Providing accessible and portable video lecturing using content transcoding

E-learning has the potential to reach students worldwide, making education a resource available to every user, anywhere, anytime, and from any network and device. However, many people will be excluded from the benefits of Web-based education if constrains to guarantee so wide an access are not considered in the design stage. Offering universal access to E-learning and T-learning does not mean sacrificing interactivity or appeal by producing textbased lectures. Furthermore, as technologies develop, rich media are becoming common resources for e-learning activities and a set of transcoding mechanisms could effectively improve portability and accessibility of on-line lectures. In this context, we present an application designed to support accessibility of on-line education that automatically produces accessible and portable versions of lectures, to be experienced on different networks, applications and devices.