About Opencast
About Opencast
Why Opencast?
Opencast is an initiative driven by higher education institutions to empower…
>> institutions to make informed choices about capture, processing, and distribution infrastructure for audio/video.
>> faculty to teach courses and share knowledge with their students and learners worldwide without technology getting in the way.
>> students to access and shape media into a more meaningful tool for learning.
>> everyone to easily find and engage with educational video, audio, and other rich media from instructors and institutions around the world.
What is the Opencast Community?
The Opencast community is a collaboration of higher education institutions working together to explore, define, and document podcasting best practices and technologies. Through the listserv and Best Practice Guidelines wiki, the community offers guidance and information to help others choose the best approach for delivering rich media online.
What is the Opencast Matterhorn Project?
Deriving from planning activities that have taken place throughout this past year, a group of institutions from the Opencast community have come together and made a commitment around an Opencast build project. These partners have developed a proposal to build an enterprise-level, easy-to-install open source podcast and rich media capture, processing and delivery system. This system has been named Opencast Matterhorn.
Visit the Matterhorn Project wiki for current news on this project.
Acknowledgement
The Opencast community work has been partly funded by a generous grant from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
