A recent survey of graduating high school students showed that less than 20% used the library for research, where over 50% used Wikipedia and a different 50% used YouTube.
Students regularly watch video to learn new material, participate in online social groups to share information, upload their work to community sites like Flickr and MySpace for comment, and answer other people’s questions within their areas of expertise on Adrvark.
it‘s learning makes those vehicles for education available to professors with less effort than it used to take to upload a syllabus.
- Create multimedia content in two clicks with integrated audio and video tools.
- Insert a YouTube video or an RSS feed into a lesson with integrated Web 2.0 tools.
- Assign licensed material from publishers with the Diglib digital content management system integration.
- Multimedia discussion groups allow students to communicate with their professors and with their peers using text, images, audio and video – with no extra effort.