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Matterhorn Technology Stack Proof of Concept
Josh Holtzman and Tobias Wunden presented a proof of concept for the Matterhorn technology stack and technical landscape for the team's consideration. The first part of the session was a presentation that walked through the proposed technologies and technical requirements. For more information about this meeting, and to view the presentation, visit

Published 10 months ago

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Opencast Matterhorn Project Announcement
UC Berkeley and ETH Zurich are delighted to announce the launch of Opencast Matterhorn, an international open source software project designed to ease the recording, processing and distribution of academic content for institutions around the world. Using a communal Webcasting platform, educational technology experts and programmers from 13 partner institutions are developing a system to improve automated video and audio production for course lectures, events and other forms of online knowledge-sharing. Opencast Matterhorn is funded by grants totalling $1.5 million from the William & Flora Hewlett and Andrew W. Mellon foundations.

Published 7 months ago

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Business Analysis and User Experience Activities
During the Opencast Matterhorn Leadership and Planning Meeting, Allison Bloodworth and Judy Stern of UC Berkeley Educational Technology Services provided an overview of the Business Analysis and User Experience roles and processes. The Matterhorn BA/U Team was proposed as a unified team working together as a cross-project resource to help the Matterhorn team understand & design for user and business needs that will be more likely to be adopted and used successfully.

Published 10 months ago

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Under the Bonnet: Technical Considerations in Running Open University Podcasting
Ben Hawkridge (Open University) talks about the technical aspect of running a university podcasting service: covering questions such as server management, accessibility issues and analyzing usage statistics

Published 11 months ago

By Opencast Admin, Podcasting Conference at Oxford Universi
virtUOS
Markus Ketterl from University of Osnabrück talks about their podcasting initiatives.

Published 1 year ago

By Opencast Admin, Podcasting Conference at Oxford Universi
Opencast Technology Demo - ETH Zurich
http://www.opencastproject....Tobias Wunden from ETH Zurich demos REPLAY

Published 1 year ago

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Opencast Technology Demo - Columbia
http://www.opencastproject....Brian O'Hagan, Jr. from Columbia demos CCNMTL

Published 1 year ago

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Opencast Technology Demo - Georgia Tech
http://www.opencastproject....Sean Brennan from GA Tech demonstrates DCRS

Published 1 year ago

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Opencast Project - UC Berkeley Hopebox Message
http://www.opencastproject....Ben Hubbard presents UC Berkeley's hopebox message to the opencast community.

Published 1 year ago

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Opencast Technology Demo - UC Berkeley
http://www.opencastproject....Adam Hochman from UC Berkeley demo's webcast.berkeley

Published 1 year ago

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Opencast Project Open House at UC Berkeley
http://www.opencastproject.org/Opencast is an initiative driven by higher education institutions to empower:institutions - to make informed choices about capture, processing, and distribution infrastructure for audio/video.faculty - to teach courses and share knowledge with their students and learners worldwide without technology getting in the way.students - to access and shape media into a more meaningful tool for learning.everyone - to easily find and engage with educational video, audio, and other rich media from instructors and institutions around the world.

Published 1 year ago

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The Opencast Community Project
Olaf Schulte (ETH Zurich) talks about making podcasts available online globally through the OpenCast Community Project and the Matterhorn project and also talks about the ways ETH Zurich are making headway in the OpenCast Community Project

Published 11 months ago

By Opencast Admin, Podcasting Conference at Oxford Universi
Can you hear me now? How to get your videos into UK secondary schools
Bjoern Hassler (Cambridge University) talks about the different ways of distributing podcasts, in particular how to get podcasts into schools and considerations such as accessibility, relevance to school subjects and the potential popularity of items

Published 11 months ago

By Opencast Admin, Podcasting Conference at Oxford Universi
User Studies from Osnabruck
Markus Kettrl (Osnabruck University) talks about how the Osnabruck podcasting team record and upload audio and video podcasts of lectures and also the kinds of systems they use to achieve this

Published 11 months ago

By Opencast Admin, Podcasting Conference at Oxford Universi
Podcasting People: Stories and Experiences from real life podcasters
Guests and delegates of the 2009 Beyond Walls conference share their stories and experiences of podcasting and offer tips to one another

Published 11 months ago

By Opencast Admin, Podcasting Conference at Oxford Universi