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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

Crossing the border into research: A case study of students' engagement with a virtual research environment


The VRE is used as an information hub; students requiring information will have need of the site as will those who use it for peer support and collaboration.

About the authors

Dr. Claire Cassidy: Claire is a lecturer in the Faculty of Education at the University of Strathclyde. She is course director for the PG Certificate in Philosophy with Children and is the Programme Coordinator for the B.Ed. Educational Studies and Major Project. Claire is also a member of the Applied Educational Research Scheme, Learners, Learning and Teaching Network 1. Her research interests include Philosophy with Children, philosophical concepts of the child and communities of enquiry — both philosophical and educational.

Sanna Rimpiläinen: Sanna worked as an administrator and a researcher in the Virtual Research Environment of the Applied Educational Research Scheme of Scotland at the University of Strathclyde...