[Using Sakai] Video Hosting Solutions

[John Johnston]

Hello Leah.

The University of Michigan began piloting Kaltura and the Sakai Media
Gallery Extension this term. The Sakai integration provides some nice
tools for uploading, organizing, and sharing media. It includes a
FCKEditor plugin that allows you to insert media into several sakai
tools including assignments, announcements, recourses, etc. Kaltura
has a very broad user base that includes top-tier corporations and
educational institutions, so its scalability has been well proven. The
company has been very responsive to our input and has made several
changes to the product based on our requirements. In regards to your
cost question, there are  many options ranging from running the
open-source locally to a fully hosted solution, so I can't give you a
ballpark figure.

In our experience most of the complicated issues around implementing
Video Content Management are ones of policy. The product itself is
relatively straight-forward to implement and use. Again, we are early
in our pilot, so I suspect we will have a more mature view of the
tool. I know there are other sakai institutions with a longer history
with the product, so perhaps they can provide a longer-view
perspective.

I would be happy to discuss this issue in more detail with you.

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> Hi everyone.
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> We're in the early stages of reviewing video solutions and wondered if
> anyone had any experience with Kaltura that they're willing to share?
> Would you recommend it?  We want to make uploading and sharing video files
> in course sites as easy and care free for faculty (and probably students)
> as we possibly can.  We've used solutions like YouTube, ScreenCast, Vimeo,
> etc. in the past but all have their own limitations.
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> We are specifically interested in:
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>    - The Sakai integration
>    - Product reliability/robustness
>    - Space/streaming limitations
>    - Cost
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> If you have other suggestions for video hosting (besides Kaltura), we
> welcome those as well.
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> Thanks very much for any information you can share.
> Leah
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> Leah Bergman, M.Ed.
> E-Learning Specialist
> University of Dayton
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John Johnston – Product Manager & Lead Business Systems Analyst
ITS Teaching & Learning, University of Michigan
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