Berkeley Webcast (also known as webcast.berkeley) is an initiative of the

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developed by the Berkeley Multimedia Research Center (BMRC) to share video and audio of full undergraduate courses and on-campus events.Nomination of the UC Berkeley Webcast Project for the Larry Sautter Award
May 1, 2002. University of California, Office of the President Initial research at BMRC was aided by grants from the

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. Under its initial name, the "Berkeley Internet Broadcasting System," the project delivered its first seminar webcast in January 1995, with the broadcast of regular courses beginning in the spring of 1999. The site now includes over 100 full courses available through streaming RealMedia video, streaming audio, MP3 download, and

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, with availability of these different options varying by course and event. Since the fall of 2007, all Berkeley Webcast materials have been assigned a

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Attribution- NonCommercial-NoDerivatives license by default, but faculty participants and content providers can license these recordings in a variety of ways. Berkeley has started to make select webcasts originally produced for the project available on select external services —

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in 2006 and

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in 2007. Before being uploaded on

, in 2006 alone, lectures had been viewed 4.3 million times on their local host at ''webcast.berkeley''. The project was awarded the 2002 ''Larry L. Sautter Award for Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Information Technology.''Winners of the 2002 Larry L. Sautter Award
"Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Information Technology." UC Information Technology Leadership Council. University of California, Office of the President.

References

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External links

Berkeley Webcast homepage
Tertiary educational websites University of California, Berkeley Internet broadcasting