occasionally talked us into taping a course, nobody
ever actually looks at the tapes!
From Wilbur Birky, LLI of Elkhart County, IN
We have done so for only one of the 14 courses we have offered so far
(we are a relatively new program). We did so at the request of some
of those registered. In that case one of the class members volunteered
to do it, then basically charged at his cost--and I don't remember what
that was. But I believe only 5 or so of the 50 registrants purchased
the CDs.
From Janette Brown, Emeriti College, University of Southern
California
No, we do not. If we tape them, we host them on our website for free.
From Peter Rivera, Center for Lifelong Learning, University
of TX, El Paso
CLL videotaped 8 (9.0 hours total each, 1.5 hrs./week) of it's 6-session
classes. University communications students produced, edited and packaged
the final product. Sessions were edited down to 1 hour each and ran
weekly on local cable and continuously as streaming video on our website
for 2 semesters. Our cost was +/- 50K, covered by a grant from Bernard
Osher Foundation. Subjects chosen to represent variety of our typical
program and lecturers from our most respected and popular faculty at
UTEP. DVD copies (created on our office computers) are made available
to members on loan. If members bring blank media, we burn copies they
may keep for free. We had a ball doing it. Hope this helps.
From Joan Gamble, ElderCollege, Fremont, OH
We have on occasion taped a program for members who had to miss a session.
This hasn't happened often and a amateur endeavors. In hind sight, I
wish we would have taped some of our local history class speakers. They
gave unique information and have since died, their knowledge gone with
them.
From Fiona Valentine, LLI, Western Iowa Tech Community College,
IA
Here is my somewhat negative feedback! My experience with videotaping
lectures/courses over the years is that they are seldom worth the effort
that goes into producing them. The reasons are:
1) the quality of the tape is rarely good, which makes them hard to
watch
2) a tape can rarely, if ever, capture the interaction that took place
in the classroom
3) people forget that the recording was ever made and they gather dust
on a shelf somewhere
4) the people who made the recording neglect to inform others of its
existence
For these and other reasons, I almost never record unless there is some
archival value in having a record of the event.
From Claudia Boles, LLI, Anderson College, SC
We had a very nice course during which local leaders spoke about Creativity.
The course leader arranged to have it video taped and several copies
made. I kept one to loan out and we place one in the county library.
It was a very nice event but unfortunately even thought we’ve
tried to publicize the tapes there has been little call for them.
From Mary Gardner, LLI, Purdue University, IN
We don't videotape any of our courses. I almost feel that we use too
many commercially produced videos in our classes (I feel the same way
about elementary school classrooms, too!) However, it is an interesting
concept.
From Karen Dumers, North Carolina State University
We rent them to members at $20 a set or $5 a tape. We videotape financial
lectures, travel
and destinations, art lectures and Science, etc.
From M. Jerry Meketon, Academy for Lifelong Learning, University
S. Florida, Sarasota/Manatee
We have video taped from time to time, but never for sale. We have taped
speakers or lecturers so that members who could not be there could review
what was said. We have also taped portions of courses for advertising
purposes. Currently, we are video taping a course about the Sarasota
school of architecture. This style was developed during the 1950’s
and the architects involved are retired or will be leaving the area.
It is unlikely that a future course of this scope will be put on. So
we are professionally recording the event as a public service. The tapes
can be loaned out to different community groups. The course ends March
5th. Will see how it goes.
From Noreen Frye, OLLI, University of Miami, FL
This is something we've been talking about but have not done yet. We're
beginning to look at ways to reach out beyond our walls.
From Pat Mielke, SPARK, University of Missouri, Kansas City,
MO
We do not have the equipment to tape our courses. We do use DVDs from
“The Great Courses”, which have terrific lectures, followed
by a facilitator lead discussion on the lecture. Usually we offer one
of these courses each of the four semesters throughout the year.
From Callie, Five Colleges LIR, MA
We do not videotape seminars, but we have a program called Encore Presentations
where a few excellent presentations are given as lectures some time
later. We normally have two lectures scheduled for a session. Last year
we had one Encore Presentation program, and this year we have two.
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