Discovery Education Partners With CDW-G To Provide School Site-Based Unitedstreaming Video Servers
New Delivery Options Give Schools Greater Flexibility for Using Video to Enhance Learning
SILVER SPRING, MD - Discovery Education and CDW-G today announced a new partnership to offer customized video servers to school districts across the country. Providing added flexibility, service, and value, these new video server options expand upon Discovery Education's existing local hosting option for the award winning unitedstreaming video-on-demand service.
"CDW-G has built a strong reputation of delivering quality product offerings tailored to fit the unique needs of K-12 schools," said Steve Sidel, executive vice president, Discovery Education. "Working with CDW-G will strengthen our already successful local hosting strategy and help provide schools with the most reliable educational video networking options at the best value available."
Local hosting allows schools/school districts to access unitedstreaming content and features via server(s) installed on site. Video and other content is streamed or downloaded from the local network, decreasing the load on their Internet connection. Server management software ensures automatic, seamless updates of the locally hosted content during off-peak hours, and schools/school districts also have the option to add their own content, making it searchable and available only to users on their network.
"Discovery Education shares our commitment to providing teachers with quality products and exceptional service and support so they can devote their time and energy where it's needed most -- educating our children," said David Hutchins, CDW-G director of education sales. "We are proud to partner with Discovery Education to deliver this highly innovative, standards-based video networking solution for schools across the country."
Helping teachers around the world harness the power of digital media to engage and excite students, unitedstreaming is changing the way video is used in the classroom. The only service of its kind proven to increase student achievement(1), it features more than 4,000 available full-length videos chaptered into over 40,000 content-specific video clips that can be streamed or downloaded directly into the classroom, either via the Internet or though locally hosted video servers. unitedstreaming gives educators the ability to enhance their lesson plans with high-quality content that is correlated to individual state education standards, and also includes teachers' guides, student activities, sample lesson plans, classroom integration ideas, and almost 20,000 digital images covering all K-12 subject areas -- all at no additional charge. A host of interactive features including a custom quiz creator, self-paced video tutorials, and training modules designed to help teachers learn how to easily incorporate unitedstreaming into their daily lessons are also included.
Discovery Education's online learning products are currently licensed to over 52,000 schools across the United States, benefiting over twenty million students and their teachers. Free 30-day trials are available at http://www.unitedstreaming.com.
SOURCE: Discovery Education