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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

SOLO — Taking e-learning offline


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.

About the author

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.

Background

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...