Currently, academic computing is highly fragmented:

• The teams that manage library systems have very little interaction with the teams that run learning management systems for course-based learning.
• Administrative divide between the two groups the result of technological divide; no technology implemented that sits between the library and eLearning.
• Consequently, valuable content in 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 academic computing to achieve significantly greater value from its content by seamlessly bringing rich media stored in the library into the teaching and learning domain to enrich online course-based learning.