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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

Marist College and Sakai


Commercial partners offering assistance for Sakai implementations are heavily involved in the larger Sakai community and have a strong interest in the success of their partner institutions.

Background

Marist College (http://www.marist.edu/), located in Poughkeepsie, New York, is known as one of the most technologically advanced comprehensive liberal arts colleges in the United States. Marist, with its 4,300 students and 1000 staff, is a proud recipient of the Campus Technology Innovators Award and is recognized by The Princeton Review and Forbes as one of the 25th "Most Connected Campuses" in America.

In early 2006, Marist College embarked upon a rigorous two-year assessment of Sakai. When Marist began this assessment, many considered Sakai suited only to large research institutions. Nonetheless, Marist College was interested in understanding how Sakai might both meet technology needs and allow for substantive innovation in teaching and learning in a smaller institution...