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Using Sakai in Research at Rutgers University

Using Sakai in Research at Rutgers University. Gayle K. Stein, Ph.D. Associate Director for Instructional Technology Tom Grzelak Associate Director for Research Technology Office of Instructional and Research Technology (OIRT). What is Sakai?.

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Using Sakai in Research at Rutgers University

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  1. Using Sakai in Research at Rutgers University Gayle K. Stein, Ph.D. Associate Director for Instructional Technology Tom Grzelak Associate Director for Research Technology Office of Instructional and Research Technology (OIRT)

  2. What is Sakai? • A community and foundation—a group of people and resources supporting the code and each other, realizing large scale Open Source efficiencies • A collaboration and learning product with: • A set of tools which have been tested and released as a unit • An extensible framework for building collaboration to support a wide range of teaching and research

  3. Sakai 2.1.1 Tools Announcements Assignments Chat Room Threaded Discussion Drop Box Email Archive Gradebook Melete - Content Editor Message of the Day News/RSS Roster integration Resources Samigo - QTI Assessment Schedule Section Management Syllabus Web Content Wiki

  4. History The University of Michigan, Indiana University, MIT, Stanford, the uPortal Consortium, and the Open Knowledge Initiative (OKI) have joined forces to integrate and synchronize their considerable educational software into a pre-integrated collection of open source tools. To begin, the Sakai Project received a $2.4 million grant from the Mellon Foundation

  5. More Sakai project history • Each of the 4 core universities committed • 5+ developers/architects under Sakai Board project direction for 2 years • Public commitment to implement Sakai • Open/Open licensing—“Community Source” • Overall project levels • $4.4M in institutional staff (27 FTE) • $2.4M Mellon, $300K Hewlett • Additional investment through partners • The “Sakai Project” became the Sakai Foundation in January, 2006

  6. The Sakai Foundation The Foundation manages a small staff to: - coordinate evolution of the Sakai software - provide advanced developer support for members - conduct quality assurance work on Sakai releases - track contributor agreements and manage the Sakai IP - manage conferences and meetings for the Sakai Community

  7. Sakai Foundation members 105 and Growing

  8. How Sakai got to Rutgers • Version of WebCT used in NB/P and Camden at end of useful life • Wanted to see what other options were • Learned about Sakai in Campus Technology magazine – January, 2004 • Liked community source concept • Shortly after it was made publicly available in July, 2004, our CTO began to test it • We hired staff in December, 2004 • Put up demo copy of 1.0 during the summer • Launched Pilot with 2.0 in Fall, 2005

  9. The Pilot – Fall 2005 • 50 faculty members • 5,000 students, in classes ranging from 15 students to 1,200 students and across all disciplines • Results: • Easy to use • Still young but promising • Anyone affiliated with Rutgers can set up site

  10. The Pilot Spring semester begins Pilot begins Pilot ends

  11. Fall 2006 Architecture

  12. Sakai at Rutgers • Staff • Applications Developer • Systems Programmer/Administrator (1.25) • Instructional Designer • Other staff who are working with us • Campus-based instructional designer (2) • Web developer/campus-based instructional designer (0.25)

  13. Sakai in Research • Motivation • Open source, open license • Intuitive, easy to use • Cyberinfrastructure - Collaborative environment for internal/external - Front-end for tools/applications - Same environment as courses

  14. Research Demo Site • Created site to demonstrate tools • Joinable

  15. Additional general collaborationtools under development • Blog • Shared Display • Shared Whiteboard • Multipoint Audio • Multipoint Video • Open Source Portfolio • SakaiBrary (TwinPeaks) These are works-in-progress by members of the Sakai eResearch community. There are no dates for release.

  16. Web Services • Standard web technology that can facilitate communication of data into and out of Sakai • OIRT exploring to create “bridge” between existing tools and Sakai using web services • We are currently collecting information about tools that faculty have developed in their labs that they might want to integrate with Sakai using web services

  17. For more information • sakai.rutgers.edu • sakaiproject.org • Email: sakai@rutgers.edu • Gayle K. Stein, Ph.D. (gstein@rutgers.edu) • Tom Grzelak (grzelak@rutgers.edu) • oirt.rutgers.edu

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