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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

An interview with the director


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Hans Nederlof is a "Certified Management Accountant" (CMA) and "(Executive) Master of Finance and Control" (MFC) and was formally the Managing Director of the Central Computing Services, Universiteit van Amsterdam (UvA).

Hans Nederlof became the managing director of Central Computing Services in 2008. He is educated in finance. With experience at managerial level in several non-profit organizations, the work at an educational organization was definitely new and thus very attractive to him. It was time to explore other fields of work. "At a university, one expects to work with highly motivated people, driven by concern for content, and to work for a lively student population." Hans says, "The University of Amsterdam has it all."

What is Hans' managerial experience with closed and open source, or, as in the case of the Sakai framework, community software?

"What I know about open source or community software is what was told to me in the last couple of months...