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The Opencast Community is a network of academic institutions, individuals, and corporate organisations using and further developing the open source video management system Opencast. Opencast was created to solve the need identified with academic institutions to run an affordable, flexible and enterprise-ready video management systems, and has grown into a robust community of innovators worldwide.
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Established in 1365, the University of Vienna is one of the oldest and largest universities in Europe and the largest research institution in Austria with currently 20 faculties and centres. In Media & Learning, the University of Vienna participates through its Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL), providing lecturers and students with the support and services they need to develop their didactic competencies and study skills.
The division for educational development (AHU), is an academic development unit commissioned to contribute to the development of education on all levels. We collaborate with the faculties and other educational development units within the university in offering courses on higher education pedagogy and supporting teachers. Research regarding development of higher education pedagogy is conducted at the unit. AHU also is specially commissioned to support the development of e-learning at the university and has responsibility for managing and supporting some systems for e-learning, including learning management systems, video platforms, and e-meeting tools. Drop-in online workshops held regularly help the university’s teaching staff with the use of these platforms and tools. AHU also houses a video studio for the filming, editing, and production of educational videos. Similar video studios are found at some other faculties at Lund university, too.
virtUOS is an academic service provider for the entire university. Our services range from pedagogical consulting for lecturers, infrastructure services for digital teaching (LMS, lecture recording, video conferencing and more) to the management of student data. Additionally virtUOS is also a research and development department, where several software developers work on open-source educational software, and pedagogues research the effect of digital teaching projects.