Distance Education @ Harvard University
During my time at Harvard as a graduate student I was given the opportunity to develop and implement a production and delivery platform for the production and publishing of online media content for online educational programs in the very early stages of video streaming technology. I was fortuned to team and partner with media technology companies such as Sony Electronics and RealNetworks in addition to several schools at Harvard for the adoption of new media standards, software frameworks and communication protocols for the distribution of digital video and multimedia content in the Internet.
My worked at Harvard represented an original contribution to the fields of Distance Education Technologies, Information Technology, and streaming media technologies by implementing and standardizing media work flows and a systems architecture that would allow Harvard University Division of Continuing Education produce and publish online educational programs to distance students within the United States and overseas. My work allowed Harvard to promote and continue further development in distance education technologies to expand their course offering across disciplines.
The key system component I developed include a content management system for the dynamic generation of Web content, compression and transcoding of video streams employing a distributed video rendering farm, designed front-end Web interfaces with embedded streaming video and audio controls, synchronization of multimedia component, and automation of processes for content publishing on video and Web servers.
Images from the original production facilities and software screen shots
