Students and faculty at colleges and
universities produce an incredible amount of media. For the most part,
this is done in a very ad-hoc fashion for specific courses and research
efforts. More often than not, the content produced for these specific
courses is not used beyond the duration and population of that course -
very little sharing or broader access is possible. This means that this
valuable content has a very transient and short-lived value.
Because of the nature of a higher education environment - large
population, rapid changes in course enrollment, decentralized IT
management, etc. - it is very difficult to "democratize" access to all
the valuable content that's produced across the enterprise. |
Ancept Media Server
provides a centralized repository for all this valuable media and a
means to "transform" basic media objects into usable "learning"
objects. Students and faculty from across the enterprise are able to
easily contribute new content, apply required meta-data and
relationships to associated content to create learning objects to be
used beyond just their domain in an on-demand fashion.
Contribute–
allow all students and faculty to easily submit content, defining with
whom to share the content and associated permissions
Index
– tag the content with custom or standard meta-data schemas, like MARC or Dublin Core
Centralize
– store all content in a centralized digital repository so it
can be accessed by anyone anywhere with a Web browser
Access
– use existing tools, such as course management or learning management system to easily access and view content
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Return on investment in higher
education is often measured by improvement in the learning process.
Ancept Media Server provides a means to do just this by allowing
institution to maximize the value of content being produced for a
single course or research function. This content can now be leveraged
by multiple students and faculty in other courses across campus.
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