Simulcast Lectures is an innovative lecture content annotation, capture, and management system being developed by team of undergraduates at theUniversity of California, San Diego.

The project was conceptualized on February 21st, 2010 by James McCloskey and Kevin Crossan.  In the time since then, the team has produced three user interfaces for lecturers to use and expanded its focus to include web-based lecture content management, student polling features, and exploring new touchscreen technologies.  As of Q1 2011, there are over fifteen engineers on the Simulcast Lectures team.

Simulcast Lectures is currently a Teams in Engineering Service (TIES) project, which graciously provides funding as well.  The project was initially funded by Intel.

How it works

Lecturer’s Laptop 

is connected to a

Podium with Touchscreen and Computer

and then the presentation is captured and uploaded to Justin.tv,

where

Student Laptops and Devices

can access the content.

Lecture content is also projected to the class with the class projector.