What is "tele-TASK"

tele-TASK (tele-Teaching Anywhere Solution Kit) is an advanced mobile system for the production of Internet streaming videos and podcasts featuring a new and drastically simplified technology. The systems was developed by Prof. Dr. Christoph Meinel and his team and is meanwhile used in many universities alround the world. Whether at home or at the office, everyone can now access online courses, presentations and Internet events live using a normal Internet connection. tele-TASK also allows providers to make their content available both offline and on-demand in the form of digital media such as CD-ROMs and DVDs. No special expertise is required to use the tele-TASK system - its revolutionary usability allows easy access to content with just one single click!

Here are some links to the tele-TASK portal which provides meanwhile more than 3.500 recorded telelectures: 

• Newest lectures at the HPI
  
• Events and Conferences
  
• Technology description of the tele-TASK System
  
• Press about the tele-TASK system
  

If you like to record and transmit your presentations over the Internet online and offline with our tele-TASK system, simply buy tele-TASK ... 

The tele-TASK Developer Team: 

• Prof. Dr. Christoph Meinel
• Diplom-Inf. Maria Siebert
• Franka Grünewald, MSc.
• Diplom-Ing. Haojin Yang
• Diplom-Inf. Matthias Bauer
• Frank Priester (Technical Support)
• Former Members:
• Volker Schillings
• Tongbo Chen
• Mingchao Ma
• Mathias Kutzner
• Bert Baumann
• Long Wang
• Andreas Groß

The tele-TASK-Symposium:

The tele-TASK-Symposium is an annual event at the Hasso-Plattner-Institut which lasts over two days and brings together research experts from universities and the industry to discuss perspectives on tele-Teaching.

Please read more about current and recent tele-TASK-Symposia on the symposium website www.tele-task.de/symposium.

Scientific Publications about tele-TASK

• Serge Linckels, Carole Dording, Yves Kreis, Robert Reuter, Claude Weber, Christoph Meinel
  Teaching with Information and Communication Technologies: Preliminary Results of a Large Scale Survey
  Proc. SIGUCCS Fall'09, ACM Press, St Louis, MO, USA, October, 2009 (to appear)
• Andreas Groß, Bert Baumann, Justus Bross, Christoph Meinel
  Distribution to Multiple Platforms Based on One Video Lecture Archive
  Proc. SIGUCCS Fall'09, ACM Press, St Louis, MO, USA, October, 2009 (to appear)
• Stephan Repp, Christoph Meinel
  Automatic Extraction of Semantic Descriptions from the Lecturer's Speech
  Proc. 3rd ICSC, IEEE Press, Berkeley, CA, USA, September, 2009 (to appear)
• [more]

Contact:

Prof. Dr. Christoph Meinel
Hasso-Plattner-Institut für Softwaresystemtechnik
Prof.-Dr.-Helmert-Str. 2-3
D-14482 Potsdam, Germany
Tel: +49(0)331/5509-222
Fax: +49(0)331/5509-325
Email: tele-task"at"hpi.uni-potsdam.de