创作 Upgrades its Cross Campus Media Suite
The ability for faculty and students to share their own video content is going to school with the release of 创作版本3.0 of its Cross Campus Media Suite, an online video platform designed for education. 周二宣布, this release includes new versions of the platform's plug-ins for the Blackboard Learn, Moodle and Sakai learning management systems (LMS), 除了一个新的4.0 version of the 创作 MediaSpace campus video portal.
This release debuts user entitlements that enable students and faculty to find and share video content in a variety of ways. Using the LMS plug-ins, such as the Video Building Block for Blackboard Learn version 3.0, users can search and share videos with a single class, or across multiple courses. 创作 MediaSpace supports user uploads and permits them to create a content channel that is available only to a select group of people.
MediaSpace also supports the ability for users to record video using a webcam and create screen capture content. For administrators there are user-level statistics available to provide more fine-grained analytics.
米甲提苏尔, co-founder and president of 创作, says that the company has been focusing on end-user features. She says that "most video platforms are oriented towards content editors,但在教育方面, "faculty and students are the editors." Once you have the content—whether its licensed, captured in the classroom or recorded by faculty and students—Tsur says it's important to make it searchable not just within single courses, 但是在课程中. The addition of these user entitlements and cross-course sharing features came about in response to discussions the company had with faculty members and instructional designers.
According to Tsur, "the next phase is sharing across institutions." She notes that any one university may have only a few researchers in a given area, but they collaborate with colleagues at many other schools. Institutions should be able to tag content to be available for search and sharing in order to support this and other types of collaboration.
创作 says its rich media solutions are in use by more than 500 education institutions worldwide, having grown by 300% in the last year. In response to this growth, Tsur says that the company has doubled in size in the same period. 也, the company is focusing more on out-of-the-box solutions, 像MediaSpace, which can be installed and implemented quickly. 创作 also sponsors user groups, 社区团队, and user meet-ups to help support the unique needs of education customers.
版本3.0 of the Cross-Media Platform is available immediately to all customers using 创作's hosted, 基于云的解决方案.
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