Operational Management of a Course Casting Program: Past,

Present and Open Source Future

Richard Bloom

Michelle Ziegmann

University of California Berkeley

1995

2001

4/2006

9/2006

10/2007

Webcast Services

• Video Podcast – Capture of video with audio

• Audio Podcast – Capture of audio only

• Screencast – Capture of computer output or document camera with

audio

How Students use Webcast

• Time Shift• Study Tool• Learning From

Other Classes• Communication

Problems• Disabilities• Instructor Time

Shift

Automated Participation Management & Licensing

•Opt in using bSpace (Sakai)

•w.b. administration app tracks approvals

•© UC Regents - or - CC 2.5

•UC Berkeley makes no claim on the IP

•Policies & release forms available at:

http://webcast.berkeley.edu

Video/Audio Capable Rooms

• Four Large Lecture Halls– Pimentel - 523 seats– Dwinelle 155 - 481 seats– Wheeler Auditorium - 732 seats– VLSB 2050 -429 seats– Plus a 30 seat Video Conferencing Classroom

37 Screencast/Audio Capable Rooms - 50 to 200 seats

• Barker 101 • Barrows 126 • Cory 277 • Donner Lab 155 • Dwinelle 145 • Etcheverry 3106 • Etcheverry 3107 • Etcheverry 3108 • Etcheverry 3109 • Etcheverry 3111 • Etcheverry 3113 • Evans 10 • Evans 60 • Kroeber 155 • LeConte 1

• LeConte 2• LeConte 3 • LeConte 4• McCone 141• Moffit 101 • Moffit 102 • Moffit 103 • Moffit 106 • Morgan 101 • Mulford 159 • Northgate 105 • Tan 180 • VLSB 2040 • VLSB 2060 • Wheeler 213

Webcast.berkeley.edu

Total Views Since 2001: 83,422,719

http://itunes.berkeley.edu/

Total Views Since 2006: 13,530,164

iTunes Distribution Partner

http://www.youtube.com/ucberkeley

Total Views Since 2006: 9,393,963

YouTube Distribution Channel

Opencast Matterhorn

An enterprise-level, open-source platform to support the management of educational audio and video content

Opencast MatterhornWith Matterhorn, an institution can:• capture and produce lecture recordings• manage existing video• serve designated distribution channels• provide user interfaces to engage students with

educational videos• at no licensing cost (open source!)

Matterhorn is also a framework of media services, highly configurable to meet individual institutional needs

Matterhorn Project Timeline

10/2007

8/20104/2008 6/2009

RequirementsGathering

8/2008 7/2009 7/2010

Design & Development

1.0

1.1

12/2010

Matterhorn Project Partners

Opencast Community Organizations

MyBerkeley Student Portal

• Sakai 3-based MyBerkeley portal

• Integration of webcast.berkeley widget, featuring Matterhorn Engage player

Next Steps

• Tighter integration with learning activities (Sakai 3)

• Enhance capture capability to large lecture halls (Spring 2010?)

• Pilot multi-stream capture in a few smaller classrooms (Spring 2010?)

• As classroom technology is refreshed, update capture capabilities

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