sakai strategy at upmc-paris 6presentation

Sakai strategy at UPMC-Paris 6

Yves EpelboinJean-François Lévêque

UPMC-Paris 6, Paris, France

Agenda

• UPMC vision• Sakai integration at UPMC• Practice• Next…

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A few data about UPMC• Heir of the Faculty of Sciences of “La Sorbonne”• 4 000 academic staff, 3 000 support staff• 30 000 students (20 000 in Sciences, 10 000 in Medicine)• A Research university:

• First French university in all international rankings

• The largest offer at Master and PhD levels in Sciences: 7 00 PhD/year (8% total French U.)

• 10 diploma at Bachelor level• 10 diploma at master level

with 60 specialties

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IT organization

CoStraSI

DSISG TICE

CoPil ENT Departments :AdministrationLibraryResearchTeaching…

Teaching at UPMC• Computer literate• Mostly interested in research, not in teaching:

• Few rewards for innovation in teaching• Carrier based on research

• Students not too proactive• Ask for conventional lectures• Ask for written documents• Not so much “digital native”

• Officially few students work part or full time

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The university nightmares• Multiple technologies

• Expertise of technical staff• Multiplicity of platforms

• Staffing• Confusion for teachers

• Multiplicity of tools• Confusion for teachers• Training• Support

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Standards!

The standards• Confluence:

• Technology:• Portal: uPortal• VLE: Sakai

• Users• Single password, single access• All services accessible through the portal• Sakai as a service in the portal

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The vision• One single point of entry both for staff and students• Three levels of environment:

• University vision • Teacher vision • Personal vision

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Portal

Learning Environment

My space

SAKAI INTEGRATION AT UPMC


Integration

Full hardware integration in ESUP/uPortal

IBM blade center SAN

ESUP/uPortal

SAKAI

• Same hardware architecture

• Database on the Same storage system

• Four blades in parallel for redundancy and load balancing

Sakai integration


Announcements

workspace

courses

Sakai integration (2)• A


Access to “full course”

Access to individual tools

• Courses appear automatically after opening

• Tools appear automatically when added

Criteria to open a course1. Just need for a storage space?

• If yes use www.edu.upmc.fr2. Need for public announcements?

• Use the website of your license/master…3. Need for a website?

• Use the CMS in relationship with your role in the institution

4. Need for collaboration tools?• Open a site in Sakai

5. Need for pedagogical tools?• Open a course in Sakai


Course management


Professor asks for course creation through hotline

Support creates course

Course available to professor through portal

Professor manages course

Professor adds teachers and students

Students find the course in the portal

uPortal

Course support• Full manual in French:

http://wiki.cpm.jussieu.fr/doku.php?id=libre:sakai:table• Hotline:

• Level 1: simple questions referring to manual• Level 2

• Course opening• Bugs• Support

• Level 3• Bugs, malfunctions…• Referring to the community


http://wiki.cpm.jussieu.fr/doku.php?id=libre:sakai:table





Storage and video


Sakai

iTunesU

ESUP/uPortalVideolibrary

www.edu.upmc.fr

PRACTICE


Practice : level 1• Resources

• Ask more than storage of documents• Control yourself their use/date of availability…• Problems when hiding

• Communications1. Mail/announcements… 2. Chat, forum: seldom used except for distance learning

• Pedagogical path: Melete• A fundamental tool but poorly integrated into Sakai• Need for a more sophisticated one


Practice: level 2• Tests and quizzes

• Use of various templates• Problems for final exams• A very appreciated tool

• Assignments• A very popular tool

• Drop box (sometimes instead of assignments!)

• Calendar


Practice: level 3• More sophisticated tests• Gradebook• Podcast: problem to control space for users• Wiki, blog?• Web pages…• ….


DemandsLimitations:

• Information available from university directory• Group constituency• External participants

• Performances in exchanges with university directory• WebDAV• Large classes

• Better translation into French: problems in internationalization

• More pleasant interface


Other usesContinuous Education:A Sakai course is not a course but a room.Common rooms for all students: 1. Library: resources2. Communication room: mail, chat…

Restricted rooms for each module:3. Melete4. Test & quizzes…


Use of Sakai


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projectscourses

2006: WebCT2007-2010: Sakai

More than 11 000 students500 teachers

Some data


NEXT…


2010 and next…• Translation improvements: internationalization• Replacements of old tools: Melete• Better use of calendar• New tools: EVO,Wims?

• A growing community at UPMC: 150 academic taught/year• A growing community in France and elsewhere in Europe


SAKAI 3• A more attractive interface• Sakai 3: a personal space urgently needed but use unknown


BUT

• Sakai 3 is useless if all former tools are not integrated

• In case Sakai 3 is not ready, Sakai 2.8 will be needed

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sakai strategy at upmc-paris 6presentation

Education

course support

course course available

course professor

course access

sakai strategy

course creation

students students

course management professor