Portland State University pilots the Hive independent digital repository
Announcement posted by HarvestRoad 26 Feb 2004
HarvestRoad is very pleased to announce that Portland State University, the fastest growing institution in the state of Oregon, USA, has purchased HarvestRoad Hive for a 12 month trial phase within its distributed learning environments.
Hive will be deployed as a separate, independent digital repository for learning objects that will be delivered to the WebCT Campus Edition 4.1 virtual learning environment. Learning objects will be created in a variety of authoring tools, and then uploaded to Hive via structured workflows that are configured by the institutions distributed learning group. Each resource will be properly tagged with metadata to assist teachers and designers to locate suitable material for use in their online classes. Hive will maintain an audit trail of the content from the time of its creation, through its usage and deployment across multiple courses, as well as provide additional options for converting content from proprietary, large sized formats to pure web-ready format (eg, HTML), on the fly.
Maggie McVay Lynch, Manager of Distributed Education, said that HarvestRoad was identified as a strong prospect to solve the substantial issue surrounding most eLearning initiatives the need to manage information at a very granular level, and do that independently of the systems that create or deliver that content.
Dr. McVay Lynch explained: We are moving our online delivery development model from a course and module development mode to one of reusable learning objects at the smallest levels possible. The reason for using Hive is to be able to create a plethora of navigational possibilities based on the needs of the training. Hive offers the promise of this flexibility by enabling us to maintain the content in a secure, managed environment, separate from the systems that deliver the virtual classroom environment to the student. Content is stored in the repository as part of quality controlled processes and then selected as part of conscientious design decisions, and not simply dragged into the course management system folders.
Grame Barty, Executive Chairman and Founder of HarvestRoad, said We were fortunate to meet Maggie at the WebCT Users Conference in San Diego last year. When we explained our value proposition as a federated digital repository system, she immediately saw the possibilities and benefits that this would bring to her faculty. We look forward very much to working with Maggie and her team, together with our partner WebCT, to ensure the pilot progresses to full implementation.
HarvestRoad now boasts three customers in the US Higher Education market, in addition to its huge account at the Latin American Institute of Educational Communication (ILCE) in Mexico, and is now poised to push further into the North and South American regions, particularly on the back of its forthcoming Spanish localization of Hive and its preparation for translation to other locales in Latin America.
About Portland State University
Portland State University, a nationally acclaimed leader in community-based learning, is located along the tree-lined South Park Blocks of downtown Portland. The University's position in the heart of Oregon's economic and cultural center enables PSU students and faculty to apply scholarly theory to the real-world problems of business and community organizations. Portland State offers over 100 undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees, as well as graduate certificates and continuing education programs. PSU serves more students and confers more graduate degrees annually than any other Oregon university.
As part of the Oregon University System, Portland State University's vision is to enhance recognition of the value of higher education by continually strengthening the metropolitan environment and utilizing that strength for its own growth toward standards of excellence in accessible high quality research, teaching and outreach programs. As a microcosm of the global society, the metropolitan environment becomes a laboratory for Portland State in this vision. It is the vision of a university that will set the standard for institutions located in an urban setting.
About HarvestRoad
Established in 1996, HarvestRoad is a software company based in Perth, Western Australia. HarvestRoad is a leader in the development of content management applications for the education, defence and enterprise markets.
HarvestRoad Hive is a federated digital repository system. It manages any type digital object but is particularly adapted to the management of learning objects for eLearning. It integrates with learning management systems and adds powerful workflow, metadata, searching, content rendering and caching to solve information management problems for eLearning.
HarvestRoad has a fast growing customer base in Australia, Malaysia, Singapore, Netherlands, United Kingdom, Mexico and the United States of America. Our customers include Education Departments, Consortia of Universities, individual universities, community colleges, K-12 schools and a range of small to very large corporate organisations using Hive to support their eLearning and corporate training initiatives.
Hive will be deployed as a separate, independent digital repository for learning objects that will be delivered to the WebCT Campus Edition 4.1 virtual learning environment. Learning objects will be created in a variety of authoring tools, and then uploaded to Hive via structured workflows that are configured by the institutions distributed learning group. Each resource will be properly tagged with metadata to assist teachers and designers to locate suitable material for use in their online classes. Hive will maintain an audit trail of the content from the time of its creation, through its usage and deployment across multiple courses, as well as provide additional options for converting content from proprietary, large sized formats to pure web-ready format (eg, HTML), on the fly.
Maggie McVay Lynch, Manager of Distributed Education, said that HarvestRoad was identified as a strong prospect to solve the substantial issue surrounding most eLearning initiatives the need to manage information at a very granular level, and do that independently of the systems that create or deliver that content.
Dr. McVay Lynch explained: We are moving our online delivery development model from a course and module development mode to one of reusable learning objects at the smallest levels possible. The reason for using Hive is to be able to create a plethora of navigational possibilities based on the needs of the training. Hive offers the promise of this flexibility by enabling us to maintain the content in a secure, managed environment, separate from the systems that deliver the virtual classroom environment to the student. Content is stored in the repository as part of quality controlled processes and then selected as part of conscientious design decisions, and not simply dragged into the course management system folders.
Grame Barty, Executive Chairman and Founder of HarvestRoad, said We were fortunate to meet Maggie at the WebCT Users Conference in San Diego last year. When we explained our value proposition as a federated digital repository system, she immediately saw the possibilities and benefits that this would bring to her faculty. We look forward very much to working with Maggie and her team, together with our partner WebCT, to ensure the pilot progresses to full implementation.
HarvestRoad now boasts three customers in the US Higher Education market, in addition to its huge account at the Latin American Institute of Educational Communication (ILCE) in Mexico, and is now poised to push further into the North and South American regions, particularly on the back of its forthcoming Spanish localization of Hive and its preparation for translation to other locales in Latin America.
About Portland State University
Portland State University, a nationally acclaimed leader in community-based learning, is located along the tree-lined South Park Blocks of downtown Portland. The University's position in the heart of Oregon's economic and cultural center enables PSU students and faculty to apply scholarly theory to the real-world problems of business and community organizations. Portland State offers over 100 undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees, as well as graduate certificates and continuing education programs. PSU serves more students and confers more graduate degrees annually than any other Oregon university.
As part of the Oregon University System, Portland State University's vision is to enhance recognition of the value of higher education by continually strengthening the metropolitan environment and utilizing that strength for its own growth toward standards of excellence in accessible high quality research, teaching and outreach programs. As a microcosm of the global society, the metropolitan environment becomes a laboratory for Portland State in this vision. It is the vision of a university that will set the standard for institutions located in an urban setting.
About HarvestRoad
Established in 1996, HarvestRoad is a software company based in Perth, Western Australia. HarvestRoad is a leader in the development of content management applications for the education, defence and enterprise markets.
HarvestRoad Hive is a federated digital repository system. It manages any type digital object but is particularly adapted to the management of learning objects for eLearning. It integrates with learning management systems and adds powerful workflow, metadata, searching, content rendering and caching to solve information management problems for eLearning.
HarvestRoad has a fast growing customer base in Australia, Malaysia, Singapore, Netherlands, United Kingdom, Mexico and the United States of America. Our customers include Education Departments, Consortia of Universities, individual universities, community colleges, K-12 schools and a range of small to very large corporate organisations using Hive to support their eLearning and corporate training initiatives.