Wolf Creek Public Schools is the first Canadian school division to take advantage of MediaCore, a groundbreaking cloud-based video education platform.
There are a growing number of cloud-based education services but it is difficult for Canadian schools to access them. Public schools in Canada are required to ensure that all of their user data is hosted securely within the country. However, many of the new cloud-based offerings store user-data in the US.
“We are increasingly identifying online services that could provide valuable support around teaching and learning,” explained Mark McWhinnie, an assistant superintendent at Wolf Creek Public Schools.
“During this process we have found that when we speak to various companies, they are often unable to provide a hosted service within Canada to meet our obligations around privacy legislation. This can often be a real barrier to innovation and development and it’s a common issue faced by school boards across the country.”
MediaCore’s K-12 service is cloud-based so it was a priority to address this issue and ensure Canadian schools could access the service.
“As a Canadian company it was really important to us that we were able to offer a comprehensive service to schools in Canada,” Stuart Bowness, CEO of MediaCore. “Canadian Cloud means schools across the country can now use MediaCore to manage, organise and share videos securely.”
Wolf Creek Public Schools has already uploaded more than 400 videos. “Stakeholders in Wolf Creek Public Schools value the on-going educational partnership that we have with MediaCore,”said McWhinnie. “Their receptive and collaborative approach allows us to work together on providing a large number of rich curriculum content resources for our students, staff and parents.”
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