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New to Sakai?
Peter Knoop, University of Michigan
Amy Neymeyr, Indiana University
Peter Knoop
Project Coordinator – Sakai Foundation
Research Investigator – University of Michigan
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Peter Knoop
Project Coordinator – Sakai Foundation
Research Investigator – University of Michigan
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Amy Neymeyr
•Indiana University – IT Training and Education
•Then:
•Creating/maintaining end-user
support documentation
•Now:
•Quality Assurance testing
•Developing functional requirements
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Agenda
Time
Topic
1:00 – 1:30
1:30 – 2:00
2:00 – 3:00
3:00 – 3:15
Introductions/Why Sakai?
Overview of Sakai
Using Sakai
Break
3:15 – 4:30
4:30 – 5:00
Using Sakai (cont’d)
Deploying Sakai (Migration and Integration)
5:00 – 5:30
Preview of Conference and Wrap-Up
Logistics
• Bathrooms are located near the foot of the
escalators in the lobby…
• Break at 3:00-3:15pm
• Wi-Fi
• Sakai
• sakai123
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How are you? Why are you Here?
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Name?
Affiliation?
Role?
Previous knowledge of Sakai?
Interest in Sakai?
Favorite thing to do in Boston?
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Overview of Sakai
• What is Sakai?
• History
• Getting Involved
What is Sakai?
The Sakai CLE is a flexible, enterprise application that
supports teaching, learning and scholarly collaboration
in either fully or partially online environments. The
Sakai CLE is distributed as free, open-source software,
which offers the ultimate in flexibility and avoids the
risks of vendor lock-in and escalating license costs.
Built by educators for educators.
• Foundation
• Software
• Community
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Brief History of Sakai
• 1990’s Research projects and home-grown
efforts
• 2000’s Recognition of a common needs,
shared resources (not just dev, but help)
• 2003 Mellon Grant
• UM, IU, Stanford, MIT
• Pick best-of-breed (CHEF)
• Iron Chef Hiroyuki Sakai
• 2005 Non-profit
Sakai (the Foundation) is…
• …a member-based, non-profit 501(c)(3)
corporation engaged in the collaborative
design, development and distribution of
open-source software for education,
research and related scholarly activities.
• …supported by voluntary partner
contributions (Sakai Partners Program)
• …governed by a ten-member Board of
Directors elected by Sakai Partners
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Sakai Foundation Staff
Executive Director – Michael Korcuska
Project Coordinator – Peter Knoop
Community Coordinator – Anthony Whyte
QA Director – Pete Peterson
Admin Coordinator – Mary Miles
Welcome!
Product Manager – Clay Fenlason
Communications Manager – Pieter Hartsook
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Sakai Board:
• John Norman, Chair
• Josh Baron
• Lois Brooks
• Clay Fenlason
• Josh Hardin
• Stephen Marquard
• Lance Speelmon
• Jutta Treviranus
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Role of the Sakai Foundation
• Oversee Sakai's intellectual property.
• Encourage community-building between
academic institutions, non-profits and
commercial organizations.
• Promote Sakai and the wider adoption of
open-source standards and approaches within
higher education.
• Coordinates software development, quality
assurance and distribution.
• Manage Sakai’s conferences and meetings.
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Sakai (the Software) is…
• … a Collaboration and Learning
Environment – CLE (or LMS, CMS…)
• …an enterprise-ready collaboration and
courseware management platform that
provides users with a suite of learning,
portfolio, library, project and research
tools
• …open-Source – free to download,
customize, and contribute…
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Licensing
EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY LICENSE — Sakai’s software is
licensed under the terms of the ECL, a variant of the Apache
license. The ECL encourages a wide range of use including the
production of derivative work in the commercial space.
NO FEES OR ROYALTIES — Sakai is free to acquire, use, copy,
modify, merge, publish, redistribute & sublicense for any
purpose provided our copyright notice & disclaimer are
included in all copies of the original or derivative work(s).
NO “COPYLEFT” RESTRICTIONS — unlike GPL redistributed
derivative works are neither required to adopt the Sakai
license nor publish the source code as open-source.
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Technical Goals
SCALABILITY/RELIABILTY — build enterprise-level software;
support > 100,000 users in clustered environments; promote
high availability and performance optimization.
EXTENSIBLITY — build in component-based expansion with class
loader isolation.
