November 30, 2007

Colleges Try to Make Podcasting of Courses Easier

By JEFFREY R. YOUNGBy JOSH FISCHMAN

Professors around the world could someday podcast their lectures as easily as pushing a button, thanks to a cooperative effort to develop free open-source software led by officials at the University of California at Berkeley.

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. The fledgling project is far from producing any software, but participants say the

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