Weiner Lecture Archives

Time 2021-11-07 21:06:17

Web Name: Weiner Lecture Archives

WebSite: http://wla.berkeley.edu

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This site is closed now and is retained for historical reference.

The WLA project was started in 2004 to create "An Ontology-DrivenInterface for Viewing Synchronized Lectures and Notes", supportedby the estate of former alumnus Larry Weiner. Here is the originalabstract, from our technical report:

For several years, the lectures in our introductory ElectricalEngineering and Computer Science (EECS) courses have been videotapedand webcast, mainly as an aid to students with time conflicts thatprevent them from attending class. We present the Weiner Lecture Archives-- a project to identify, archive, filter, and make available thebest of these lectures with their notes on the web. We provide a hierarchical,ontology-driven interface to entire courses, which allows users tochoose any topic and/or subtopic to view, from a small snippet ofone lecture to one that spans many lectures. Once the topic is chosen,our system launches RealPlayer to play the lecture video in one windowwhile showing synchronized lecture notes or slides in another window.By the spring of 2007, we had finished encoding our department's entirefour-course introductory sequence into this system. Student use andfeedback has been encouraging, and we hope to expand to other EECScourses in the near future.

This was in the era before massive open online courses (MOOCs), whichtook WLA to the logical next level. So, rather than just videos shotfrom a camera in the classroom and synchronized notes, MOOCs add assessments,a learning community, certification, and higher production value videos(often shot in a studio), giving students the feeling the instructoris talking directly to them. UC Berkeley has since partnered withedX as the platform for delivery of these courses, and with the fundingof MOOCs for our non-majors course (CS10)and first two courses (CS61A and CS61B, in preparation), we have decidedto retire the WLA website with its decade-old course videos and notes.

We are deeply grateful to the Larry Weiner estate for helping us getthe ball rolling in terms of sharing our courses with the world; whatwe learned in those early years certainly influenced the design of thenext generation of courses.

Dan Garcia, 2017-02-02

last updated 2021-11-07

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