FLEXIBLITY — simplify local customizations, including
internationalization.
INTEROPERABLITY/INTEGRATION
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achieve
seamless
integration across tools and systems when appropriate; data
interoperability and ability to extend Sakai via web services.
SEPARATION OF CONCERNS — maintain clear abstraction
boundaries between tools, services, framework, &
presentation.
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Architecture
FRAMEWORK (SAF) — registrar for tools &
services; provider of common services;
no knowledge of domain objects.
SERVICES — provide business logic &
persistence mechanisms; service-toservice communication via documented
APIs; presentation agnostic.
TOOLS — define presentation; exhibit no
persistence; discover implementations
of APIs at run time using Spring
Framework
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Sakai
ComponentManager.
AGGREGATOR/PORTAL — orchestrates tool
placement & configures final UI;
receives & dispatches requests to tools
after setting properties like “context.”
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Presentation Services (SAF)
WS Client
Presentation abstraction
Abstract Tool Layout (JSP)
Axis (SAF)
Tool Code (Java)
WS Endpoint
Service Interface (APIs)
Application Services
Common Services (SAF)
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Sakai “Project” Nomenclature
Past (Tools & Services)
• Contrib
• Provisional
• Core
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Future (Capabilities)
• R&D
• Incubation
• Project
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Tools, Services, and Capabilities
• Much of today will be a chance to see and
try out the current version of Sakai
• More soon…
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Sakai Release Timelines
• Project Coordination meetings at Conferences
(Monday and Saturday)…
• Releases supported for two-years; longer, if
sufficient community interest and involvement
• Sakai 2.5 – Current recommended release is 2.5.4
• Sakai 2.6 – Right after conference will be 2.6.0
• Sakai 2.7 – early-2010?
• Sakai 3.0 – 2011/2012? (Early-adopters early2010?)
• Sakai 2.4 – To be deprecated with 2.6 release
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Sakai Release Timelines
• Periodic Maintenance Releases
• Maintenance Branches (2.4.x, 2.5.x, 2.6.x)
• 2.5.5 – right after conference
• 2.6.1 – in a couple months?
• Security Patches
• Advanced Notification
• Security Contact List
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What is Sakai 2.6?
• Evolutionary step from 2.5 (most robust,
stable, widely used release to-date)
• No major UI changes (need to update
support documentation minimized)
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Key 2.6 Enhancements
• Sakai 2.6 Overview
• http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/x/BoA0
• Highlights
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Separate Kernel 1.0 Release
“Student View”
Site creation templates
Added db2 and WebSphere support
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Enhanced for 2.6
Tools
• Assignments
• Calendar Summary
• Citations
• Email Archive
• Gradebook
• Messages
• Portfolio (OSP)
• Preferences
• Resources
• Schedule
• Tests & Quizzes (a.k.a. Samigo)
• Worksite Setup/Site Info
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Services
• component
• Content Hosting Service
• course-management
• email
• emailtemplateservice
• entitybroker
• JSF
• Web services
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Tools with Bug-Fixes only for 2.6
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Announcements
Chat
Help
Linktool
Login
Membership
Metaobj
MOTD (Message-of-the-Day)
MyWorkspace
News (RSS)
On-Line
Podcasts
Post'em
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Presence
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Roster
Search
Section Info
SUTool
Syllabus
Tab Management
Users
Web Content
Worksite Information
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Services with Bug-Fixes only for 2.6
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Access
Alias
Authz
Build
Calendar
Content-Review
Courier
Database
Entity
Event
IMSTI
JCR
Memory
Portlet
Privacy
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Profile
Quartz Scheduler
Realms
Reports
Rights
Site
Sites
Skins
Test Harness
Tool
Util
Velocity
WebDAV
WSRP
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Services moved to Kernel 1.0
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authz
cluster
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content
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email
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What is 2.7?
• Initial call posted for ideas…
• Evaluate based on community interest,
community experience, project team
support, compatibility, integration,
robustness, scalability, accessibility,
internationalization, design review, etc. –
Sakai Product Council
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Suggestions so far 2.7
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Wiki rich-text editor (2.6.1?)
Assignments 2
Gradebook 2
Site hierarchy support
Forums enhancements
Simple Content Authoring
Look for announcements after conference…
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What is Sakai 3.0?
