Early adoption pays for the teaching staff as the platform allows them to manage their time and helps to organize their student relationships.
This paper briefly introduces the University Fernando Pessoa (UFP) (http://www.ufp.pt) experience with Sakai. UFP is a 20-year-old university with 5000 students and around 600 teaching staff. It is organized under three faculties: Health, Human Studies, and Science and Technology. Since 1994, it has had an excellent record of introducing innovative uses of technology for supporting its learning, such as the 1995 project requiring that each first-year student have a laptop computer. As a result, in early 2004, the university board decided to support the e-learning group efforts to select, develop, and implement an e-learning platform as the institutional response for both face-to-face and distance learning offers. From October 2004 until August 2008, the use of UFP-UV the local Sakai flavor (http://elearning...