HarvestRoad HiveŽ is regarded as one of the world's leading applications to support the management of learning resources and reusable learning objects for very large and functionally diverse virtual communities of practice.
HarvestRoad HiveŽ is the first LOR application to be certified as IMS Conformant and was selected as the stand alone Learning Object Repository by the MiCTA/ATAlliance purchasing consortium representing 47 US-States.
The distinct independent Learning Object Repository (LOR) features of HarvestRoad HiveŽ include:
Powerful collaboration capability through its flexible permission and workflow layers
Extensible metadata functionality enabling granular object storage and rapid discovery by users
Versioning, controlled editing, timed visibility, and archiving of objects
Digital management of copyright and associated usage and permissions
Can operate with, or independent to, any standards-based learning delivery system
Accepts any form of digital objects including new media
Very flexible reporting capability
The ability to rapidly assemble and disassemble content for repurposing
Portability to new mobile devises such as PDAs and iPod
Very high levels of scalability
Single sign-on authentication capability
The ability to manage discrete communities of practice through the creation of Hive "instances"
The ability to "federate" searches across instances and other non-Hive repositories
Integration into open source LMSs including Moodle and Sakai
