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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

Entity Broker


Over time, more and more tools and services are included within Sakai. Therefore, there is an ever-expanding set of data, such as courses, users, polls, forums, grade books, assessments, and new data structures, available for integration.

It would indeed be handy if instead of needing to write custom web services per new entity, a tool programmer could call a service, write, and register his or her data for exposure. The kernel would then become responsible for the end delivery and the RESTful web services. Because the programmer does not have to deal as much with the details as before the services existed, the structure reduces the duplication of code and effort. This also increases maintainability, quality, and scalability, and generally eases the programmer's burden. Further, if by default, the entities are exposed as MIME types HTML, JSON, XML, you can write rich web-based applications and widget sets that consume the JSON and XML formats from the data within Sakai.

The...