-- Video for teaching and learning - institutions engage students with
high quality video, inside and outside of the classroom. Kaltura provides
pre-integrated solutions that work seamlessly with leading Learning
Management Platforms (e.g. Blackboard, Moodle, and Sakai), as well as with
lecture capture and presentation systems.
-- Video for distance education -- institutions enable remote online
classes and courses, as well as new full blown online degrees for
international students.
-- Video for social activities -- clubs, student groups, research
centers, faculty websites, and individual students and faculty leverage
Kaltura's out-of-the-box video extensions (e.g. for WordPress, MediaWiki,
Drupal, ELGG) to support and augment students' and professors' online
social activities.
-- Video for collaboration and interaction -- institutions enable groups
to interact with one another by way of importing and uploading user-
generated clips, commenting and reviewing, and collaborating with other
students and faculty in creating, remixing, and annotating content.
-- Rich-media for libraries -- institutions make their multimedia archive
accessible by the community, which is empowered to search, view, share,
index and annotate content, and even contribute new content to the archive.
-- Video for marketing -- institutions produce marketing campaigns that
keep prospective students and alumni informed, engaged, and involved.
-- Advanced rich-media editing tools -- institutions and students utilize
Kaltura's online editors to insert annotations and comments, remix video
clips, and to synchronize a viewing experience for video clips coupled with
slides of PowerPoint presentations.
-- Video for events and conferences -- institutions use Kaltura's
tailored application to upload, organize, publish, share, and archive rich-
media content from events and conferences.
-- Video for alumni -- institutions enhance the engagement levels of
alumni through providing them audio-visual information and promotions for
continuing education programs.
-- Video for sports -- institutions and students upload, display, share,
and syndicate clips relating to the institution's sports teams and events.
-- Emergency preparedness & flu packages -- institutions mitigate risk
and improve their preparedness by enabling students and faculty to continue
their education at a distance in cases of quarantine and sickness.
Kaltura also provides with its platform optional ancillary services,
including custom integration and development services, content streaming
and hosting, transcoding, and analytics. Institutions that utilize
Kaltura's platform and services enjoy a one-stop-shop for all of their
rich-media needs.
"Kaltura's hosting services paired with their excellent support team helped
to make our recent online course an absolute success," said Marni Baker
Stein, Director of Program Development, The College of Liberal and
Professional Studies, University of Pennsylvania. "We were able to
effectively stream HD quality video to 576 students from 43 countries each
week. Kaltura's partnership in this ambitious venture was invaluable."
David Germano, Director of SHANTI at University of Virginia: "Kaltura is a
key component of SHANTI's Community Tools initiative. We are creating an
ecology of high-impact, low-threshold web applications for students and
faculty to synergize teaching, learning, research, and service. A key part
of this ecology is audio and video asset management, and Kaltura's ability
to seamlessly integrate with a variety of applications, from WordPress to
Sakai, speeds our creation of this ecology. With it, SHANTI is unleashing
the creative energies of faculty, staff and students in myriad exciting new
ways. Kaltura is catalyzing and empowering our community!"
"2tor recently partnered with the University of Southern California's
prestigious Rossier School of Education, using Kaltura's advanced video
capabilities to launch the MAT@USC, an online Master of Arts in Teaching
program," said James Kenigsberg of 2tor, Inc. "Together with Kaltura, we
developed a custom-tailored video experience for the program's faculty and
students."
"Several of our 300 university customers have added Kaltura to their Moodle
deployments" said Jason Cole, COO of Remote-Learner. "Working with Kaltura,
we can now move the e-learning experience beyond words on the page and
include real-life performances. Kaltura's easy to use, low cost media
platform will have significant impact on teacher training, performing arts
education, language learning, physical education and distance learning."
Kaltura Inspire Webinar: Expanding Education with Online Video
On October 7, 2009 at 2:30pm ET Kaltura will be conducting a webinar where
we will discuss the various ways that online video can broaden educational
activities across the institution.
Registration: http://www.kaltura.org/kaltura-inspire-webinar
Speakers and topics will include:
-- Ron Yekutiel, Kaltura CEO, will say a few words of introduction
-- Leah Belsky, Kaltura Director of Strategic Accounts, will present an
overview of Kaltura's video solutions for educational institutions
-- David Germano, Director of SHANTI at University of Virginia, will
present an array of forward-looking programs that are currently being
implemented by the school using Kaltura's platform
-- Chris Millet, Manager of Advanced Learning Projects, Education
Technology Services (ETS), The Pennsylvania State University -- will
present how Penn State is using Kaltura's video solutions to enhance its
learning experience
-- Jason Cole, Chief Operating Officer, Remote-learner.net -- will
present Remote Learner's partnership with Kaltura and its enhanced Moodle
services with advanced rich-media capabilities
Learn more about Kaltura's video solutions for education at
http://corp.kaltura.com/solutions/education.
About Kaltura
Kaltura provides the world's first Open Source Online Video Platform. With
more than 37,000 active publishers, Kaltura's flexible framework empowers
educational institutions and enterprises to add advanced interactive video
functionality into websites, libraries, learning management systems, and
lecture delivery tools. Founded in 2006, Kaltura's open source code is
available as a free Software Development Kit and as downloadable packages
for leading platforms -- such as Moodle, Drupal, WordPress and MediaWiki.
Kaltura also provides supplementary paid services including maintenance,
support, integration, professional development, streaming and hosting, ad
serving, content syndication, and aggregation of related third party
services. Since its public launch, New York-based Kaltura has won numerous
awards, such as Microsoft and TheMarker's 'Most Promising Start-up in
Israel' for 2009, TechCrunch40 People's Choice award, Mashable's 'Open Web'
award, AlwaysOn's top 250 global company and top 100 media company awards,
and TV Week's 5 Video Startups to Watch in 2009. For more information,
visit www.kaltura.com. Visit Kaltura's open source community at
www.kaltura.org.
Contact Information: Lisa Bennett Kaltura (212) 981-3965 lisa.bennett@kaltura.com