Building a New Form of Production Studio

About the role

Intelligent Television (with Channel Thirteen/WNET as its fiscal sponsor) received seed support from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation to explore establishing a new kind of video production studio to catalyze and coordinate video production for the open education resource movement.

Responsibilities

• Catalyze new open production initiatives at educational institutions and through educational consortia
• Host meetings for educators, technologists, video producers, and other stakeholders to help articulate a sustainability plan for the studio's productions and research and development projects
• Organize new multi-institutional collaborations into a distributed educational video production network
• Establish a new educational video commons to define best practices in video preservation and access

Research and Development

• Evaluate the use of educational video in teaching and learning
• Build new tools—editing, annotation, search, summarization—for more cost-efficient video production and distribution worldwide

Production

Cost-effectively produce educational video for university needs and make it broadly available.