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Sakai Pilot Evaluation Final Report
UNC report on their pilot of Sakai as a replacement for Blackboard. Quote from a faculty member in the report: "Have heard many complaints about Blackboard being kludgy. Sakai is graceful."
The minimal support needed is a good sign of Sakai's overall usability: "First, of the more than 1,000 people using a completely new collaborative learning environment for almost a full year period, we had a total of 264 tickets—the vast majority of which (74%) were for requests to use the system (new sites
and new user accounts)...In summary, from a support perspective, 54 substantive help requests on behalf of more than 1,000 pilot participants over a nearly one-year period was a very positive finding."
Blackboard vs. Moodle: North Carolina Community Colleges Assessment
Highlights from a study comparing Blackboard and Moodle with several good points. Basically, neither system is much better than the other, but switching to Moodle saves money and ultimately makes students and faculty happy.
Average Pricing for Learning Management Systems in 2009
LMS pricing for low-cost systems for different sizes of implementations. I've seen complaints on the eLearning Guild discussion board that $50K for 100K users for Moodle was too high. Considering that the average price for that size is over a million dollars, $50K seems quite reasonable to me.
Sakai 3 Proposal
Vision for what Sakai could look like in the future. The authors envision an LMS based on widgets with lots of flexibility, social networking, and content creation tools. The proposed changes to the organization (doing away with sites) would make Sakai much more flexible outside of a traditional academic course environment. The ability to have groups persist outside of courses would allow cohorts to be part of a group together, which creates some interesting possibilities.
"In summary, our ambition is not merely an incremental improvement of Sakai nor is it to copy Google. Our goal is not simply to create a better and cheaper version of Blackboard. It is time to arrive at a clearer understanding of the capabilities that represent needs unique to education and for the Sakai community to focus its development effort on providing these capabilities while taking advantage of established open‐source efforts to provide more generic capabilities. We should, in short, strive to create a different type of academic collaboration system."
iterating toward openness » Blog Archive » If Facebook Worked Like Blackboard
A short post, but very pointed--if Facebook worked like an LMS, no real community would ever develop. Questions the whole idea of closed educational systems.
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- shut down all the groups you belonged to,
- deleted all your forum posts,
- removed all the photos, videos, and other files you had shared, and
- forgot who your friends were.
What if Facebook worked like Blackboard (or pretty much any other LMS)?
Imagine if every fifteen weeks Facebook:
Moving to Moodle: Reflections Two Years Later (EDUCAUSE Quarterly) | EDUCAUSE CONNECT
Reflections on the transition process moving from an in-house LMS to Moodle, including discussion of change management challenges
Content Migrations: Options, Strategies and Faux Pas
Collection of articles about content migration. Even though this is about general CMS migrations and not specific to e-learning, most of this is relevant to e-learning and converting from one LMS to another. The summary of points to take away seems very true: we can't expect perfect automated migration, and we have to anticipate that content will change.
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- Plan, plan, plan
- Look into automated and semi-automated, but don’t expect miracles
- Inventory first
- Never migrate content as is — always expect changes
- Keep metadata top of mind
- Consider outsourcing for the simple tasks like cutting and pasting
'Socializing' the CMS
The traditional CMS/LMS is designed for a more instructor-centered course, so the pedagogy of these courses reflects the technology. This article skims the surface of what might be possible if social networking tools, blogs, wikis, and more were used to construct courses and give students more control. What would that do to the pedagogy?
Gartner: E-learning Market Pushing Toward Open Source
Interview on the increase of open source LMSs Moodle and Sakai in higher education
Free SCORM Technical Resources - Ostyn Consulting
Technical information, tools, and white papers for SCORM. Less technical information is available on another page.
udutu | Create simulations online with ease.
Udutu has a beta system out called UdutuTeach and UdutuLearn to turn social networking sites like Facebook into an LMS
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Udutu brings to the eLearning community the world's first LMS designed to run on popular Social Networks such as Facebook.
Sakai's Current Accessibility - WG: Accessibility - Confluence
Documentation on Sakai's accessibility--it's mostly compliant, but there are still some issues.
Lancaster University. Centre for e-Science. e-Collaboration tools. Blogger
Step-by-step directions for the blog tool in Sakai
Blackboard 7.3 Discussion Board
Changes in the discussion board in Blackboard 7.3, including the grading options
Harold Jarche » Costs of open source and proprietary LCMS/LMS
Resources comparing the costs for open source and proprietary LMSs & LCMSs
Sakai Tutorial Menu
Sakai tutorials, created in Captivate. The information is good, but the audio is irritating--the narrator reads the caption text word-for-word and doesn't add anything else.
Sakai Tutorials — UCLA Office of Instructional Development
Video tutorials on Sakai from UCLA
Sakai Tutorials
Sakai tutorials, including video demos, from Oregon Health & Science University.
Edia Sakai Tools : SkinManager Portal : Home
Skins for Sakai. Requires registration for full features.
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