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Like all projects, I guess someone has to actually maintain them. Remember that these people are almost never in tech at all. They probably spent quite a bit of
by just_boost_it 4y ago
Like all projects, I guess someone has to actually maintain them. Remember that these people are almost never in tech at all. They probably spent quite a bit of time figuring how to put up the lecture series the first time. After a few years, they might not even remember how they did it. If a service winds down, or the university IT department makes a change to the infrastructure, they're probably not going to have the same motivation to learn how to do it all over again just to keep some old lectures up online.
- porknubbins 4y agoYeah that seems like a likely explanation, but still if there was a push to start recording and publishing courses (beyond the level of individual professors who sometimes put their courses online) they must've had dedicated staff at some point.
- just_boost_it 4y agoIt's hard to keep staff once a project is "done". Even if they wanted to stay, departments have budgets and its hard to justify a salary for someone to maintain free access to lectures. Based in the general lack of uniformity on university websites, I wouldn't be shocked if at least some of the people cobbling them together were students working part time who eventually just move on to the next stage of their careers.