• Friday is “Sakai 3 Day”
• New Paradigms
• Everything is content
• Capability-focused
• Independence of user,
groups, sites, and content
• New Development
Processes
• Increase crossinstitutional participation
• Sakai Product Council
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Sakai (the Community) is…
• …a global, diverse group of individuals and
organizations interested in and motivated
to support Sakai the software and each
other.
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Sakai Partners Program
• SPP provides the intellectual, human and financial
capital necessary to support both the foundation and
the work of the community.
• Foundation governance
• Help determine priorities for the community
• Work cooperatively in every phase of Sakai's software
production process.
• Membership in the Sakai Partners Program is optional
and is open to academic institutions, non-profits and
commercial organizations committed to Sakai's
community-source vision of open-source software
development and distribution.
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Sakai Partners Program
• Regular membership: $10,000 per year
(less than 3000 student enrollment in
largest semester, $5000/year)
• Sakai Commercial Affiliate (SCA)
membership fees based on a sliding scale:
$2000 per $1 million in revenues
(minimum of $2000/maximum of $10,000)
• 20% discount for three-year memberships
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Sakai Fellowship Awards
• Acknowledge, celebrate and reward the valuable
and significant Sakai volunteer contributors in all
areas of Sakai.
• 2009 Sakai Fellows:
• Ian Boston, University of Cambridge
• Jean-François Lévêque, Université Pierre et Marie
Curie
• Nicolaas Matthijs, University of Cambridge
• Mathieu Plourde, University of Delaware
• Janice A. Smith, Three Canoes Consulting
• Steve Swinsburg, Lancaster University
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Community Communications
• Where to “listen”?
• Announcements email list
• Newsletter (job postings, excerpts from email lists)
• Where to “speak”?
• Community Email lists
• Wiki (Confluence)
• Conferences, Workshops, Meet-Ups, User Groups, etc.
• Where to “research”?
• Email list archives, Website, Wiki (Confluence)
• New Communications Manager
Community Themes
• Email lists, Conference Tracks, Wiki Spaces,
etc.
• Building Sakai
• Deploying Sakai
• Using Sakai
Building Sakai
• [email protected]
• Designing, developing, testing, and
documenting Sakai
• learn about the technical details of building tools
or integrating services
• find guidelines for design and development of
tools and services
• locate technical specifications
• learn about plans for future releases
• For designers, programmers, developers, and
quality assurance
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Deploying Sakai
• [email protected]
• Implementing, installing, configuring, and
supporting Sakai
• find release documentation
• learn about performance tuning
• browse suggested hardware and software
configurations
• share examples of training, tutorial and support
materials
• For system administrators, database
administrators, and technical support staff
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Using Sakai
• [email protected]
• Teaching and learning, collaboration, and
other uses of Sakai
• learn about best practices
• share experience
• connect with user communities with similar
interests, K-12, Higher-Ed, Portfolios
• For teachers, staff, students, researchers,
instructional designers, instructional
technologists and end-user support staff
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Project Wiki - Confluence
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Getting Involved…
• Development Process
• Evolving for Sakai 3 (and Sakai 2.7)
• Everyone should be involved, including end-users, enduser support, instructional designers/technologists, and
system/database administrators
• Key are the resource-controllers and the Product Council
• Foundation is there only to coordinate
• New Requirements Process (product and community much
more mature now)
• Community Support
• Ask and answer questions on the email lists
• Help contribute and maintain wiki content and
documentation
Agenda
Time
Topic
1:00 – 1:30
1:30 – 2:00
2:00 – 3:00
3:00 – 3:15
Introductions/Why Sakai?
Overview of Sakai
Using Sakai
Break
3:15 – 4:30
4:30 – 5:00
Using Sakai (cont’d)
Deploying Sakai (Migration and Integration)
5:00 – 5:30
Preview of Conference and Wrap-Up
TIME FOR SOME BEST PRACTICES…
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Agenda
Time
Topic
1:00 – 1:30
1:30 – 2:00
2:00 – 3:00
3:00 – 3:15
Introductions/Why Sakai?
