Video consumption has been exploding at Brown University since last fall.
With over 8,000 hours of video produced each year, Brown needed a solution to consolidate all of its video content on campus.
What is the Internet2 Net+ program?
The Internet2 Net+ program comes from a higher education community consortium of universities in response to the last turn of the internet. It goals focus on:
• Realizing the power of collaborative scale to create capabilities no single institution could produce on its own
• Creating advanced technology capabilities to extend scholarship and research
• Enabling new generations of applicants and supporting infrastructure and technologies
• Achieving durable control over the community’s operating environment.
• Transferring technology and experience to drive innovation and advance the global internet
Internet2 Net+ program also provides tailored service portfolios to:
• Enhance academic research user mobility in the Cloud
• Accelerate trusted Cloud application deployment for schools
• Ensure standards-based Cloud security, accessibility, reliability and performance with school scalability
As a result, the university turned to MediaCore, the first online video platform to join the Internet2 Net+ program.
While researching a suitable video platform for the school, Gillian Bell says she reached out to Brown’s video managers to see what solution they thought would support Brown’s extensive video collection.
“We wanted something easy to use, something that would integrate with the LMS platforms people were already using,” says Bell, the MediaCore project lead at Brown. “We were also happy with the pricing and we liked that [MediaCore] had a strong commitment to higher ed processes. Mediacore was the best fit for us based on its relationship with other universities.”
Bell says one of the best features MediaCore offered Brown was its ability to integrate with the other video services instructors used, especially Canvas, a learning management system Brown uses for 80 percent of its classes.
“We like using it because faculty can upload and reuse these videos semester after semester, modify them and re-upload them,” she says. “It’s a one-stop-shopping approach.”
Bell also says instructors are able to determine who has access to the content stored on MediaCore, and what level of access they have. She says instructors can choose to make that content public or private as well.
“[They can] keep videos private, share them with viewers who are only allowed to comment, or they can make those videos public to world,” Bell says. “Content can sit in MediaCore; there are no problems with size limits. If someone is an admin, they can see everything.”
Bell says faculty members’ response to MediaCore has been great, and that the school is even using the platform to reach out to alumni and the outside community.
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