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Teachers College Profs Launch Online TV Station
By Zahra Khimji
PUBLISHED JANUARY 24, 2008
“Colleges Battle for Star Professors” is no longer the education nerd’s pipe dream of an American Idol replacement. It is the first show on Teachers College’s After Ed, a new video Web channel about education.
Brian Hughes, director of the design center that creates the content for this Web channel, kicked off the launch party Wednesday night with a discussion of the channel’s purposes.
“As the Internet and technology have become more rapidly complex, we need more tools to make things easier,” he said
He went on to describe the adaptability of the web channel and how any school, teacher, or student can use the channel as an aid to learning, noting specifically that anyone can put this syndicated player on another Web site. “After Ed is not what Web videos have been in the past,” producer Sky McCloudsaid. “It aims to execute and inform as well as engage students and teachers. It also encourages people to submit their own material.”
“About 95 percent of the videos are made by producers, but submitted videos are definitely reviewed and a committee decides on what gets published and what doesn’t,” Hughes explained.
The station’s name, according to Hughes, addresses both “an [educational] era that follows the industrial one” and the search for the true meaning of education.
TC has previously been rich in media ventures, including collaboration with Spike Lee on the curriculum for the documentary When the Leevees Broke.
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