Overview of Sakai
Using Sakai
Break
3:15 – 4:30
4:30 – 5:00
Using Sakai (cont’d)
Deploying Sakai (Migration and Integration)
5:00 – 5:30
Preview of Conference and Wrap-Up
TIME FOR SOME BEST PRACTICES…
…PORTFOLIOS…
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Introduction to the
Open Source Portfolio
Janice Smith
Three Canoes
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The ePortfolio Process
Connect with others
by sharing your portfolio and
receiving their feedback
(Social Learning)
Collect information
on yourself and
your learning
Collection
Connection
(Integrative
Learning)
Selection
Reflection
Reflect upon the
meaning of what you share
in relation to who you are
and who you want to become
(Reflective Learning)
Select information
you want to share
with specific audiences
via a portfolio
A continuously iterative process
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Three ePortfolio Archetypes
Personal
Representation
Teaching
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Learning
Assessment
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Accreditation
Examples from the rSmart CLE Portfolio Showcase, http://www.rsmart.com/portfolios
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ePortfolio Archetypes - I
ePortfolios for Personal
Representation
• Have a developmental focus
• Guide students in collecting
information about themselves
• Assist students in managing their
virtual identity
• Examples include:
• Resumes
• Professional Portfolios
• Narrative Portfolios
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ePortfolio Archetypes – II
ePortfolios for Teaching and Learning
• Have an educational focus
• Guide students in creating and submitting portfolio-worthy evidence
• Evidence is linked to and evaluated according to standards, outcomes,
objectives
• Examples include:
• General Education portfolios
• Disciplinary Portfolios
• Co-Curricular Transcripts
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ePortfolio Archetypes - III
ePortfolios for Assessment and Accreditation
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Focus on acquisition of assessment data for purposes of accreditation
Are usually combined with portfolios for teaching and learning
User reports to aggregate and analyze assessment data and identify representative
artifacts of learning
Examples include portfolios for:
• Assessing institutional outcomes
• Assessing disciplinary outcomes
• Combination of the above
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Sakai Portfolio Tools
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Portfolio Sites
Resources
Forms
Matrices
Wizards
Glossary
Evaluations
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Styles
Portfolio Layouts
Portfolios
Portfolio Templates
Reports
Goal Management
Data Points
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OSP Tool Interactions
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Portfolio Sites
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Differentiated from course / project sites
Specifically dedicated to portfolio work
Specialized tools/roles /permissions
Portfolio tools also available for course and project sites
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Created with xsd via Forms tool
xsd may be generated using Form
Builder tool
Available for export/import
Accessed through and stored in
Resources
Used for
• Providing reflection prompts
• Offering feedback and evaluation
• Structuring participant content
• Matrices
• Wizards
• Portfolios
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Wizards
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Allow the creation of a series of screens to
"scaffold" users through the process of entering
the data to use in creating portfolios
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Two types of wizards in OSP:
• Sequential Wizards
• A set of pages presented one after the
other.
• Hierarchical wizards
• A nested tree of categories and pages
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Wizard pages can include guidance (instructions,
rationale and examples) for the portfolio user
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Creators of wizards can add forms to wizard pages
to prompt portfolio owners, reviewers and
evaluators to provide
• Evidence and documentation of learning
• Reflections
• Feedback
• Evaluations
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Wizard Pages
The designer may also allow users to attach files to individual forms.
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Matrices
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Matrix cells are almost identical
to wizard pages
Matrices allow:
• Application of styles
• Customization of
• Rows and columns
• For each cell
• Instruction,
rationale,
examples
• Progression
across cell
• Reflection
• Feedback
• Evaluation
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Matrices
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Evaluations
• Instructor resource for receiving student submissions of matrix cells and
wizard pages
• Allow instructors to submit evaluations without accessing matrix or wizard
• Instructors with permission may also access matrices and wizards of
individual students via drop-down menus in matrix and wizard tools
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Portfolios
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May be created from portfolio templates
May also be created freeform by user
• User selects content and applies style and layout
• Choice of styles and layouts supplied by site organizer or portfolio admin
Resume Portfolio
created using a
portfolio template
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Matrix Portfolio
Created from the data within a matrix
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Co-Curricular Transcript
May be created with
or without a matrix
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Portfolio Templates
Created with .xml and used to structure and display student evidence of learning
according to the student’s choice of audience..
