About ETS

Mission & Vision

Educational Technology Services develops, promotes and supports the effective integration of collaboration, learning, and communication technologies into the life and work of the UC Berkeley community and beyond.

We are a world leading organization, bringing to the learning technology field a level of intelligence, innovation, and effectiveness fitting for the world's foremost public University.

We at ETS feel we have a special responsibility for the dissemination of knowledge, for advancing those frontiers and for enriching the human experience.

Strategic Principles

ETS asserts the following principles upon which strategic initiatives and program planning are based:

Lead with Teaching and Learning
Be the Teaching & Learning & Collaboration Technology Infrastructure
Innovation with Purpose
Open Educational Doors
Partner for Impact

Balanced Scorecard

Backed by these strategic principles and based on a comprehensive review of its programs to ensure that our services were well aligned with the ETS mission and our clients' needs, a Balanced Scorecard was developed that outlines our goals and objectives.

ETS Services

ETS staffs and supports the central technology services essential to teaching and learning. We support faculty using technology tools to enhance learning. We provide AV support, webcasting, and production services that help to share UC Berkeley's intellectual riches to the campus and the world.

We invite you to explore our website and learn about our key services ~

bSpace, UC Berkeley's implementation of the Sakai collaboration and learning environment, which provides course sites for instruction and project sites for collaboration.
Technology Classrooms, providing AV, computer projection, and podcast technology in over 165 General Assignment classrooms.
webcast.Berkeley, disseminating Berkeley courses and special events to the public.
Faculty development and support for all our instructional services.
Videoconferencing and AV Special Event services for faculty, staff, and departments.
AV Design & Engineering services, providing AV design for classrooms and departmental spaces.

ETS is also the home of KALX Radio, the UC Berkeley community radio station.

Communities & Partners

ETS believes in open partnerships, communities, and systems. We lead the Opencast project, an initiative which is creating an open source podcast capture and distribution system to lower the barriers to webcasting for the higher education community. We collaborate in the development of Sakai, an open source Collaboration and Learning Environment, and in the Fluid (Flexible User Interface Design) project.

Our Place in the University

Educational Technology Services reports directly to Catherine Koshland, Vice Provost for Teaching, Learning, Academic Planning and Facilities (http://vpapf.chance.berkeley.edu/) and works in close partnership with Information Systems and Technology (http://ist.berkeley.edu/), the Office of the Registrar (http://registrar.berkeley.edu), and the University Library (http://library.berkeley.edu).