Borrowing from the friendly structure of the Youtube channels, CornellCast provides users with the most important video content produced by Cornell University. Content can also be accessed through the two main academic video sharing files, 8YoutubeEdu and iTunesU, from links on the site’s homepage. CornellCast is an improved extension and autonomous section of the CyberTower portal, the program of Cornell’s Adult University, a department within Cornell’s School of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions. CyberTower includes three principal sections: Forums – where leading Cornell faculty members discuss current issues – Study Rooms – mini-courses featuring members of the Cornell faculty where each “room” hosts video-streamed lectures on a selected topic and provides links to specially-selected Websites, and Tower Topics – short videos highlighting some of the most important research conducted by Cornell faculty members. The videos – more than 1,000 have recently been added – are organized by category, series, topic and playlist and accompanied by descriptive details such as date, tags, duration, links to longer videos, and personalization tools, such as the bookmarks available for subscribers. All the audio-visual content, freely accessible on the website, can be viewed, linked, and posted on social networks and embedded on websites. An RSS feed tool is also available, with other options such as feedback and areas for submitting content.
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