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Inside the Evolving Sakai Inside the Evolving Sakai CCollaborative ollaborative LLearning earning
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Josh BaronDirector, Academic Technology and eLearning
Marist College
Sakai Foundation Board of Directors
“When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for everyone telling you you're nuts.”
- Larry Ellison, Founder and CEO, Oracle
How many areHow many arerunning Sakai today?running Sakai today?
How many are How many are piloting or evaluating piloting or evaluating
Sakai?Sakai?
How many came because How many came because you thought there would you thought there would
beberice wine and sushi? rice wine and sushi?
Presentation OverviewPresentation OverviewWhat is Sakai? – A view from
10,000 feetThe CLE SoftwareThe CommunityThe FoundationWhy Sakai? – Driving InnovationSakai: Myth vs. RealityNew Initiatives and DirectionsQ&A (Please ask as we go…)
What is What is Sakai?Sakai?
Remind me at the end and I’ll tell you where the name comes from
What is What is Sakai?Sakai?
My Workspace
CoursesPortfolios
Projects
The CLE SoftwareThe CLE Software
SAKAI SAKAI DEMONSTRATIONDEMONSTRATION
Be Kind, Don’t Hog the Wi-Fi!
CLOSE TO 50 CLOSE TO 50 ADDITIONAL ADDITIONAL
“CONTRIB” TOOLS“CONTRIB” TOOLS
Synchronous conferencingSynchronous conferencing
Image Gallery ToolImage Gallery Tool
SOLO – Offline SakaiSOLO – Offline Sakai
Sakaibrary – Library Sakaibrary – Library integrationintegration
Timeline ToolTimeline Tool
What is What is Sakai?Sakai?
The Sakai CommunityThe Sakai CommunityOver 160 Production and140 Pilot Instances on 7 continents
Sakai Commercial AffiliatesSakai Commercial Affiliates
An Enterprise Solution (or An Enterprise Solution (or not)not)
Number of Users Institutions
130,000+ Indiana, UNISA
60,000+ Michigan
11,000 - 50,000 UC Berkeley, Rutgers, Yale, Virginia Tech, RINET, Cape Town, Etudes Consortium, New England (AU), Valencia, Windsor,
1,000 - 10,000 Marist College, Cambridge University, Cerritos, Charles Sturt, Fernando Pessoa, Lleida, Mount Holyoke, Northwestern, Rice, Roskilde, Saginaw Valley, UC Merced, Whitman, Arteveldehogeschool, eTech Ohio, AMDG Inc., OHSU, Limerick, Ross Institute
Increasing Number of Increasing Number of CommittersCommitters
April 2008 (n=225)
December 2006 (n=116)
94% increase in 16 months
What is What is Sakai?Sakai?
The FoundationThe Foundation“Community source builds upon the open source production and
development models but introduces more formal commitments and coordination to the work and strategic directions.” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_source)
Protects open-source licenseManages Sakai Partners Program
◦100+ membersCoordination and facilitation
◦Staff coordinate work within the community
◦Host yearly conference and regular meetings
◦External communication
Why Sakai? – Driving Why Sakai? – Driving InnovationInnovation“Built by educators, for educators”
◦Bottom line is not a profit-margin “Crowd-sourcing”– The human collective
◦5 Foundation staff◦225 developers & 500 active contributors◦10,000+ instructors & 1,000,000+ students◦Communities of practice – powerful PD opts!
Decoupling “code” from the “service”Open standards support interoperability
◦IMS Course Cartridge, QTI
Sakai: Myth vs. RealitySakai: Myth vs. RealitySakai is only for large research institutionYou need lots of developers to maintain SakaiIt’s free, right?
◦ No license costs but it isn’t “free”◦ ROI investing in human capital vs. licensing fees
A bunch of volunteer can’t build anything useful!◦ What about Linux? Apache? Your local FD?◦ Robust software engineering process followed
Using OSS without commercial support is crazy!
What myths have you heard?What myths have you heard?
Institutional Resource Institutional Resource SnapshotSnapshot
New Initiatives & New Initiatives & DirectionsDirectionsTeaching and Learning Group
◦Teaching with Sakai Innovation Award◦OpenEdPractices.org
Yearly international conference◦Sakai 2009 – Possibly Boston
Regional meetings and hackathons◦Cambridge (July 08)◦Berkley & Virginia Tech (Fall 08)
K-12 Sakai Conference (RINET)User Experience Initiative
What might the future What might the future look like?look like?
Where to learn more…Where to learn more…Home: http://www.sakaiproject.orgIssues: http://bugs.sakaiproject.orgCollab: http://collab.sakaiproject.orgWiki:
http://bugs.sakaiproject.org/confluenceMichael Korcuska, Executive Director,
[email protected] Whyte, Community Liaison,
Inside the Evolving Sakai Inside the Evolving Sakai CCollaborative ollaborative LLearning earning
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Josh BaronDirector, Academic Technology and
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