Category: Technology

The “budget” Matterhorn server: Zoidberg

Opencast Matterhorn uses a server or cluster of servers for media transcoding, storage, and distribution. For the internal pilot of Matterhorn we’ve decided to go with a single server instead of multiple servers in a cluster. The advantage of using a cluster is scalability to accommodate more media and viewers in the future. The advantage of a single server …

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Lecture capture on a budget

The benefits of lecture capture and distribution are numerous and substantial as already demonstrated by leading institutions all around the world. Unfortunately the technology and services to provide lecture capture and distribution are prohibitively expensive for many institutions and organizations. Instead of five figures for classroom lecture capture installations, how about three figures per classroom? Instead of six figures for infrastructure …

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Faculty Spotlight – Philippe Seminet

Dr. Philippe Seminet, Literature & Languages Experimenting with Audacity and Format Factory I did a podcasting workshop last year on campus and learned how easy it is to use Audacity to do recordings for my eCollege courses. While the software allows you to do all sorts of fancy editing with background music, etc., I have …

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