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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

The Teaching with Sakai Innovation Award


The Teaching with Sakai Innovation Award, or TWSIA, as it has become known over time, seeks to expand and share educational knowledge and uses of Sakai to everyone using the collaborative learning environment. To reflect the many unique uses of Sakai, the Award Committee allows applicants to submit their Sakai sites for review in one of the four categories ("Fully Online/Hybrid", "Primary and Secondary, K-12", "Non-Traditional Sites - Portfolios, Student Sites", and "Traditional Higher Education - Web Supplemented"). Although there are many ways in which instructional technology, and in particular Sakai, can make the teaching process more efficient or productive, truly innovative applications go further by fundamentally transforming the educational experience in ways that improve student learning. The intent of the Teaching with Sakai Innovation Award is to highlight examples of educational applications of Sakai that fall into the innovative or transformative...