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An Instructors’ Guide to Sakai
Presenters: Dan Beeby and Jonah Bossewitch
Sakai is an open-source course management system and a likely candidate to power CourseWorks 2.0. Sakai is already in use at a number of institutions, and as the community strengthens, it could provide many attractive innovations for educators.
What Sakai is not:
Sakai: a brief history
+ Roots in OKI (from MIT)
+ Seed funded by Mellon+ Goal to have core schools running by ‘06
+ Four ‘core’ schools & SEPP
+ Now… Sakai Foundation
Sakai Today
+ Being used at: UM, IU, Foothill-De Anza+ Pilots at: 30+ schools (including CU)+ Releases:
+ 1.0 (10/04), 2.0 (6/05), 2.1 (12/05), 3.0 (6/06)+ Each release adds new/better tools
+ Future tools in new releases:discussion board, wiki, VITAL, etc.
+ More than just software
A Community Source Project: An Ecology
software
- base system- community
tools- local tools - software
- process-
communitycommunity
- developers- faculty & students
- administrator
s- support
process
- Sakai Foundation
- governance/board- discussion
groups
Common Goals of the community:
+ Educational Culture & Values
+ Similar challenges (in higher ed)
+ Transparency
+ The players - Sakai foundation, Sakai board, other CU groups
“C” is for…?+ ‘Course’ or ‘Content’
Management System (CMS)+ A Collection of tools+ Collaboration+ Communication+ asd
Rules+ Rules: ‘make’ a tool
+ Who creates, changes, approves, delivers?
+ How are materials received & used?
Essence of the engagement?
+ Comprehensive collection of student work over time = Portfolio?
+ Communication, structured or free form = Discussion? Chat?
+ Course administration/organization = Syllabus, calendar, announcements?
+ Collaboration, sharing work = groups? Wiki?
Tools can be “interpreted”
+ Looks same, functionally different:
vs.
+ e.g. Test vs. Survey+ a.k.a. eight different
ways to use the same tool
+ Looks different, functionally equivalent:
vs.
+ e.g. Assignments section vs. syllabus (to deliver assignments)
+ a.k.a eight ways to do the same thing
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Purposeful Choices:
+ The tool and rules affect how the tool will be used in class+ Autonomy group work+ Self-guided directed
Demo:
+ CW and Sakai sites side-by-side
Where is this going?
+ Constantly growing, improving
+ Broad community of adopters
+ Interesting new tools, tons of potential
+ CW aging (true? Stay tuned…)
+ Discovery, pilot, testing, adoption?
+ We’re here to help