YouTube has blocked MIT's educational video clips for 4 days because of updated 'partner agreements' and it's left the university frustrated.

Late last week, videos from MIT OpenCourseWare posted to YouTube mysteriously became inaccessible on the Google-owned site.

OpenCourseWare is in charge of sharing teachings from MIT, one of the country's most respected research universities, with the rest of the world. The school's most popular videos on YouTube are typically recordings of lectures on computer science and mathematics. It's not the kind of thing that might be considered unsavory, controversial or a violation of YouTube's policies.

And yet, YouTube decided to block these educational videos from public view. The school wasn't informed of the reasons and hasn't a clue about how to get them back up. As of Tuesday afternoon, the videos were still inaccessible.

"We're quite frustrated by it," said Curt Newton, the MIT OpenCourseWare's director, in an interview Tuesday with Business Insider.

He said the program's YouTube videos generate millions of views from across the globe. Teachers use them in their classrooms. Students study them.

Also late last week, the same thing happened to clips from the Blender Foundation, the nonprofit that oversees the Blender open-source 3D content-creation program, according to a Blender blog post.

YouTube hasn't said much about why the videos were blocked to the site operators or journalists.

A lesson about our dependence on YouTube
"Videos on a limited number of sites have been blocked as we updated our partner agreements," the company told Business Insider in a statement. "We are working with MIT OpenCourseWare and Blender Foundation to get their videos back online."

The only problem with that is MIT and Blender say they're completely in the dark as to why their videos were blocked or when they might return.

The leading theory among tech-news sites is that the cause of the trouble must be a glitch with YouTube's content filtering system. The filter is supposed to scan videos and flag those that violate the site's policies. In practice, disturbing and graphic video clips sometimes get through the filter while benign videos that adhere to YouTube's rules are removed.

YouTube's statement that the problem lies with the company's partner agreements seems to indicate that the problem might simply be an administrative, paperwork issue.

Whatever the reason, the incident shows our dependence on YouTube as a fundamental part of a modern infrastructure, in which entities from news publishers to universities depend on it to distribute videos.

In the past few years YouTube has appeared to struggle to maintain control of a site that sees more than 400 hours of video posted to it every minute and 1.8 billion viewers every month. All that growth appears to have made YouTube enormously valuable.

But the flip side is that one of the nation's premiere universities had its videos removed, wasn't informed of the reasons and was prevented from resolving the issue after four days.

Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/youtube-blocked-mit-clips-and-program-director-is-quite-frustrated-2018-6?IR=T

Supremacy

I thought there're a lot of geeks at MIT

Can't YouTube be hacked?

isoright

Noted

Which kind wahala b ds?

Hmmm..

Google, u should sha remember that once, there was Yahoo!

Lecturing as a profession may soon thread the path of extinction

OK.

Na only MIT?? Go on YouTube and search out jay Zs "Girls,girls,girls," word online is it was blocked due to racist lyrics....

Don't know if their wereey done go now sha.

Its time for us to have a site dedicate to this open course ware....and accessible just like youtube.

They can't understand this type of topic so they wouldn't even comment

looseweight:
Lecturing as a profession may soon thread the path of extinction

You really think you can gain knowledge by reading books and watching videos?
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Lectures are like coaches. Sure you are doing the work. But they are the ones who tell you how and when to do it. Otherwise you over labour yourself, miss your goal and give up out of frustration.

Those who would click on this article are likely academically inclined so...

You guys can check EdX.org and Coursera.org for more free online courses...some with certificates.

KINGwax007:
Google, u should sha remember that once, there was Yahoo!

Yoku is a replacement of YouTube in China.If only one can speak Chinese,it's also good

Dream school.

uuzba:


You really think you can gain knowledge by reading books and watching videos?
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Lectures are like coaches. Sure you are doing the work. But they are the ones who tell you how and when to do it. Otherwise you over labour yourself, miss your goal and give up out of frustration.

Are you a lecturer?

uuzba:


You really think you can gain knowledge by reading books and watching videos?
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Lectures are like coaches. Sure you are doing the work. But they are the ones who tell you how and when to do it. Otherwise you over labour yourself, miss your goal and give up out of frustration.

Lol... I actually learn better this way. It's all about interest and discipline.

Really...?

ponlear:
Supremacy

I thought there're a lot of geeks at MIT

Can't YouTube be hacked?

It would only take three minutes

nairalandaddict:
They can't understand this type of topic so they wouldn't even comment

Hahaha exactly my thought since it's not Tonto Dikeh or Borbrisky's stories .

Let me educate them small :

MIT stands for Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA.

It is rated one of the best IT institute in the world.

The Institute is an independent, coeducational, privately endowed university, organized into five Schools (architecture and planning; engineering; humanities, arts, and social sciences; management; and science). It has some 1,000 faculty members, more than 11,000 undergraduate and graduate students, and more than 130,000 living alumni.
At its founding in 1861, MIT was an educational innovation, a community of hands-on problem solvers in love with fundamental science and eager to make the world a better place.

MIT’s spirit of interdisciplinary exploration has fueled many scientific breakthroughs and technological advances. A few examples: the first chemical synthesis of penicillin and vitamin A. The development of radar and creation of inertial guidance systems. The invention of magnetic core memory, which enabled the development of digital computers. Major contributions to the Human Genome Project. The discovery of quarks. The invention of the electronic spreadsheet and of encryption systems that enable e-commerce. The creation of GPS. Pioneering 3D printing. The concept of the expanding universe.

Current research and education areas include digital learning; nanotechnology; sustainable energy, the environment, climate adaptation, and global water and food security; Big Data, cybersecurity, robotics, and artificial intelligence; human health, including cancer, HIV, autism, Alzheimer’s, and dyslexia; biological engineering and CRISPR technology; poverty alleviation; advanced manufacturing; and innovation and entrepreneurship.

MIT’s impact also includes the work of our alumni. One way MIT graduates drive progress is by starting companies that deliver new ideas to the world. A recent study estimates that as of 2014, living MIT alumni have launched more than 30,000 active companies, creating 4.6 million jobs and generating roughly $1.9 trillion in annual revenue. Taken together, this "MIT Nation" is equivalent to the 10th-largest economy in the world!

ponlear:
Supremacy

I thought there're a lot of geeks at MIT

Can't YouTube be hacked?

Yes they can in a matter of seconds sef. But most of the IT geeks from MIT works with Google. They are even partners.

Abudu2000:
Na only MIT?? Go on YouTube and search out jay Zs "Girls,girls,girls," word online is it was blocked due to racist lyrics....

Don't know if their wereey done go now sha.

At least the reason why JayZ's song was blocked is obvious. In case you don't know JayZ's song was blocked because the content contravenes YouTube's policies.

Now why is MIT's video inaccessible on YouTube for the past four days?

looseweight:
Lecturing as a profession may soon thread the path of extinction

Technology may obliterate other professions but not the teaching profession.

ponlear:
Supremacy

I thought there're a lot of geeks at MIT

Can't YouTube be hacked?

There are but this recourse will do more harm than good.

Oh finally I now know why.Thanks for the info

I was trying to watch a Machine Learning course on MIT Opencourseware since yesterday with no luck.

Maxcollins042:

At least the reason why JayZ's song was blocked is obvious. In case you don't know JayZ's song was blocked because the content contravenes YouTube's policies.

Now why is MIT's video inaccessible on YouTube for the past four days?

SeriaBravo:
Oh finally I now know why.Thanks for the info

I was trying to watch a Machine Learning course on MIT Opencourseware since yesterday with no luck.

Perhaps it's a glitch in the content filtering system which the institute and the channel users hope would get rectified as soon as possible.