Kaltura Video Platform
Video Platform for Higher Education

Kaltura's Open Source Online Video Platform enables institutions to add video and rich-media capabilities to web sites, Learning Management Systems, internal digital repositories, libraries, and online social networks. The platform allows colleges and universities the ability to explore a new, interactive educational channel with the familiar flexibility and cost-effectiveness of open source software. Kaltura’s solutions currently enhance online classes, lecture material, university web sites, marketing campaigns, and internal and external institution employee training programs at major universities. Kaltura's open source framework is built to support third party technologies and services, allowing higher education institutions to customize their solution to meet their individual institution’s needs.
Unicon is a member of Kaltura's Partner Program, allowing Unicon to deliver the innovative Kaltura Open Source Online Video Platform and integration services to enhance learning and research in higher education institutions.
The Advent of Video in Sakai
In partnership with Kaltura, Unicon has developed a Kaltura Video Platform extension for Sakai, the Sakai Video Tool. This new LMS extension allows teachers to easily add video content to course pages, maintain a personal content repository, create a synchronized video-slide presentation, and interact with their students using media. Students can also create a personal media gallery, submit video assignments, and edit content online.
The new extension for Sakai made its debut at the Kaltura webinar, "Enhancing Your LMS and EDU Programs with Online Video from Kaltura." Aaron Zeckoski, Software Engineer at Unicon, presented the extension for the first time to the higher education community. Click here to view the webinar recording!
To learn more about Kaltura in education, click here.
What is Kaltura?
Kaltura provides the world's first Open Source Online Video Platform. Over 52,000 web publishers, service providers, and developers use Kaltura’s flexible platform to enhance their websites, web-services, and web-platforms with advanced customized video, photo and audio functionalities, including publishing, management, syndication, monetization and analysis, as well as content uploading and remixing. The free community-supported self-hosted software and source-code is available to download at www.kaltura.org. A commercial version of the software can be obtained at www.kaltura.com along with Kaltura services such as streaming, hosting, transcoding, analytics, ad serving, support and maintenance packages, and professional development. Founded in 2006, New York-based Kaltura is also a founding member of the ‘Open Video Alliance’ (www.openvideoalliance.org), a coalition of organizations dedicated to fostering open standards for online video.
Documentation On-Demand
Kaltura Video Tool for Sakai
Kaltura Platform Overview
Kaltura for Education (Product Guide)
Kaltura Customers
Why Clients Choose Kaltura
Unicon Services for Kaltura
Kaltura’s platform is fully integrated with popular Learning Management Systems, and Unicon has developed a Kaltura integration for Sakai. The platform is available in an affordable Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution, or through a self-hosted, on-premise installation. Unicon is a licensed reseller of the Kaltura solution, and will provide services to integrate Kaltura into the institutional architecture.
Latest Kaltura News
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Advantages of Unicon
Leverage Unicon's experience with open source to reduce risk and ensure success. Our strengths include:
The Power of Open Source
While the most prominent appeal of open source is that it is a low cost alternative to proprietary software, there are many other advantages to adopting open source technologies:
- Avoids vendor lock-in
- Easy to customize
- Promotes collaboration and innovation among peers
- Achieves economies of scale with community-based sharing and contribution
- Supports project, team, and code transparency
- Allows wide range of uses with open licensing

