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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 apology of sorts


Now for my apology to the reader: The amount of code in Contrib is very large — I could spend the whole of this book explaining all the extra features. Therefore, if this chapter fails to mention your favorite tool or supporting utility code, then I'm sorry; this is purely accidental.

There are particular organizations, such as CARET (http://www.caret.cam.ac.uk) and individuals, such as Ian Boston, Charles Severance, Stephen Githens, and Aaron Zeckoski, who achieve much and give back code improvements to the rest of us for appropriate reuse. However, then this book would, no doubt, be burnt by hordes of the tribe, angrily pointing out the vast contributions from others in the community, such as Brian Richwine, David Norton, Stephen Marquard, Beth Kirschner, David Roldan Martinez, and so on (visualize a long line of relevant contributors queuing into the vast distance). The community is active, from large organizations downwards, and all the activities are difficult to...