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Reports
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Require use of report templates
(definitions)
Templates specify data to be collected
Data may be displayed, printed, and/or
exported
May be created using
• Sakai Reports tool
• New OSP data warehouse
organization for extracting form data
available Fall 2009
• Integration of Pentajo open source
reporting application with Sakai
• Direct SQL query of OSP data
warehouse tables
Community seeking database experts to
finish structuring XML data in OSP data
warehouse for forms and other data
structures
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Portfolio Admin
• Site with admin tools
for portfolios
• Allows membership in
site for use of admin
tools
• Houses global
• Forms
• Glossary items
• Portfolio Layouts
• Styles
• Report templates
(definitions)
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Challenges to Using OSP
• Functional knowledge of the tools and how they work together
• Takes significant time to understand
• Much of that time will be spent unproductively
• Technical knowledge
• Not every shop understands the XML stack, or how to apply the
knowledge to OSP
• Where the technical knowledge exists, the connection to the pedagogy may
not be there
• Portfolio implementations are much more than tech projects
• Ongoing leadership is essential in sustaining the effort into the future
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OSP Community Resources
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OSP Community
• http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/OSP/Project+--+Portfolio
• Weekly phone conference, listserv, OSP documentation and resources
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OSP Community Library
• http://openedpractices.org/
• Use cases and data structures for export
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Sakai Confluence
• http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/confluence
• OSP documentation and resources
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rSmart CLE Portfolio Showcase
• http://www.rsmart.com/portfolios
• Three archetypal portfolio implementations with data structures for export
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Three Canoes Consulting
• http://threecanoes.com
• Services for Sakai/OSP implementation
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Agenda
Time
Topic
1:00 – 1:30
1:30 – 2:00
2:00 – 3:00
3:00 – 3:15
Introductions/Why Sakai?
Overview of Sakai
Using Sakai
Break
3:15 – 4:30
4:30 – 5:00
Using Sakai (cont’d)
Deploying Sakai (Migration and Integration)
5:00 – 5:30
Preview of Conference and Wrap-Up
TIME FOR SOME BEST PRACTICES…
…CONTINUED…
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Agenda
Time
Topic
1:00 – 1:30
1:30 – 2:00
2:00 – 3:00
3:00 – 3:15
Introductions/Why Sakai?
Overview of Sakai
Using Sakai
Break
3:15 – 4:30
4:30 – 5:00
Using Sakai (cont’d)
Deploying Sakai (Migration and Integration)
5:00 – 5:30
Preview of Conference and Wrap-Up
TIME FOR DEPLOYMENT STORIES…
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Deployment Experiences
• Integration
• Migration
• Support
• Marist College
• Texas State University
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Marist College
Sakai Transition Overview
Josh Baron
Director
Academic Technology and eLearning
Marist College Snapshot
• Comprehensive liberal arts college
• Located in Poughkeepsie, New York
• 5700 FTE students, 200 full-time
faculty, 500 part-time faculty
• Reputation as technology innovator
• Strategic plan calls for growth in distance
learning
iLearn (Sakai) Environment
• Blade 64 bit servers (2 app, web, &
database)
• Running Linux, Apache, Tomcat, mySQL
• Planning move to IBM DB2/WAS
• Also looking at running Sakai on System z
• Currently integrated with IA Plus (SIS)
• Migrating to Banner, SIS module 2010
Phased Implementation Model
• Phase I: March 2006 (NSF Funded)
• Rigorous internal system testing
• Started small scale pilot with one cohort
• Phase II: Fall 2006 (NSF Funded)
• Expanded production pilot
• Upgraded to new version, migrated content
• Phase III: Fall 2007 (Production Pilot)
• Established rSmart partnership
• Faculty adoption and communication strategy
Evaluating Sakai - Decision Criteria
• Functionality
Requirements
• Where there Critical,
Essential or Desirable
functionality gaps?
• Staffing and Support
Requirements
• Would we need to hire
more staff?
• Health of the Sakai
Community
• Is the Sakai Community here to
stay?
• Reliability & Scalability
• Can we scale up over the next
decade to meet demand?
• Realizing Innovation
• Would innovation truly be
realized?
Sakai Transition Overview
• Sakai Conversion Rates
• Goal for Fall 08: 15%; Result: 65%, we will complete
transition in one year
• Training Services
• Academic Technology Institutes: Introduction to Sakai,
Refresher, & Open Labs (range of delivery formats)
• Support Services
• Developed Best Practices Booklet, FAQs, Web
Tutorials, Student Tip Sheets
• Migration Services
• Migrated data from old CMS to Sakai and used Course
Migration Guide model
What are we doing now?
