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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

Case studies from the winner's circle


The first and second place winners of the 2008 Teaching with Sakai Innovation Award were Dr. Aileen Huang-Saad from the University of Michigan and Mr. Salim A. Nakhjavani from the University of Cape Town (South Africa), respectively. Their work will be showcased along with "innovation snapshots" of the 2009's award winning projects, in this section. Although there are many inventive aspects unique to how each instructor uses Sakai to enrich their students' learning experience, all share a common theme of shifting from a more passive teacher-centered instructional method to a more active student-centered approach.

2008's First place winner: Biomedical Engineering (University of Michigan, USA)

The first place winner was a Biomedical Engineering course run by Dr. Aileen Huang-Saad from the University of Michigan. A specific selection of Sakai tools was chosen to create a dynamic online experience.

Course description

This interactive, graduate-level course,...