Course Container Provides a Central Location to Host, License and Store Course Materials
Troy Gorostiza, Co-Founder of Course Container
In the fast moving eLearning and distance education environment of today major businesses and large institutions of higher education may have to rely on independent course creators to provide the necessary instructional experiences for their students or license courses that are produced by another large business or university system. Whether a course creator works in a major business, a large institution of higher education or at home as a freelancer, the question always is how to manage the course content, provide access to students who are licensed to take the course, and monitor & track appropriate usage of a course. Troy Gorostiza who has well over two decades of experience in supporting professionals in eLearning and distance education has recently introduced CourseContainer (CC) to resolve these issues. CC is a new system that simplifies managing course contents for course creators and providers, as well as individuals and large-scale users.
CC provides course creators the ability to have a central location to host, license and store their content.
CC is it directed to:
- Content creators who have materials that a company or an institution of higher education would like to use on their LMS.
- Businesses and institutions of higher education who have content libraries that they resell, or make available to other businesses and institutions of higher education on a regular basis.
In both instances CC allows the content creator the ability to provide access of their courseware to their client without handing over their IP / course content, while providing the ability to set licensing requirements and track usage. Students would access a course that is served up by CC in the same manner as how they access other courses from an LMS or other types of training management platforms.
CC also is a content licensing platform for businesses and institutions of higher education that use an LMS.
Let’s say a course creator/provider has 10 online courses that s/he wants to provide to a university that needs those courses and wants to make them available to its students on Blackboard, Canvas or D2L. The course creator and the university work out a business arrangement to make the course available to thousands of students at the university providing unprecedented access and availability to thousands of students.
The course creator would upload the courses into CC, set the licensing terms, and then send the university the packages that CC creates. These packages would then go into the university’s LMS and when students access the course(s) from the LMS they are actually coming from CC but it is transparent to the user.
Course creators never hand over their IP to the university and so they do not need to worry about intellectual property theft, or unauthorized reuse and repurpose of their course content on another system somewhere else. With CC course creators have the ability to always monitor who is accessing the content, how often the course is accessed, and on which system the content is being accessed.
Image 1- Course Container Administration Interface (Click on the Image to Enlarge)
In addition CC offers
- Reliable Courseware Hosting
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- Secure, scalable cloud hosting ensures your content is reliably delivered no matter where your learner is. Relay and Dispatch packages supported also supported.
- Flexible Licensing Options
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- Protect your content by applying the rules. Restrict individual content or entire libraries, number of accesses and duration of use to individuals and/or organizations.
- Version Control & Updates
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- Control your content with seamless updating. When a new version of your content is available, you can guarantee the learners will receive it. We make it simple for you to make necessary updates to your content, without interrupting students already in process.
- Superior Industry Knowledge & Support
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- Make your content available to any LMS. Whether deploying content to a single LMS or thousands of students across multiple platforms, Course Container provides the flexibility to meet your unique requirements.
- Reporting & Analytics
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- Receive detailed metrics on your content’s activity. Gain visibility into who has accessed your content, course progress and more. Analyze behavior and optimize access by modifying content, updating licenses and more. Want student completion data, we’ve got it for you!
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Troy Gorostiza is a learning solutions expert with 20+ years of hands-on and management experience across multiple industries specializing in from-end analysis, solution consulting, system selection & management, platform architecture and custom courseware development for ILT, eLearning performance support, virtual reality and mobile. He has significant experience architecting extended enterprise and customer learning solutions enabling customers to realize new revenue streams and extend their digital strategy, in addition, he is adept in recognizing industry trends and counseling clients on the strategic direction for their learning, performance and talent initiatives.
