Digital Content Management

K-12 Education Need:
In a world of stimulating video games, iPods and the Internet teachers are being challenged to find new ways to keep students' attention and motivate them to achieve more.  School's adoption of an ever increasing number of computers is further pushing them to look for solutions to meet students' demand for access to content, curriculum and learning resources. 

MediaCAST Solution: Digital Content Storage, Access and Management Platform
Digital content is great for enriching curriculum and engaging students, but the materials teachers and students need are not always readily available or easy to share.  Learning resources come in a wide variety of formats including video, audio, e-books, podcasts, Websites, PowerPoint files, Flash documents, images and even live streaming events.  MediaCAST is a digital content management system that is designed to handle all these digital formats and provide a turnkey system to meet school and district requirements.

• An easy-to-use platform for schools to upload and manage existing content, newly created content along with content purchased from publishers
• Correlate digital content to one or more sets of Education Standards  
• Software and hardware solution that can be installed locally or hosted in an ASP model
• Centralized system to manage licenses and distribute media for classroom education, distance learning and staff development 
• Deliver streaming video and audio over the existing district LAN/WAN and make media content available over the Internet for community and home requirements
• Works with any Web-browser on PCs and Macs, needs no special connections
• A metadata-driven interface to search, view and schedule both live and stored video, audio and a full range of digital content formats
• Automated tools for compliance with Fair Use and The TEACH Act (see Copyright Compliance)

Education Results:
Teachers easily access all media, learning resources, curriculum, standards, educational software, files and collaboration tools in one place. Students gain access to lessons, videos, software, work files, podcasts and class discussions—in school and from home. Instructional, curriculum and media staff have efficient tools to manage content, software licensing, copyright compliance, curriculum standardization and classroom effectiveness throughout the smallest school or the largest, most dispersed, districts. You’ll save thousands of dollars by converting to an IP-based, centralized system for digital media management.

 
          Tyler Independent School District, Tyler Texas