Universities will broadcast using a laptop and webcam, while synchronising with PowerPoint slides, flash or video footage. As a result, over 150,000 Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET) members will be able to keep up with engineering and technology advancements as they happen.
Lectures, seminars and conferences can be streamed and automatically archived to allow for instant ‘on demand’ access to content. Viewers can watch and interact with the speaker using live Q&A, and video content will be divided into four IPTV channels: IET news, technology, research seminars, and corporate presentations (for companies to deliver white papers and product messages).
While we are becoming used to receiving digital content, such as podcasts, from mainstream broadcasters, IET.tv offers the opportunity for research groups within universities to become content producers and to bring researchers bit closer together, said Dr Lee Gillam, of the department of computing at the University of Surrey.
