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An Instructors’ Guide to Sakai Presenters: Dan Beeby and Jonah Bossewitch

This guide provides an overview of Sakai, an open-source course management system with innovative tools for educators. Learn how Sakai can enhance communication, collaboration, and content management in your courses.

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An Instructors’ Guide to Sakai Presenters: Dan Beeby and Jonah Bossewitch

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  1. 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.

  2. What Sakai is not:

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. software • base system • community tools • local tools • software • process • community process • Sakai Foundation • governance/board • discussion groups A Community Source Project: An Ecology community • developers • faculty & students • administrators • support

  6. Common Goals of the community: • Educational Culture & Values • Similar challenges (in higher ed) • Transparency • The players - Sakai foundation, Sakai board, other CU groups

  7. “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?

  8. 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?

  9. 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 Tools can be “interpreted”

  10. Purposeful Choices: • The tool and rules affect how the tool will be used in class • Autonomy  group work • Self-guided  directed

  11. Demo: • CW and Sakai sites side-by-side

  12. 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

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