Member organisation
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.
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We are part of the Hogeschool van Amsterdam (Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences), an organisation that provide 45.00 students with a meaningful education. Our department provides the weblectures for students. We also run a studio (New Media Services) in which we record knowledge clips for teachers and support livestream webinars.
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.
Associació Verificat is a Barcelona-based non-profit fact-checking platform dedicated to political and scientific fact-checking, and to education for the critical consumption of information. Verificat’s newsroom continuously monitors Catalan news, through methods grounded in fact-checking, investigative and transparency journalism, and data journalism. Verificat is highly active in media literacy and education and maintains an education programme in which it works with school students, university students, and young people on basic verification techniques and to instill digital information responsibility.