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Mellon Foundation Closes Grant Program
"Mellon’s decade-old Research in Information Technology program, or RIT, helped bankroll a catalog of freely available software that includes Sakai, a course-management system used by Stanford University and the University of Michigan; Kuali, a financial-management program recently rolled out at Colorado State University; and Zotero, a program for managing research sources used by millions. "
Teaching Award Opportunity for 2010
"Instructors making innovative use of CourseWork, Stanford’s course management system, are encouraged to apply for the 2010 Teaching With Sakai Innovation Award. Last year, Stanford University history Humanities Fellow Edith Sheffer, who we profiled on this blog, came in second place and was flown to Boston to speak about her use of the CourseWork wiki to teach history. "
Sakai: Open Source … Open Minds
"Unlike Learning Management Systems, Sakai turns students into active learners and contributors, and the instructor into a facilitator. The instructor activates tools and gives students, or groups of students, permissions to use them as they like; the instructor does not have to be an expert in the tools. This is just the start of the difference between Sakai and LMSs."
Summary of IU and LSU Site Visits
"Our recent site visits to Indiana University and Louisiana State University revealed much about the nature of Sakai and Moodle as learning management systems (LMSs), as well as strategies for implementing open source software at a major institution of higher education. "
Sakai 3: What It Is and When To Move To It
When will Sakai 3 be “ready”? When is a good time to migrate? If I’m under pressure to migrate in the short term, what should I do? Should I go to Sakai 2 and migrate later?
The Longsight Group LLC | Building open source solutions together
"Our Sakai as a Service program offers affordable production hosting and support in a comprehensive application services provider agreement, providing access to a dedicated and branded instance of Sakai with no long-term investments that allow you to focus on learning through collaboration, course management, e-portfolios, lesson building and dozens of other tools created by the higher education community. "
CampusEAI
"CampusEAI Consortium creates myCampus, a Web 2.0 SaaS Campus Portal, Web Content Management, Alumni Portal, and Prospective Student Portal solution. myCampus is used by over 1,500,000 guests, students, faculty, staff and alumni at over 250 K-12 and higher education institutions worldwide including Waynesburg University, Albany State University, Georgian College, Curry College and Central Wyoming College."
Sakai Québec
"Sakai-Québec is a non-profit association whose goal is to promote the Sakai online Collaboration and Learning Environment which encourages and enables the development of software and tools for e-learning and online collaboration based on open source code and open standards."
Using a wiki to document Isaak, Brock University’s Sakai-Based LMS
"The web is the best tool for infinite access to the same resource and to that end the CTLET look to Wikis to document things like WebCT, Sakai/Isaak, Brock University on iTunes U, etc. This decision to use a wiki was because of the constantly evolving nature of these teaching tools and the scarce resources of the Centre: It was just more timely to write-up articles that explain things or to write a how-tos that were sufficient and then post them. "
Simonides: A faculty-led, student-centered technology initiative
"In the spring of 2009, the Liberal Studies Program within the College of Arts and Science partnered with Information Technology Services (ITS) to develop Simonides, a web-based student portfolio of tools that is unique in its flexibility and academic focus."
Google Wave & Sakai: Exchanging data
"Over the last weeks I have been able to spend some time on my Google Wave endeavor. In my last blog I wrote about embedding GW in a Sakai environment which was a simple example of how this could be done."
Dynamics of Supporting Sakai Through Local and Global Collaboration
"This ECAR research bulletin discusses the adjustments that the Indiana University information technology organization made, and continues to make, in order to support membership in Sakai."
Leading Design for Assignments in Sakai 3
"Attached is a synthesis of these various sources, arranged around flows of assignment activities and the users centrally engaged with them."
Who Is Using Sakai & Moodle
"Up till now, I've always felt publicly available information about who is using Sakai has been inaccurate, erring on the side of undercounting, while Moodle's published usage statistics have always seemed unbelievably high and in need of a lot of interpretation. "
Teaching Teachers to Use Blended Learning
"Pedagogically, CSU Interact supports a social constructivist approach to e-learning, which suggests that learning is a social process and that students construct meaning from their own experiences."
Sakai, Blackboard and Moodle session at EDUCAUSE
"The interest in the session shows that a large proportion of universities are thinking about what system will best meet their needs."
Transitioning to Technology Based Instruction
"Marist's Mark Van Dyke navigates higher education's technology maze with the help of the Sakai open source LMS"
UNC Sakai Pilot Evaluation: Results Summary
"When we published the Sakai Pilot Evaluation Final Report, we knew that most people would prefer a visual summary rather than reading the 74-page document or even the Executive Summary."
How course management systems impact teaching
Course management systems, like any other technology, have an inherent purpose implied in their design, and therefore a built–in pedagogy. Although these pedagogies are based on instructivist principles, today’s large CMSs have many features suitable for applying more constructivist pedagogies.
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