Online Upstart’s Goal: MOOC Lectures That Go Viral
Wired Campus 2014-06-26
Summary:
Donald J. Boudreaux’s five-minute video lecture on the evolution of human prosperity—complete with slick animation, studio lighting, and killer graphics—looks seamless. Making it, he says, was anything but.
“It was hard,” says Mr. Boudreaux, an economics professor at George Mason University. “There were a lot of takes.”
In all, he spent two full days filming the four lectures that compose his new course, “Everyday Economics.” The result—produced by a professional film studio in San Francis...