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A selection of stories about ETS that have appeared in the local and national media.
UC Berkeley YouTube channel is one of the initial partners in the launch of Google's new automated captions tool. The tool will automatically translate speech to text and create a caption track for the transcript.
UC Berkeley Physics Professor Richard Muller, who posts his classes online using iTunes U, is sometimes recognized by fans of his podcasts at university football games. "They think they're contacting a TV personality," Muller joked. Muller, Phelan and Tim Groeling, an assistant professor of communications studies, spoke at a May 21 presentation to encourage their colleagues to join them in the podcasting revolution.
This article, inspired by a presentation at Educause in Oct 2009 by Mara Hancock and Jenn Stringer (Stanford), probes issues around lecture capture with a focus on the effects on student attendance and resistance to participate on the part of faculty.
Oprah recommends one of Berkeley's webcast courses ("Intro to Human Nutrition") among the top free online courses.
ZDNet promotes the Opencast Matterhorn project following the press release of the grant awards from Mellon and Hewlett
Chronicles of Higher Ed promotes the Opencast Matterhorn project following the press release of the grant awards from Mellon and Hewlett
SF Times article about the Opencast Matterhorn project
This article, written by ETS Senior Strategist Victor Edmonds, was published in the Educause Review, vol. 43, no. 5 (September/October 2008). It provides an overview of the past, present and future of webcasting lectures.
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