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2. 2 Carl Berger NlII Spring Focus: SAKAI Live: More than a course tool!

3. 3 SAKAI LIVE SAKAI available (up to version 1.5, 2 due soon) (open source, of course) Michigan implementation called CTools Version 1.0 serving ~20,000 students Courses, Research projects, Student support and… a personal work space! Community sharing, supporting and building

4. 4 Michigan implementation Open pilot quickly spread. All new courses on Ctools Stop old system this fall (based on Lotus notes) Lots of courses, but even more research projects and community projects Open to others (need guest account.)

5. 5 See at: www.ctools.umich.edu

6. 6 Inside a course (Econ 101) List of those online Can select tools screens and placement Still, looks quite 'standard' Easy for faculty to migrate

7. 7 Research projects (Apple iPod) Can be used for research projects Others outside the university Completely tailor site Very popular

8. 8 Even more exciting… Gradtool projects Progress check list Interactive with grad school and registrars office Easily used by other universities

9. 9 Now… some background and how you can become involved Well funded Involve others through the SAKAI Educational Partners Program Download product Commitment (minimal) Next slides show more detail For more information see www.sakaiproject.org Thanks!

10. 10 SAKAI Project (Synchronized Architecting of Knowledge Acquisition Infrastructure) Sakai is delivering open source CMS and research collaboration modules that are completely portable and interchangeable in web and non-web Java environments Deliverables: –Enterprise Services-based Portal –a complete Course Management System with assessment tools –Research Support Collaboration System –Tool Portability Profile Tool (i.e., clear standard for writing future tools that can extend this core set of educational applications) –Community (i.e., development, implementation and support) U Michigan, Indiana U, MIT, Stanford, uPortal, OKI Mellon Foundation supporting development effort Hewlett Foundation for Sakai Educational Partners Program (so far, 60@10kx3years--goal 200) Goal – interchangeable tools, components built at different places all work together and implemented at different institutions

11. 11 Jan 04 July 04May 05 Michigan CHEF Framework CourseTools WorkTools Indiana Navigo Assessment Eden Workflow Oncourse MIT Stellar Stanford CourseWork Assessment OKI OSIDs uPortal SAKAI 1.0 Release Tool Portability Profile Framework Services-based Portal Refined OSIDs & implementations SAKAI Tools Complete CMS Assessment SAKAI 2.0 Release Tool Portability Profile Framework Services-based Portal SAKAI Tools Complete CMS Assessment Workflow Research Tools Authoring Tools Dec 05 Activity: Maintenance & Transition from a project to a community SAKAI Overview

12. 12 SAKAI Educational Partners Program Objectives actively develop a large, self-sustaining community of institutions that share the Sakai Project’s open source vision carry on a discussion of strategic directions for the Sakai Project as it emerges and evolves, provide a Sakai Project roadmap describing the timing and features for Sakai software releases, provide in depth developer and adopter training, develop a leveraged support infrastructure of a common (or locally implemented) knowledgebase, and helpdesk mobilize distributed resources for development and support of Sakai tools, provide a marketplace for the sharing and exchange of Sakai-based tools/components, facilitate purposeful interaction with the Sakai Core development team, coordinate activities with other organizations, such as, IMS or country-level agencies, facilitate Sakai community sharing of best practices in development, implementation, and support.