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Ask HN: Do any colleges live stream their lectures?

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I am just curious to see if any colleges live stream their classes? Or any students who tweet what they learnt today.

Would be a fun experiment. I do understand that it cuts into their revenue streams, but still want to explore.

UC Berkeley used to for a lot of computer science classes. But a lawsuit necessitated that they close caption all of their publicly available streams. Rather than pay money to get professional closed captions, they made streams private.

Private or... “private” ?

That's a real shame, a (presumably) well intentioned attempt to increase access to educational resources winds up restricting access instead. I wonder what the motivations and intended outcome of the lawsuit was.

It was a group of deaf people trying to get UCB to spend the money to better serve them.

For free...so instead dicked everyone else who otherwise would have received for free.

Because that constitutes discrimination against the deaf...

Does that apply to free services?

I assume the motivation was to compel UC Berkeley to comply with the Americans With Disabilities Act.

I do. At least sometimes. I use Zoom to do so. I sometimes record them as well. We have had a lot of weather cancellations this winter, so I have been doing this quite a bit. But, I am not required to, nor do I do it 100% of the time. FWIW, I teach Software Development at a community college.

Yes. Harvard’s CS50 course livestreams lectures, both in 2D and sometimes in 360 degree format (!)

The university I attended (University of Athens, Greece, department of Informatics) live streamed pretty much every major class, starting from 2005 or so, and for as long as I was there. I'm pretty sure it's not that rare, especially nowadays. But it's much less useful now relatively, since there are so many courses and video resources on most STEM related subjects.

Yeah well, many colleges offer the live streams. I recently met on eof my student told me tht their college officials offer the free online video lectures. Thanks for sharing this also do visit http://tellthebelltacos.com for more hacking news.

Have you come across any good ones since?

I'd be curious to check them out!

It's not equivalent, but most courses at least post lectur slides, section notes, etc. online.

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