Gatekeepers of Knowledge

A short documentary chronicling the history of knowledge creation, from a time when universities functioned as gatekeepers of knowledge to now, when anyone can create and share knowledge via the web.

This documentary is one of Ryerson University's online learning tools, used by instructors to spark discussion in the online student forums.

For more on this topic, please go to:
http://de.ryerson.ca/lo/universities/
and click "Skip Video"

Produced By: Digital Education Strategies at The G. Raymond Chang School of Continuing Education, Ryerson University
© 2008 Ryerson University. All rights reserved.

* Canadian Network for Innovation in Education (CNIE) identified "Gatekeepers of Knowledge" as a winner of the Award of Excellence 2009 in the Media Festival.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• digital
• library
• university
• role
• medieval
• Web
• 2.0
• knowledge
• creation
• sharing
• monopoly
• gatekeepers
• distance
• continuing
• education
• online
• learning/e-learning
• Ryerson
• University
• social
• media
• user
• experience
• folk
• culture
• Raymond
• Chang
• School
• Toronto
• Canada
• college
• student
• graduation
• students
• campus
• community
• class
• institute
• program
• study
• graduate
• arts
• technology
• visual
• communications
• business
• performing
• studies

[AmericanRiver]

Bravo, well done....

[bnammari1]

I love this Documentary, it certainly shows the difference between past ways of gaining knowledge and now days, things have changed dramatically.

[ainala1]

The challenge for universities is ability to stay at the forefront of the revolutionary period in digital technology and information transfer age. Can they do it? Good question.