Kaltura

Kaltura is a storage and streaming server to house videos. (Similar to YouTube.)

At this point, it is up and running, however, you need to get the video to Greg Hatayama so he can upload to the site. After it is uploaded a URL is generated and then can be shared with the students.

There also is a way to embed the video into a PowerPoint, website or into a course directly if needed.

Currently, Regis has a starter contract with Kaltura to host up to 300MB a month.

(Eventually Kaltura will replace the Helix server.)

ITS has plans in the near future to see if they can get funding to host something called MediaSpace so that Regis University instructors and students can register and upload themselves. (very similar to YouTube). I guess they will know by May if they are able to get funding to expand the contract and obtain MediaSpace. When they upgrade our limit for storage and bandwidth will expand to 2TB.

One more interesting tidbit, Erich Declamp indicated that all three of our potential LMS candidates have plugin that works directly with Kaltura so we could have a ‘video dropbox’ right inside the course.

The following site provides more information about Kaltura and demos.

http://corp.kaltura.com/solutions/education_technology_video