[Using Sakai] Video Hosting Solutions

[Makoto Tsuchitani]

Hi Leah,

Stanford University is entering our third year of piloting Kaltura. We were (one of) the first schools to go with an On-Prem installation. Given we turned out to be an early adopter with regards to being an On-Prem .edu installation (Kaltura was not forthcoming about this fact), our experience was "much less smooth" than Michigan's experience.

One of the major short comings of the Kaltura system has been the lack of asset management functionality available in Sakai via the Sakai Kaltura Extension. For example, there is no way to replicate collections of assets organized by a faculty member from one course site to the next. One of our faculty piloting Kaltura has 280 mp3 he organized in collections for his Fall course. When he teaches the course again in the Spring, he would have to manually organize the 280 files into collections/folders again -- which is obviously not something he would want to do. The latest release of Kaltura, called Falcon, is suppose address some of these type of shortcomings. However, while it has been released for SAS customers, the On-Prem release has yet to be released. The latest news we received is a late November release date for On-Prem Falcon.

In any case, if you are interested, I'd also be happy to share further details with you.

Regards,
Makoto


On Oct 18, 2012, at 6:06 AM, John Johnston <johnpj at umich.edu> wrote:

> 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.
> 
> On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 3:00 PM,
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>> Hi everyone.
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> We are specifically interested in:
>> 
>>   - The Sakai integration
>>   - Product reliability/robustness
>>   - Space/streaming limitations
>>   - Cost
>> 
>> 
>> If you have other suggestions for video hosting (besides Kaltura), we
>> welcome those as well.
>> 
>> 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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