• Expanding ePortfolio pilots
• Related to Core Curriculum redesign and Middlestates
accreditation
• Starting to see major use of Project Sites
• Faculty committees, administrative groups, student
clubs (> 90 sites to date)
• Integration with SIS has increased productivity
• Worked with rSmart on integration, Banner SIS is next
• Teaching and Learning innovation
• Instructors are moving from “transition” to innovation
• Teaching with Sakai Innovation Award
Texas State
Sakai Transition Overview
Salwa Kahn
Example Staffing Levels (circa 2007)
Code Commits
Role
PM
Technical Lead
HIGH
HIGH
MED
MED
Michigan Stanford Rutgers GA Tech
(45K
(14K
(27K
(20K
users)
users)
users)
users)
.75
1.00
.50
Sys Admin
2.50
1.00
DBA
Developer
QA
.50
3.00
1.50
.25
3.00
UI Designer
Instructional
Designer
Technical Writer
1.00
End-User Support
3.00
Trainer
Totals
1.00
1.00
2.00
.50
1.00
1.25
.75
LOW
LOW
Yale
Cerritos
(15K
(20K
users)
users)
.20
.10
.50
.10
LOW
Rice
(10K
users)
.10
.10
.25
.10
.20
.50
.50
.10
2.50
.25
.10
.10
.10
.10
.50
.10
.25
.10
.25
.10
.25
.50
14.00
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.50
MED
UCT
(25K
users)
.50
.25
.10
.10
4.00
9.25
1.00
1.00
1.25
5.25
.50
4.75
.50
3.75
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.50
.25
5.15
.50
2.00
.10
1.85
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Agenda
Time
Topic
1:00 – 1:30
1:30 – 2:00
2:00 – 3:00
3:00 – 3:15
Introductions/Why Sakai?
Overview of Sakai
Using Sakai
Break
3:15 – 4:30
4:30 – 5:00
Using Sakai (cont’d)
Deploying Sakai (Migration and Integration)
5:00 – 5:30
Preview of Conference and Wrap-Up
Q&A
Conference Overview and Wrap-Up
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Denver
Atlanta
New Orleans
Amsterdam
Baltimore
Newport Beach
Austin
Paris
Vancouver
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Regional Conferences
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•
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Africa
Europe
Australia
China
Japan
United States
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Regional and Language Communities
• New York City
• Spanish Sakai
• Sakai Japan
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Suggested Sessions
• Tech demos Thursday night
• Teaching with Sakai award winner
presentations (will be recorded)
• Showcase – Tool/Capability demonstrations
• Newcomers Reception (this evening)
Conference Tracks
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Multiple Audiences
Building Sakai
Deploying Sakai
Using Sakai
• Portfolio
• Showcase
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Suggested Sessions –
Multiple Audiences
• Wed 15:15-16:00
• Sakai Foundation Update
• Wed 16:00-16:45
• Sakai Foundation Board Q&A
• Wed 13:15-14:15
• Community Gathering: Reinventing the
Requirements Gathering Process
• Fri 09:30-10:25
• Sakai 3.0 RC1 – Towards Sakai’s Next Generation
Version
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Suggested Sessions – Building Sakai
• Wed 09:45 - 10:45
• Sakai Development Process
• Thu 13:15 - 14:45
• Why Sakai for Building Apps? Toward a
compelling application platform
• Fri 13:45 - 14:30
• Participating in Sakai 3
Suggested Sessions – Deploying Sakai
• Thur11:00-12:00
• Sakai at the Claremont Colleges
• Wed 11:00-12:00
• Learn the Secrets to a Smooth Sakai
Transition
Suggested Sessions – Using Sakai
• Wed 11:00-12:00
• Faculty Success Stories
• Wed 14:15-15:00
• Faculty Stories About Sakai
• Fri 13:45-14:45
• An Honest Look at Sakai
Suggested Sessions – Portfolio
• Wed 13:15-14:30
• OSP User Experience: Current Examples and
Calls for Future
• Wed 16:35-17:30
• Building your First OSP template
Have a Good Conference!
• See you at the Newcomers Reception…
• 6:00-7:00pm
• Riverside Pavilion (the big white tent)
• http://sakaiproject.org
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