November 20, 2007

Colleges Collaborate on Software to Help Capture and Archive Recordings of Lectures

By Jeffrey R. Young

Officials at the University of California at Berkeley are leading a cooperative effort to develop free, open-source software to make it easier for professors around the world to podcast their lectures.

The university recently started the effort, called OpenCast, and officials at more than 30 colleges and other institutions have joined an e-mail list to discuss the next steps. A sketch of the OpenCast system and list of participating colleges can be found on the project's

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