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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

Chapter 16. Participating in the Sakai Community

This chapter discusses what the Sakai community is and how to participate in it.

The Sakai ecosphere is structured around a community source model (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_source). Sakai is distributed with an open source license whose legal home is the Sakai Foundation. The Foundation centrally coordinates project management for core features and sets date-driven targets for development. The core, enterprise-ready code has a well-defined software life cycle with a fully integrated Quality Assurance process. The combination of vigorous project management, a legal home for the source code, and a clearly identifiable Foundation enables large organizations to donate resources to the collective whole confidently. There is also room for individuals to do well and have a significant impact.

You can read an excellent article on the subject of community source by Brad Wheeler (Indiana University) at http://connect.educause.edu...