Case Studies/Videolectures.Net
Free video lectures from the world’s leading and prominent scientists! — Videolectures.Net
Overview
The portal (online since 2002) is aimed at promoting science, exchanging ideas and fostering knowledge sharing by providing high quality didactic contents not only to a scientific community but also to a general public. All lectures, accompanying documents, information and links are systematically selected and classified through the editorial process taking into account also users' comments.
Videolectures.Net is being used as an educational platform for several EU funded research projects such as PASCAL NoE, ECOLEAD NoE, SEKT IP and different organizations, among others Xerox Parc, British Telecom, Max Planck, Fraunhofer Institute, Australian National University and Carnegie Mellon. The range of countries involved and languages used varies from Europe, USA, Taiwan, Australia, Ukraine, Russia and Brazil.
Currently the portal includes mainly the contents from Information and communication technologies in particular fields of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Semantic Web and Data and Text Mining but is expanding towards Fine Arts, Humanities, Social studies and Law as well.
Videolectures.Net archives also all lectures and presentations of the CC launch in Slovenia.
License Usage
Unless otherwise noted, all content is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0
Motivations
Videolectures.Net is financed within the FP5, FP6, and FP7 European Framework Programs as an educational platform that needs to be freely available to all potential non-commercial users.
Media
Moving Image (video), Interactive Resource
