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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."
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."
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"
Epsilen : Epsilen ePortfolio
"Fully integrated into the eLearning environment, this innovative module lets educators and students store a wide array of materials to showcase performance and progress—an ever-changing collection of multimedia artifacts, course-created materials, blogs, discussions and wikis.
Faculty can meet students in their digital world and profoundly change the way they teach. Students can take their complete ePortfolio with them upon graduation and add to it indefinitely during further education and throughout their career. "
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."
ATutor Learning Content Management System
"ATutor is an Open Source Web-based Learning Content Management System (LCMS/LMS) and social networking environment designed with accessibility and adaptability in mind. Administrators can install or update ATutor in minutes, develop custom themes to give ATutor a new look, and easily extend its functionality with feature modules. Educators can quickly assemble, package, and redistribute Web-based instructional content, easily import prepackaged content, and conduct their courses online. Students learn in an adaptive, social learning environment."
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.
Blackboard’s Response to Open Source: Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt
"As I noted recently, the University of North Carolina (a Blackboard customer) reported highly favorable results of their pilot study of Sakai, with an outcome of further investigation into Sakai as a full replacement of Blackboard as their primary LMS. It turns out that this was following on the heels of a similar study done by the North Carolina Community College system favorably comparing Moodle to Blackboard."
Confidence Based Learning May Reduce The Time It Takes To Learn
According to confidence-based learning, the best time to learn is immediately after a test when doubt and misinformation have been exposed. If confidence-based learning is incorporated into courseware-builder, the speed of learning can be increased dramatically--by as much as 50% or even more.
3akai Round Two
Some of the graphics here are meant to be suggestive rather than precise (e.g. the lines of connection between types of users aren’t meant to show specific relationships), but if you don’t harp on the detail it’s a nice sweep of the ecosystem.
The ECAR Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology, 2009
Since 2004, the annual ECAR Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology has sought to shed light on how information technology affects the college experience. We ask students about the technology they own and how they use it in and out of their academic world. We gather information about how skilled students believe they are with technologies; how they perceive technology is affecting their learning experience; and their preferences for IT in courses. The ECAR Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology, 2009 is a longitudinal extension of the 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008 studies. It is based on quantitative data from a spring 2009 survey of 30,616 freshmen and seniors at 103 four-year institutions and students at 12 two-year institutions; student focus groups that included input from 62 students at 4 institutions; and review of qualitative data from written responses to open-ended questions. In addition to studying student ownership, experience, behaviors, preferences, and skills with respect to information technologies, the 2009 study also includes a special focus on student ownership and use of Internet-capable handheld devices.
Sakai Admin Guide - Load Balancing and Scaling
"Although Sakai can be run on a single server which houses all database and filesystem content, many sites will want to consider growing their installation beyond the confines of a single server"
UF Adopts Sakai to be New E-Learning System
"After an 8-month evaluation process, the University of Florida has selected the open source Sakai course management system to be the new course management system. By choosing an open source system, UF joins a growing trend among colleges and universities."
UNC Chapel Hill - Sakai Pilot Final Report available
"We are pleased to announce that the Sakai Pilot Final Report is available for your review! The 74-page PDF (3.2 MB) provides a wealth of data collected during Fall 2008 and Spring 2009."
Could Google Wave Replace Course-Management Systems?
"Google argues that its new Google Wave system could replace e-mail by blending instant messaging, wikis, and image and document sharing into one seamless communication interface. But some college professors and administrators are more excited about Wave's potential to be a course-management-system killer."
Course Evaluations at U. of Maryland
"Course evaluations are a part of the process by which the University of Maryland seeks to improve teaching and learning. The University Senate approved the implementation of a standard, online, University-wide course evaluation instrument. Each course evaluation contains a set of universal questions, and some are supplemented by questions from specific colleges."
Virginia Tech Single-Form Portfolio
"This template was an attempt at improving the user's experience in creating multiple forms that would end up as pages of their ePortfolios. We needed a template that provided a flxed number of tabs (this one has six) but has an infinite number of secondary navigation pages. This portfolio is set up as a "resume"-style template, but can easily be customized for different purposes."
The State of the LMS: An Institutional Perspective
This is not one of those predict-the-demise or predict-the-next-flux-capacitor presentations, though. It’s just an excellent, down-to-earth institutional view of how LMS adoption is going in the real world and what the challenges are, especially for large university consortia.
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