Perth-based dot.com boom survivor HarvestRoad today announced that Charles Darwin University has chosen its Hive educational software package to deliver courseware to its student community.
Perth-based dot.com boom survivor HarvestRoad today announced that Charles Darwin University has chosen its Hive educational software package to deliver courseware to its student community.
HarvestRoad said its Hive software is a federated digital repository system which is both totally independent of, but interoperable with, the systems that create and deliver content.
Charles Darwin University is Australia's most diverse university. With nine campuses and education centres located across the Northern Territory, the University offers a wide range of courses, from VET (vocational education & training) through to undergraduate and postgraduate to its 19,000 multi-cultural student community.
"As a multi-sector and multi-cultural education provider, the university provides unique pathways to students from school-based vocational training through to advanced research degrees. We sought a multi-purpose repository that would not only facilitate true sharing and re-use of content but could also be used across the university in a variety of disciplines," said Roy Pidgeon, director information technology and management support, Charles Darwin University.
"We were impressed with the flexibility and independence of HarvestRoad Hive® to support the diverse and geographically dispersed nature of our teaching and learning initiatives."
Charles Darwin University is nationally and internationally recognised as a centre of excellence in tropical and desert knowledge as well as Indigenous and cross cultural knowledge, it also contributes to around 25% of all research and development conducted within the Territory in connection with the delivery of education, health and community services and sustainable development.
Each school within the University has a clear purpose and focus for their respective core areas of activity, the ability to store, share and re-use information whilst protecting the investment in its content is a critical requirement for the institution.
The distinct features of HarvestRoad Hive include its independence, flexible permission and workflow layers, extensible meta-data functionality, digital management of copyright and the ability to rapidly assemble and disassemble content all through the implementation of essential industry standards.
Commenting on Charles Darwin University's choice, Grame Barty, Founder and Managing Director, HarvestRoad said, "We are delighted to be chosen by Charles Darwin University, another unique higher education institution, and through the flexible digital object repository features of HarvestRoad Hive, support the University's business drivers."
HarvestRoad has recently announced contracts won from the University of Western Australia and Devry Inc., one of the largest higher education companies in North America.
About HarvestRoad
HarvestRoad is a software development company based in Perth, Western Australia, with branch offices in Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra, Mexico City, Atlanta, London and Paris and global partners in Europe, UK, USA, Latin America, and Asia. Established in 1996 and publicly listed on the Australian Stock Exchange [ASX: HRD] in September 1999, HarvestRoad has developed software for the eLearning and eTraining markets in education, government, defense, and enterprise.
About HarvestRoad Hive
HarvestRoad Hive is a federated digital repository system. Totally independent of, but interoperable with, the systems that create and deliver content such as authoring tools and Learning Management Systems, HarvestRoad Hive® allows the reuse and sharing of learning objects across single, multiple or geographically dispersed locations.
HarvestRoad Hive can be used to store any type of digital file but it is particularly suited to the requirements of online or flexible learning where content needs to be stored, accessed, assembled, disassembled, shared and reused in multiple contexts and environments and scale to millions of users.
