ShareStream Press Room
ShareStream Announces Availability of Building Block for Blackboard Learn, Release 9.1
Monday, July 12, 2010
ShareStream’s Rich Media Building Block for Asynchronous Teaching and Learning Completed in Collaboration with Georgetown University’s Interoperability Lab for Scholarly Systems
WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ShareStream, a leading provider of rich media platforms for higher education, and distance learning, announced today the release of its Rich Media Building Block for Blackboard Learn,™ Release 9.1. ShareStream’s new Blackboard Building Block™ is already live across the country at multiple institutions that will migrate to Release 9.1 for the Fall semester. This announcement follows ShareStream’s longstanding interoperability with previous releases of the Blackboard Learn platform..
With the advent of online video, audio, and podcasts, rich media has rapidly become an integral component of teaching and learning. The ShareStream Rich Media Platform, which was developed in collaboration with Georgetown University at its Sun Center of Excellence, provides a turnkey system for creating, editing, storing, managing and securely delivering rich media assets, designed specifically to fulfill rising demand from faculty, students and administrators for integrating rich media into online course delivery. ShareStream’s Rich Media Building Block for Release 9.1 allows educational institutions to extend the Blackboard Learn platform with a state-of-the-art rich media solution for the full lifecycle of media available seamlessly within the familiar context of the Blackboard Learn environment.
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ShareStream Becomes Blackboard Signature Partner
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
As a Blackboard Signature Partner™, ShareStream Facilitates Continued Interoperability between their Rich Media Blackboard Building Block and the Blackboard Learn Platform
GAITHERSBURG, Md.--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--ShareStream, a leading provider of rich media platforms for higher education, K-12 and distance learning, announced this week that it has joined the Blackboard Alliance Program™ as a Blackboard Signature Partner™.
With the advent of online video, audio and podcasts, rich media has rapidly become an integral component of teaching and learning. The ShareStream Rich Media Platform, which was developed in collaboration with Georgetown University at its Sun Center of Excellence, provides a turnkey system for creating, managing and securely delivering rich media assets, designed specifically to fulfill rising demand from faculty, students and administrators for integrating rich media into online course delivery.
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OnCallData Provides Media-Based Training and Secure Communications within Its Community Health Portal Through Integration with ShareStream
Friday, May 14, 2010
GAITHERSBURG, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--OnCallData, whose pioneering electronic-prescribing product was the first electronic prescribing application to launch two-way connectivity with national pharmacy chains, announced this week that it has integrated its systems with ShareStream, a rich media platform that allows organizations to educate and train their workforces through multimedia while safeguarding and controlling access to content during online delivery through digital rights management (DRM), to provide online learning and secure, media-based communications within the OnCallData Community Health Portal.
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ShareStream Announces Release of Basic Edition at the MAALT-SEALLT Joint Conference at Georgetown University
Monday, March 15, 2010
ShareStream Basic Provides Low-Barrier to Entry Access to ShareStream Platform for Language Laboratories, Communications Offices, K-12, and Other Departments
WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ShareStream, a leading provider of rich media-management and delivery platforms for higher education, announced today at the MAALT-SEALLT 2010 Joint Conference held at Georgetown University the release of ShareStream Basic, an entry-level edition of ShareStream provided as a software-as-a-service (SaaS). ShareStream Basic is designed for language-learning laboratories, communications offices, K-12, as well as other departments where the use of online multimedia is mission-critical.
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ShareStream Announces Development of API for Third-party Integration
Monday, December 14, 2009
GAITHERSBURG, Md.--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--ShareStream, a leading provider of rich media-management and delivery platforms for higher education, announced this week that it has developed a web service API and software development kit (SDK) for third-party integration. The API will allow ShareStream’s customers and system integrators to independently integrate ShareStream’s platform with other mission-critical systems, such as learning management systems (LMSs), document management systems, and digital preservation repositories.
Development of its web service API furthers ShareStream’s mission of fully integrating its platform with educational institutions’ scholarly systems to ensure that rich media stored in ShareStream is seamlessly accessible in a secure and controlled manner wherever online teaching and learning, and research take place. This announcement follows ShareStream’s longstanding interoperability with learning management systems, including Blackboard, Sakai, and eCollege, as well as ShareStream’s integration with authentication services, and single sign-on technologies.
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ShareStream To Co-host Webinar on Best Practices for Rich Media in Higher Education with...
Monday, November 30, 2009
BusinessWire - ShareStream, a leading provider of rich media-management and delivery platforms for higher education, announced this week that it will be co-hosting a Webinar with Sun Microsystems Inc. titled "Best Practices for Rich Media Initiatives in Higher Education with Georgetown University." The Webinar, which will be lead by Charles Leonhardt, Georgetown University's principle technologist will take place Monday, November 30th at 1 PM EST.
Through a discussion of ShareStream, a technology developed in collaboration with Georgetown University at its Sun Center of Excellence, Mr. Leonhardt will share his experiences with successfully implementing an institution-wide rich media platform that currently serves over 400 courses, delivering over 250,000 on-demand requests for content last semester.
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ShareStream Announces Interoperability with Sakai Open-Source Courseware Management System
04/06/2009 - GAITHERSBURG, Md.--(Business Wire)--
ShareStream, a leading provider of digital media management and delivery platforms for higher education, announced this week that its technology is interoperable with Sakai, the widely deployed open source Courseware Management System. ShareStream`s interoperability with Sakai, is currently installed at two institutions. Sakai serves as the primary Courseware Management System at over 160 educational institutions worldwide. Sakai interoperability furthers ShareStream`s mission of fully integrating its platform with the university network and higher education`s scholarly systems to ensure that multimedia content stored in ShareStream is accessible wherever online teaching and learning, and research occurs. This announcement follows ShareStream`s longstanding interoperability with commercial learning management systems, Blackboard and eCollege.
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ShareStream At Georgetown University Wins ''Best Rich Media Solution'' and Bronze...
05/29/2008 - GAITHERSBURG, Md.--(Business Wire)--
ShareStream's Rich Media Environment at Georgetown University has been recognized by the IMS Global Learning Consortium as the 2008 winner of the "Best Rich Media Solution" as well as a Bronze Award recipient at the annual IMS GLC Learning Impact Awards held recently in Austin, Texas.
"ShareStream's innovative platform at Georgetown was judged by our distinguished panel of judges according to eight criteria of impact, including improving access to learning, improving affordability of learning, and improving the quality of learning," stated Rob Abel, CEO of IMS GLC. "ShareStream's finish as the "Best Rich Media Solution" means that they are the best in show in this important emerging category."
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ShareStream Partners with Sun Microsystems to Provide Turnkey Digital Media Management and...
04/23/2007 - GAITHERSBURG, Md.
ShareStream, a leading provider of digital media asset-management platforms for the education and healthcare industries, announced in collaboration with Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq:SUNW) the creation of a turnkey Digital Media Management and Delivery solution for Higher Education and e-Distance Learning.
The ShareStream platform, developed in collaboration with the Sun Center of Excellence for Scholarly Information at Georgetown University, delivers audio and video via streaming downloads and podcasts and has the capability of housing, managing, and securing media at an institution-wide level. The platform automates the process of encoding content, and provides a lecture-capture solution with slide synchronization. It catalogues and archives content with the appropriate metadata, secures and controls access to content, and audits user accesses, bringing higher education an "end-to-end" solution for rich media management and delivery. The solution is optimized to run on the Solaris 10 (TM) Operating System (OS) on both the x64 and SPARC [R] server platforms.
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