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. > Read more
First, I would like to thank you for the overwhelming swell of support and appreciation for our work here at webcast.berkeley. Your thoughts and comments have been incredibly reaffirming at a time when we are both excited about our new website and challenged by the retirement of a number of truly wonderful course lecture series from our public catalog.
Nearly a year ago ETS began planning to retire the webcast server that had powered webcast.berkeley's ability to serve videos to students, the campus community, and life-long learners around the globe for the past 7 years. In our planning we discussed what the future of webcast.berkeley should look like and how we should serve content to our viewers. Today marks the culmination of that year long planning effort with the launch of the new webcast.berkeley website.
In a new book released in January 2011, “Unlocking the Gates,” webcast.berkeley is featured as one of six case studies examining “How and Why Leading Universities are Opening Up Access to Their Courses.” Author Taylor Walsh profiles initiatives from some of the most elite universities – Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Carnegie Mellon, Yale and UC Berkeley – that make course materials available online to the general public.
Harry Kreisler celebrated a major milestone when the 500th episode of his Conversations With History series aired this month. These 500 shows have been produced by ETS (and its previous incarnations as Office of Media Servies and Office of Television Services) over the course of nearly 28 years.
The Opencast Community, led by UC Berkeley's Educational Technology Services and 12 partner universities, have launched a freely available software application to more easily and affordably record and distribute rich media educational content over the Internet. Dubbed Matterhorn 1.0, the new open source application can produce lecture recordings, manage existing video, publish video to the web, and enable students to engage with educational videos.
As part of the webcast.berkeley distribution portfolio, Apple's iTunes U plays an important role in extending the reach of UC Berkeley's course lectures and campus events to a whole new audience through a special section in the iTunes store. With over 8,000 tracks available in UC Berkeley's iTunes U catalog, we are focused on improving the student experience by making course lectures & campus events available through a familiar interface and on broadening the public's window of access to UC Berkeley's rich intellectual resources.
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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 
