Why doesn every DEMRI Portal resource offer video lectures?
Each DEMRI Portal resource is developed individually and/or with other participating portal users. It includes as much of the contributors materials as is available in a digital format, or can be cost-effectively prepared; and is free of Intellectual Property and copyright restrictions. DEMRI staff and users publish only as much content as they are comfortable having on a Web site that is freely accessible worldwide. Although video lectures are useful, there are many reasons that DEMRI Portal does not include video lectures for all resources. First is the issue of bandwidth. We are very much focused on making DEMRI’s resource materials as accessible as possible to users all over the world, including the developing world. If we were to start depending on the video component as THE most important or key element of a particular course, we would be excluding a large portion of the DEMRI Portal audience who are still surfing the Web on 28K modems, and would never be able to download the vid
