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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

Summary


A community source model governs Sakai CLE where there is a centrally coordinated Foundation and the code is freely available to everyone.

The Sakai Foundation acts as a legal home for Sakai and supports transparent communication by building a supportive infrastructure including the bug database, the confluence Wiki, and distribution and work groups.

The community has a wide range of participants, from individuals and commercial organizations, to universities and consortiums. The universities are the main pillar of support.

The Foundation recommends that any new community members join the Announcements distribution list. This will give you an insight into current news and events.

There are many areas where you can constructively work on Sakai. These include developing, testing, documenting, discussing, and designing.

If you are not certain where you can help, you are welcome to contact the Foundation directly at http://www.sakaiproject.org/portal/site/sakai-contactus.

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