MediaCore
Educational Technology | |
Founded | 2011 |
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Founder | Stuart Bowness, Damien Tanner |
Headquarters | , |
Services | Video Platform For Education |
Website | mediacore.com |
MediaCore was an educational technology company that was founded in June 2011 in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada by Stuart Bowness and Damien Tanner. It aims to help educators capture, manage and share educational content to students, faculty and staff through its cloud hosted media platform.[1][2] It was acquired by Workday, Inc. in 2015.
Features
MediaCore provides higher education institutions with a cloud hosted platform to share media with students, staff and faculty across the internet. It integrates with learning software like
MediaCore supports automatic closed captioning from both 3Play Media and Cielo24.[4]
Clients
MediaCore's clients include Indiana University, Columbia University, and the University of London.[5]
Reception
Discontinuation of platform
On October 5, 2015, Mediacore users received email informing them that Workday would be discontinuing the Mediacore video platform as of January 31, 2016.[8]
See also
- Educational Technology
- Flipped Classroom
- Instructure
References
- Techcrunch
- ^ B.C. Tech Ventures Awarded $235,000 in Prizes in Annual Business Competition; $100,000 Top Prize Goes to MediaCore Technologies Inc. Reuters
- Yahoo Finance
- ^ "Captioning Made Simple with MediaCore". Media Core. Retrieved 17 February 2016.
- ^ Victoria tech firm runs with good company Times Colonist
- Fast Company
- ^ MediaCore takes top prize in BCIC New Ventures competition, Vancouver Sun
- ^ "Silicon Valley giant buys local software firm MediaCore". 30 September 2015.