Book Image

Sakai CLE Courseware Management: The Official Guide

Book Image

Sakai CLE Courseware Management: The Official Guide

Overview of this book

Sakai is a Collaboration and Learning environment that provides the means to manage users, courses, instructors, and facilities, as well as a spectrum of tools including assessment, grading, and messaging. Sakai is loaded with many handy features and tools, which make it uniquely the Learning system of the present as well as the future.This book is the officially endorsed Sakai guide and is an update to the previous book, Sakai Courseware Management: The Official Guide. From setting up and running Sakai for the first time to creatively using its tools and features, this book delivers everything you need to know.Written by Alan Berg, a Sakai fellow and former Quality Assurance Director of the Sakai Foundation and Ian Dolphin the Executive Director of the Sakai Foundation with significant contributions from the Sakai community, Sakai CLE Courseware Management: The Official Guide is a comprehensive study of how Sakai CLE should be used, managed, and maintained, with real world examples and practical explanations.The book opens with an overview of Sakai, its history and how to set up a demonstration version. Next, the underlying structures and tools are described. In using Sakai for Teaching and Collaboration, there is a detailed discussion of how to structure online courses for teaching and collaboration between groups of students, from creating course sites to understanding their use in different organizations around the world.
Table of Contents (27 chapters)
Sakai CLE Courseware Management
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Terminology
Index

What's Next? — The Sakai open academic environment


The Sakai CLE has always been more than just a Learning Management System. It is widely used by institutions to support many other forms of online collaboration, from the support of distributed research groups through student clubs and societies, to administrative bodies.

Ever since the Sakai was conceived in 2001-03, much has changed. Underpinning technology and architecture has continued to develop. There has been an explosion of what some call "the social web". To risk stating the obvious, we have also learned a lot more about what it means to learn, teach, and support research online in that period. We have far greater experience on which to base the planning and development of future software. A new community project, the Sakai Open Academic Environment (formerly Sakai 3) is, at the time of writing, on a 12-month path of rapid development to address the communities evolving needs.

Chapter 17, The Sakai long term vision will explore these plans.