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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

Sakai OAE anatomy


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Ray Davis began contributing to Sakai during the development of Sakai 1.5. He is currently employed by the University of California, Berkeley.

Since the initial release of Sakai CLE 1.0, Sakai services and tools have dramatically improved in functionality, stability, and performance. Meanwhile, Sakai's architectural foundations and constraints have remained essentially unchanged. In late 2007, project veterans began reviewing more powerful and more standard approaches to componentization. A few months later, a team based at Cambridge University experimented with a radical redesign of the Sakai 2 user experience to better support social networking and simplify common administrative processes. These threads combined in an ambitious new project whose contributors span the globe: the Sakai Open Application Environment, or Sakai OAE.

Apart from the use of Java, the technical foundations of Sakai OAE represent a sharp break from Sakai CLE 1 and CLE 2. The OAE initially represented...