Abstract: Aiming at the high cost and long production period of current online courses, a teaching video service platform based on streaming media technology is designed. Teachers can carry on the course live broadcast and make the course videos while giving their face-to-face lectures or workshop. This paper adopts Java SSM architecture to implement the course videos making and to guarantee the flexibility of broadcasting plan. Wowza streaming media server is utilized to realize the live and on-demand function of the teaching platform. After putting this platform into practical use, we make and transfer some courses on MOOC and provide a new way for students to learn. And the platform works stably and well. It is also beneficial to the improvement of teachers’ teaching skills.

Key words: online teaching, streaming media technology, Wowza, Java SSM, HTML5