The Language Centre at University of Warwick, one of the UK’s leading universities, announced today that is has selected  Kaltura, the leading open source video platform (www.kaltura.com), to power video for teaching and learning. The Language Centre is deploying Kaltura’s full-featured video extension for Moodle, as well as its own video portal, based on Kaltura’s MediaSpace video portal application.

“Video is becoming a critical part of learning and teaching, it was clear to us that we need to take advantage of this new medium and leverage it in the university’s Language Centre programmes,” said Teresa MacKinnon, Senior tutor e-learning, Language Centre at University of Warwick. “Kaltura’s seamless integration with Moodle and its MediaSpace video portal allow us to offer our faculty and students with a myriad of new ways to communicate and collaborate.”

“University of Warwick’s Language Centre has done a great job of incorporating video into existing programmes and systems. We are proud to provide them with our video solution,” said Ron Yekutiel, Kaltura Chairman and CEO.    

About University of Warwick

The University of Warwick is one of the UK’s leading universities with an acknowledged reputation for excellence in research and teaching, for innovation, and for links with business and industry. Founded in 1965 with an initial intake of 450 undergraduates, Warwick now has in excess of 25,000 students and is ranked in the top 10 of all UK university league tables. Warwick is one of the top ten universities targeted by the Times Top 100 Graduate Employers. Warwick is renowned for excellence and innovation within research and in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise, was ranked seventh overall in the UK, with 65% of the University’s research rated as 3* (internationally excellent) or 4* (world leading). Warwick is a globally connected University with a mission to make  a real impact on global issues and deliver the best research and teaching experience for its staff and students. To meet that goal it has chosen to form close partnerships with a select group of research-heavy institutions that exist in many locations, do research in many locations, and which produce students who see themselves as global citizens.

About Kaltura

Kaltura provides the world’s first Open Source Online Video Platform, transforming the way people work, learn, and entertain using online video. The Kaltura platform engages hundreds of millions of viewers by providing media companies advanced video management, publishing, and monetization tools that increase their reach and monetization and simplify their video operations. Kaltura improves productivity and interaction among millions of employees by providing enterprises powerful online video tools for boosting internal knowledge sharing, training, and collaboration, and for more effective marketing. Kaltura offers next generation learning for millions of students and teachers by providing educational institutions disruptive online video solutions for improved teaching, learning, and increased engagement across campuses and beyond.  Kaltura was recently recognized in Forbes as ‘one of the six fastest growing tech companies’, in VentureBeat as a ‘Next Billion Dollar Enterprise Tech Company’, in Business-Insider as ‘one of top 5 startups revolutionizing education’ and ‘one of 5 greatest open-source technologies for 2012’, and in Mashable as ‘one of top 5 social enterprise technologies for business’. For more information: www.kaltura.com, to join Kaltura’s community visit: www.kaltura.org and www.html5video.org.