webcast.berkeley

Webcast.berkeley is the campus service for recording and publishing course and campus events for students and learners around the globe. Audio and video recordings of class lectures and special events are processed and made available to everyone through webcast.berkeley.edu. The webcast.berkeley service leverages technology to lower the overall cost of production and distribution, and make it easy for faculty to webcast their courses.

Since 2001, webcast.berkeley has provided the world with a window into the UC Berkeley classroom and campus events experience via online video and audio. From UC Berkeley students to life-long learners around the globe, millions of viewers have tuned-in to view the over 16,000 hours of content available on webcast.berkeley.

Recording, processing, and publishing hundreds of hours of content each week requires a professional staff and a smart approach.

Automation

We focus on leveraging technology to bring down the overall cost of production and distribution. Our locally developed system automatically invites eligible faculty to participate each semester, manages their responses, create and schedule course recordings, and process and publish media files to webcast.berkeley.

Easy to Use

By allowing faculty to sign up for webcast.berkeley right from their course website, we make it easy for faculty who are interested in participating in webcast.berkeley to sign up. Once they are signed up, all they need to do is show up for class and put on a microphone before they begin their lecture, we take care of the rest.

Industry Partnerships

ETS has establish strategic distribution partnerships with iTunes U and YouTube. By delivering high quality content to viewers where they are, these partnerships extend webcast.berkeley's reach.

Community Engagement

In 2007 ETS initiated the Opencast Community, a place for individuals to engage and collaborate with each other around webcast/podcast technologies.

The Opencast Community recently announced the launch of the Opencast Matterhorn community source development project, collaboration between 13 partner institutions to develop and deliver an open-source automated lecture audio and video capture, processing, and distribution system.