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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

UFP-UV: UFP in the Sakai project


Early adoption pays for the teaching staff as the platform allows them to manage their time and helps to organize their student relationships.

Abstract

This paper briefly introduces the University Fernando Pessoa (UFP) (http://www.ufp.pt) experience with Sakai. UFP is a 20-year-old university with 5000 students and around 600 teaching staff. It is organized under three faculties: Health, Human Studies, and Science and Technology. Since 1994, it has had an excellent record of introducing innovative uses of technology for supporting its learning, such as the 1995 project requiring that each first-year student have a laptop computer. As a result, in early 2004, the university board decided to support the e-learning group efforts to select, develop, and implement an e-learning platform as the institutional response for both face-to-face and distance learning offers. From October 2004 until August 2008, the use of UFP-UV the local Sakai flavor (http://elearning...