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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

The LAMP Consortium — like a bundle of sticks


A genuinely collaborative model for colleges and universities with limited resources to provide low-cost, high-quality access to Sakai

About the author

Martin Ramsay is Managing Director of CEATH Company, a consulting firm he co-founded in 1979. CEATH Company (http://www.ceath.com) is an international consulting firm focusing on institutional effectiveness. In his role as Managing Director, Martin was featured in Fortune magazine as "an expert on the organizational impact of new information systems" who impresses clients with his "preparedness and clarity." The Center for Digital Education presented him with their "In the Spotlight" Award, calling him one of the "most innovative, hard-working, trend-setting IT leaders in the nation." His ongoing project for the Appalachian College Association, the Learning Asset Management Project (LAMP), won the Mellon Award for Technology Collaboration (http://matc.mellon.org/press-release) in 2008. As a consultant...