Any internet user of the world can go to the Switch Tube video portal and view the videos which are publicly accessible. However, only registered members can create new video channels and can also define the level of confidentiality for these channels. As an owner of a video channel, you can restrict the viewing permission to anyone with an AAI / Switch Edu-ID login, to anyone within your organisation or to anyone belonging to a small group of defined people.
The videos and audios, as well as all attachements to a audio/video or channel are stored on Switch Tube, which is hosted in the data centers of Switch. These data centers are located in Switzerland and connected to the academic network of Switch. Regarding treatment of data we are conform to the relevant Swiss law and regulations.
Open Educational Resources (OERs) are any type of educational materials that are in the public domain or introduced with an open license. The nature of these open materials means that anyone can legally and freely copy, use, adapt and re-share them. OERs range from textbooks to curricula, syllabi, lecture notes, assignments, tests, projects, audio, video and animation.
You can can make use of OER by defining the content of your video channel publicly available to all and adding a suitable creative commons licence. For more information about OERs, please click on this link here or here.
When the same video is called many times in a loop, the performance or response time of Switch Tube could become somewhat slow. This could happen for example when a video is placed in a banner or carousel of a web page with autoplay turned on. The slow performance is causing the thumbnails of other videos to load with some delay or not at all.
In order to keep the traffic to our video stream servers low, please add the appendix ?intent=kiosk to your video whenever such a video is used in a loop or carousel on a web page. The video is then kept in special cache memory and slow read requests to the servers will be avoided.
An embed code to a video would then become for example: https://tube.switch.ch/embed/84870068?intent=kiosk
or - if the video should automatically start whenever it is called: https://tube.switch.ch/embed/84870068?autoplay&intent=kiosk
For a comprehensive overview of the current landscape of Creative Commons licenses in Switzerland, please refer to the CC Wiki. Utilizing a Creative Commons license ensures that your work remains freely available for others to use, adapt, and share, while clearly defining the terms of its reuse.