Alexandra Juhasz, a Professor of Media Studies in theUS, has just taught a complete course through the medium of YouTube and blogged on the experience (how cringingly hip is that?). To quote from this and a related article in the Chronicle, she said that the features of the site broke down the power relations of the academic classroom, and as a result, "the nature of teaching and learning shifts (I’d say for the worse)."
There was an item on the evening news tonight about secondary school children making their own video clips to illustrate practical science.
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That sounds a bit more do-able as a teaching exercise.