Online education has exploded over the past few years, with public, non-profit, and for-profit K-20 institutions, educational tablet apps, and corporate and public sector training all moving from early adoption to mission critical state. Reliable video is increasingly essential to the success of these projects. Many such projects are delivered using a Learning Management System such as Moodle, an open source PHP based LMS used by over 57 million learners. The Kaltura-Moodle integration enables educational content developers to take advantage of Kaltura's advanced video management and delivery options to enable reliable high quality content to be delivered as an integrated component of the educational conent, to various OS's and devices in use, including PC/Mac, Tablets, and Smartphones.
Michael Penney has led a number of educational content development and delivery projects on various LMS's and CMS's and he briefly discusses the advantages of having Kaltura integrated into your content delivery application, and the increasing importance of reliable video content in the expanding online education market.
Akin Delamarre, Remote-Learner Lead Developer for the Kaltura Integration, discusses technical aspects of building the integration, including integrating Kaltura with Read-Write web applications, the technologies used to create the plug-in, the type of LMS functions that Kaltura's API can utilize, benefits and challenges of utilizing Yahoo's YUI3, and other standards and tool used for the integration.
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