Book Image

Sakai CLE Courseware Management: The Official Guide

Book Image

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 community


The following figure displays the dynamic of support, be it financial or human, for the Foundation. This figure was kindly contributed by Anthony Whyte.

Non-commercial, and to a lesser extent, commercial organizations pay annual fees and donate human resources. The central pillar of the community is individual universities that collectively work towards their common goals. Many individual universities are involved such as the University of Michigan, Indiana University, Cambridge, Berkeley, Amsterdam, Cape Town, Hull, Paris, Texas State, University of Florida, and apologies to the large number of other universities not mentioned but that deserve mentioning. Non-profit consortiums host or support Sakai for a wide set of small- and medium-sized organizations. Shining examples include CampusEAI (http://www.campuseai.org) and the Etudes consortiums.

CampusEAI recently won a significant contract to implement Sakai for the Northern Buckeye Education Council (NBEC), a not-for-profit...