Kaltura Chosen to Power Video for MIT TechTV & to Launch Cross Campus Media Suite(TM)
MIT Joins Hundreds of Leading Educational Institutions Using Kaltura’s Cross Campus Media Suite to Jump-Start Media in Higher Education
ANAHEIM, CA–(Marketwire – Oct 13, 2010) – EDUCAUSE 2010 Annual Conference — Kaltura (www.kaltura.com), developer of the initial open source online video platform, has not long ago been selected by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to energy video for the MIT TechTV site, the university’s video-sharing site for the MIT community.
“MIT TechTV proposed out as a small plan which grew at a extensive pace. When they satisfied they indispensable a arguable and feature-rich video height to yield administrators with an easy approach to conduct and tell videos, and viewers with an engaging, interactive observation believe they came to Kaltura,” pronounced Leah Belsky, Managing Director, Education at Kaltura. “Kaltura provides a stretchable solution, with good technology, and products dedicated to the preparation vertical.”
Kaltura’s open source video height is already in make make make make use of of of of by hundreds of tutorial institutions around the world, together with 9 of the tip fifteen schools in America. The height is integrated with each heading guidance government complement in the market.
Kaltura’s Cross Campus Media Suite includes a core height and a apartment of applications and services which have been tailored privately for the hurdles and make make make make use of of of of cases which universities and colleges face today, together with regulating video for training and learning, on condition which stretch education, powering libraries, facilitating research, ancillary recruitment, mending communications, and more.
Key Components of the Kaltura Cross Campus Media Suite:
Media Management Console — A mount alone video government complement which powers live and on-demand videos for libraries, stretch education, communications and marketing. Enables full management, edition and syndication of media to assorted campus websites, guidance environments, or iTunesU.
Learning Management Systems Extensions — Kaltura integrates in to all heading Learning Management Systems (LMSs), with pre-integrated extensions for BlackBoard, Moodle, Sakai, Desire2Learn, and SharePoint. Teachers and students can make make make make use of of of of their existent LMSs to simply upload videos or audio files, jot down from a webcam, confederate harangue constraint files, contention video assignments, and emanate personal media collections — all inside of an easy-to-use, discerning interface, and inside of the secure authorisation and single-sign-on horizon of any LMS.
Kaltura MediaSpace™ (a YouTube® for your campus) — A entirely customizable media end site only for an institution’s campus or community. It allows expertise and students to upload and share media in a secure and in isolation environment.
Content Management & Lecture Capture Systems Extensions — Kaltura includes out-of-the-box extensions for heading CMS platforms, together with WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, BuddyPress, ELGG and more. In addition, Kaltura can be integrated in to harangue constraint systems to supplement a calm government covering which allows for easy embedding or ingestion of media from the harangue constraint sourroundings to the LMS, MediaSpace, or alternative applications.
In further to the core products, Kaltura has a strong living room of modernized facilities and applications which can be combined to the height without delay from the Kaltura Exchange. Advanced preparation applications include:
Mobile Streaming tools, together with iPhone, iPad and Android capabilities
Section 508 Compliant Accessible Players
Video choice collection
Video-PowerPoint™ synchronization players
In-browser Online Video Editors
Transcription and Subtitling Tools
Live Streaming
Video Commenting and Annotations
Conference-in-a-Box interfaces for fast event coverage
“We have been really unapproachable to capacitate online video for MIT, one of the world’s excellent tutorial institutions,” pronounced Ron Yekutiel, Kaltura Chairman & CEO. “As the pioneers of open-source video we have been resolutely committed to proliferating believe and fostering preparation by approach of abounding media, opposite campuses and beyond. We have been anxious to see the extensive uptake by faculties and students which suggests which shortly each tutorial establishment would enlarge the texts with clips, adding a total brand new dimension for education.”
About Kaltura
Kaltura provides the world’s initial Open Source Online Video Platform. Over 75,000 web publishers, make use of providers, developers, and tutorial institutions make make make make use of of of of Kaltura’s stretchable height to raise their websites, web-services, and web-platforms with modernized customized video, print and audio functionalities, together with publishing, management, syndication, monetization and analysis, as good as calm uploading and remixing. The giveaway community-supported self/cloud-hosted program and source-code is accessible for download at www.kaltura.org. A blurb On-Prem chronicle of the program can be performed at www.kaltura.com along with Kaltura services such as streaming, hosting, transcoding, analytics, ad serving, await and upkeep packages, and veteran development. Founded in 2006, New York-based Kaltura is additionally a first part of of the ‘Open Video Alliance’ (www.openvideoalliance.org), a bloc of organizations dedicated to fostering open standards for online video. For some-more information: www.kaltura.com and www.kaltura.org.
