What is a Mediacast?

"Mediacasts" are collections of media reports. These can be audio casts (pure audio plays), slide casts (presentations with animations or additional audio track), or video casts (video files). Moreover, graphics can be provided as mediacasts. With the help of the ILIAS object "Mediacast", you can create such a collection and make it available to your students in an ILIAS course.

What can the Mediacast be used for?

A mediacast can be used in many ways. Its main advantage is that you can provide a whole collection of media articles. As a work instruction to your students, you could, for example, communicate that they should watch the mediacast on the topic "XY" until the next session, so that you can discuss the content together later in the classroom. Students can also upload learning outcomes in the form of media (e.g. videos, audios) into a mediacast and make them visible to all course members, provided they have the appropriate authorisation.

Example: Mediacast on the topic "Museums in Freiburg"

In the degree program in Art History, the teachers dedicate a seminar to the topic "Development of Museums in Freiburg". Recently, there have been interesting reports on this topic in the media that the teacher would like to use as a basis for a seminar discussion.
In the mediacast, the teacher therefore includes a radio report from the university radio station as well as a television report (linked to the SWR media library). There is also a recording of a lecture by a teacher friend that is also included in the mediacast. He or she then asks the students to watch all the contributions and to answer the relevant questions.