The solution was an offline client that enabled students to switch from working through an offline study guide to participating in an online group discussion seamlessly.
Louis Botha holds a master's degree in statistics from North-West University, where he worked on computer-based simulation models and taught statistics to engineering students. He has been involved in distance e-learning since 1999, from both the teacher and developer's perspective. As the technical lead developer for Psybergate Cape Town, he leads the development team building Sakai tools for the local community in South Africa.
Solo (http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/confluence/display/SOLO), an offline tool for viewing Sakai content, needs to be considered in terms of the value it can add as well as the possibilities that it offers to the future of e-learning. Using Solo, students do not have to be connected continually to Sakai while studying. There is a significant...