Session Title: Opencast Project and Community
Presenter: Mara Hancock, Director for Educational Technologies, University of California, Berkeley
Time & Date: 2:30 P.M. - 3:15 P.M., Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Location: Rm. C100
Session Description: The Opencast Project is an open source community, bringing together higher ed institutions and other organizations working with the capture and dissemination of video and audio. This presentation will talk about the past year’s effort to establish the community, the larger vision of the project, and some of the resulting projects. The discussion will focus on the Opencast Matterhorn project, a partnership with thirteen contributing universities, which aims to deliver an open-source, easy-to-deploy, yet enterprise-capable system that would enable universities, media, and cultural organizations to integrate rich media content into the mission-critical teaching, learning, research, and knowledge-sharing environments they support. In this effort, the Opencast project aims to lower the cost of video and audio podcasting and increase the access to this content for all learners through open distribution paths, embedded captioning workflows and tools, improved learning environments, and enhanced discoverability. Since its inception in March 2008, the Opencast Community has expanded to over 255 higher education institutions worldwide and also drawn the support of organizations beyond higher education that are eager to open their audio and video content to the world.
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