Netflix, Amazon Prime, and Hulu Plus have helped make streaming video services a staple of middle-class home entertainment in the United States over the past decade. Now, the convenience of the format could help expand the use of video as a pedagogical tool in higher education. The trend is old news to some academic libraries that long ago worked with campus IT departments to build their own streaming services to host library-owned content. But more often than not, the need for custom infrastructure, along with bandwidth and format compatibility issues, presented barriers to widespread adoption. In recent years, however, a number of new vendors and established publishers have launched streaming video services designed to simplify discovery and access and offer students and instructors an experience comparable to the consumer streaming to which they have become accustomed.
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