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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

DoOcracy


The community is tied together by the common interest of building and using Sakai to its best possible extent. No one owns Sakai and its future is dependent on the efforts of a large number of individuals. The Sakai community is a DoOcracy (http://www.communitywiki.org/en/DoOcracy). Individuals see something that they think needs to be done and help. A DoOcracy can only exist if communication between individuals is honest and polite. If the community is too critical, it will demotivate those who are actually doing the hard work. If you do not like what is happening, time to pull your sleeves up, get your hands dirty, and lead by example.

DoOcracies depend critically on good information being transparently available in a timely and structured manner.

The quality of decision making within international communities such as Sakai is based on multiple cultures and organizational mindsets. It is critically dependent on information transparency. Without transparent communication, efforts...