ShareStream provides academic libraries and consortia with the capability to consolidate multiple “silos” of rich media content into enterprise-wide, common-content repositories empowered with state-of-the-art digital rights management (DRM) and full integration with other mission-critical library and teaching and learning systems.

ShareStream’s platform, a turnkey solution for libraries and consortia’s rich media needs, is ideal for housing both course and non-course-related collections for both public and password-protected access.

“Pick and Play” Course Media Page that provides faculty and students with a single hub for course media, and a sleek and intuitive web destination for playing, browsing, and searching for the media they have privileges for directly within your institution’s learning management system.

Interoperability with Learning Management Systems through ShareStream’s Blackboard Building Block and integration point with Sakai, Moodle, eCollege, and other learning management systems

Easy Ingest for faculty members and students with no rich media expertise that allows authorized users to upload media, which is then automatically transcoded to the appropriate end formats

Digitize, Transcode, and Batch Migrate large multimedia collections in an automated fashion

Edit media through ShareStream’s online video-editing tool, which provides time-based editing, clip trimming, overlays, and other capabilities

Workflow and Business Process Management for staging the process of publishing media that includes compliance reviews and approvals

Store and manage media collections in an enterprise-wide asset management system optimized for large rich media files

Personal Media Gallery and Media Dropbox for submitting student generated content or sharing content with other students enrolled in the course

Preserve valuable content through ShareStream’s encoding methodology, which creates eMaster files to ensure that assets can be converted to future standard formats

Search and efficiently browse for and identify relevant learning objects via metadata-driven advanced search

Higher Education-specific Digital Rights Management that allows institutions to secure and control access to content, as well as manage digital media licenses

Deliver Media through On-demand Streaming, Live Streaming, and Streaming to Mobile Devices

Automatic Bandwidth-Detection and Adaptive Streaming Functionality for media delivery to users with wide ranges of Internet connectivity

Deep Embed Thumbnails to multiple locations, including websites, applications, and even emails, in a secure, password-protected manner or in an open environment, through ShareStream’s deep-embedding functionality

Podcasts into iTunes and RSS feeds in both an authenticated and open environment

Create educational videos synchronized with slides and tablet activity with ShareStream’s Course Producer module

Open API for Independent Third Party Integration

Integration with Authentication and Authorization Services and Single Sign-on Solutions

Reporting tool that audits and monitors user and content accesses

 

Bridging the Technological Divide Between the Library and Teaching and Learning Applications

Currently, libraries and academic computing systems are highly fragmented:

• The teams that manage library systems have very little interaction with the teams that run learning management systems for course-based learning.
• There is an administrative divide between the two groups as a result of the technological divide since no technology is implemented that connects the library and eLearning.
• Valuable content in the library largely lingers and is not fully leveraged to enrich online course-based learning.

The ShareStream platform changes the equation for academic computing by facilitating greater fluidity between the library and teaching and learning.

The ShareStream platform bridges the technological and administrative divide between the library and teaching and learning by making the rich media housed in the library seamlessly available for course-based learning within LMSs and other eLearning applications, while controlling content dissemination through fine-grained digital rights management.

This allows faculty and academic computing to achieve significantly greater value from the institution’s content by seamlessly bringing rich media stored in the library into the teaching and learning domain to enrich online course-based learning.