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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

CamTools: Using Sakai to support teaching and learning in a research-intensive university


CamTools has contributed not only to enhanced provision, but to a sense of "ownership" of the online environment and improved levels of engagement by both teachers and students.

About the authors

Patrick Carmichael is Head of Evaluation at the Centre for Applied Research in Educational Technologies (CARET) at the University of Cambridge, where he leads a team of education researchers involved in a range of teaching and learning initiatives within the university. He also directs externally funded research projects, including "Ensemble: Semantic Technologies for the Enhancement of Case Based Learning", a three-year project to explore the potential of semantic technologies to support and enhance teaching and learning in areas where complex subject matter makes case-based learning the pedagogy of choice. He has done PhD in Science Education and has written on issues as diverse as pre-school learning, assistive...