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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

Chapter 13. Show Cases

Sakai shapes the online learning experience of many millions of students internationally. It has been proven to scale from small pilots to deployments greater than 160,000 students, such as at the University of South Africa (https://my.unisa.ac.za/portal). Sakai works well within many higher education cultures and with different student learning practices. It has been deployed in single departments, in the entire student population at large universities, and in consortiums and commercial third-party hosting services.

This chapter includes ten case studies that explore the real-life situations from individuals' viewpoints. Experts have written the studies. They have written each case study in their own style to emphasize the range of cultures involved in the community. Consider this a low-resolution snapshot of ever changing, diverse cultures.

The ten case studies included in this chapter are:

  1. 1. Cambridge University: Patrick Carmichael and Katy Jordan discuss Camtools...