Editing Camcorder (section)

=== Education ===
Schools in the developed world increasingly use [[digital media]] and [[digital education]]. Students use camcorders to record video diaries, make short films and develop [[multi-media]] projects across subject boundaries. Teacher evaluation involves a teacher's classroom lessons being recorded for review by officials, especially for questions of teacher [[tenure]].

Student camcorder-created material and other [[digital electronics|digital technology]] are used in new-teacher preparation courses. The  [[University of Oxford]] Department of Education [[Postgraduate Certificate in Education|PGCE]] programme and [[NYU]]'s [[Steinhardt School]]'s Department of Teaching and Learning MAT programme are examples.

The [[USC Rossier School of Education]] goes further, insisting that all students purchase their own camcorder (or similar) as a prerequisite to their MAT education programs (many of which are delivered online). These programs employ a modified version of [[Adobe Connect]] to deliver the courses. Recordings of MAT student work are posted on USC's [[web portal]] for evaluation by [[Faculty (teaching staff)|faculty]] as if they were present in class. Camcorders have allowed USC to decentralize its teacher preparation from [[Southern California]] to most American states and abroad; this has increased the number of teachers it can train.