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Sakai CLE Courseware Management: The Official Guide

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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

rSmart


With rSmart's goal of making Sakai easy to "consume" for all types of intuitions, the first order of business is to make it easy to try.

Overview

rSmart (http://www.rsmart.com) is an open source software company serving the global education market by providing software support and services for the Sakai and Kuali (http://www.kuali.org/) community source projects. rSmart has been involved with the Sakai project from its early beginnings, both as a founding member of the Sakai Commercial Affiliates program and as a founder of the Open Source Portfolio project (OSP), which was later merged with Sakai. As an active participant in open source projects like Sakai and Kuali, rSmart is able to provide its customers with software applications specifically designed to meet the unique needs of educational institutions. The company's collaborative approach allows it to offer open source applications that break the dependence of educational institutions on traditional proprietary software vendors...