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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 Sakai Foundation


The Sakai Foundation supports the health of Sakai as a product and as a community through a number of coordinated processes. This section discusses these processes.

At the time of writing, the Foundation is in communication with other similar-minded organizations such as JASIG (http://www.jasig.org/) to review possible mergers. The details of which will be explained in the next chapter.

Consensus building

The Foundation supports consensus building within the community using a transparent communication strategy. All the important decisions are discussed in the open. The community is not chaotic; the Sakai Foundation supplies the central infrastructure for communication, such as the community website, Wiki, bug tracking database, and source code repository, and takes the responsibility of delivering timely information. The newsletter from Sakai is sent out twice a month and contains a summary of important announcements, and is a great shortcut for keeping up with what...