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Implementing Sakai – Factors to Consider and Roadmaps to Success

Sayeed Choudhury – Johns Hopkins University

Jeshua Pacifici – Virginia Tech

Doug Gouldin – Unicon, Inc.

Implementing SakaiFactors to Consider and Roadmaps to Success

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Sayeed Choudhury – Johns Hopkins University

Jeshua Pacifici – Virginia Tech

Doug Gouldin – Unicon, Inc.

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Agenda

•Introductions•What is Sakai?•Why Sakai?•Factors to consider•Roadmaps to Success•Notable Implementations•The Johns Hopkins Story•How Unicon can help•Q & A

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Agenda

•Introductions•What is Sakai?•Why Sakai?•Factors to consider•Roadmaps to Success•Notable Implementations•The Johns Hopkins Story•How Unicon can help•Q & A

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About Unicon…

Our Vision:

To be recognized as the leading independent provider of portal and learning technologies to the Educational market.

Unicon– Over 100 employees– Over 2 million users have

experienced Unicon solutions

Focus is Higher EducationTechnologies

– Enterprise Collaborative Portals– Web Content Management Solution– Learning Management Systems– Content and Assessment Authoring and Delivery software

Open source involvement– Leading commercial supporter of uPortal – Sakai Commercial Affiliate

Our Vision:To be recognized as the leading independent provider of portal and learning technologies to the Educational market.

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About Unicon…

Unicon’s Current Sakai Clients:

• UC Merced

• IDEAL/State of Arizona

• Foothill – ETUDES*

• Trinity University

• UNC TLTC*

• Major Publishers*

• UC Davis* In partnership with Optimized Learning Incorporated

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Agenda

•Introductions•What is Sakai?•Why Sakai?•Factors to consider•Roadmaps to Success•Notable Implementations•The Johns Hopkins Story•How Unicon can help•Q & A

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• Sakai is a community source software development effort to design, build and deploy a new Collaboration Learning Environment

• Alternative to proprietary and home-grown course management solutions

Features:

Gateway

Gradebook

Home

My Workspace

Melete Lesson Builder

OSP

Resources

Administrative Tools

Announcements

Assignments

Chat Room

Discussion

Drop Box

Email Archive

What is Sakai?

Sakai News

Schedule

Site Info

Tests and Quizzes

Web Content

Worksite Setup

Syllabus

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What is Sakai - Background

• Collaborative effort between University of Michigan, Indiana University, Stanford, Berkeley and MIT

• Funding from the Andrew Mellon Foundation January 2004 through December 2005

•Community• Sakai Educational Partners Program

(SEPP) is a for-fee community that is open to educational institutions

• Sakai Commercial Affiliates (SCA) are commercial firms that offer for-fee support and expertise for the Sakai

Project's community source software.

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What is Sakai - Current State

• v2.0 Released June 2005; v2.0.1 Released August 2005

• v2.1 Released December 2005

• V2.2 Penciled in for July 15, 2006

• 86 SP Institutions

• 12 Sakai Commercial Affiliates

• 25 pilots officially planned for 2006

• Many others planned…

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What is Sakai? – From an IU Presentation

Community Source Development Effort

Initial Grant Funded Partners

88 SEPP Institutions

12 SCA’s

Sakai Foundation

Sakai Project Conferences

2.1 Release

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Agenda

•Introductions•What is Sakai?•Why Sakai?•Factors to consider•Roadmaps to Success•Notable Implementations•The Johns Hopkins Story•How Unicon can help•Q & A

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Why Sakai?

• Meeting the needs of faculty and students

• How are needs or expectations changing?

• Greater choices, seamless access to content and services, multiple media

• Modular, open standards-based architecture

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Why Sakai?

Repositories

E-learning E-portfolio E-publishing Library MS

JHU

Services

InterfaceAuthentication

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Agenda

•Introductions•What is Sakai?•Why Sakai?•Factors to consider•Roadmaps to Success•Notable Implementations•The Johns Hopkins Story•How Unicon can help•Q & A

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Factors to Consider

• Engaging Learning Content, “Experiential”• Multiple Content Formats, Best Fit• Assessments to Measure Progress

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Factors to Consider

• Understand Sakai• Make it clear that Sakai is

somewhat “uncooked”• Sakai is more than courseware• Community• Open Source Paradigms• Costs

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•Introductions•What is Sakai?•Why Sakai?•Factors to consider•Roadmaps to Success•Notable Implementations•The Johns Hopkins Story•How Unicon can help•Q & A

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Roadmaps to Success

• Bring key stakeholders together to identify goals and timelines

• Define your own metrics for success, cognizant of community efforts

• Conduct a Pilot Program• Participate in the Community

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Roadmaps to Success - Stakeholders

• Identify Project Goals and Timelines with:– Program Sponsor– Faculty– IT– Help Desk– Administration

• Engage all along the way• Keep stakeholders apprised of your

successes and those of the community/product

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Roadmaps to Success - Metrics

• Identify the metrics for success– Adoption– Turning off the legacy system– Community involvement– Dollars saved

• Measure against metrics at project checkpoints– Pilot Completion– Different phases of production roll-out

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Roadmaps to Success – Pilot Program

• Conduct a pilot or several pilots• Key faculty

– Friendly and willing to provide honest constructive feedback

• Feedback, Feedback, Feedback• Community

involvement/awareness

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Roadmaps to Success - Community

• Ask for and give help to community

• Attend conferences and developer meetings

• Present your story to the community

• Get involved in Discussion and Working Groups

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Agenda

•Introductions•What is Sakai?•Why Sakai?•Factors to consider•Roadmaps to Success•Notable Implementations•The Johns Hopkins Story•How Unicon can help•Q & A

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Notable Implementations

• University of Michigan– Sakai represents single course

management system on campus– 30,000 plus users

• Indiana– Phased production– Parallel Systems till 2007

• ETUDES - Foothill College– Supports 30 institutions in CA– Hosted by Unicon, Inc.

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Notable Implementations

• Virginia Tech– Conducting Pilot/Preview Now– Production Release – Estimated Fall

2006– Fall 05 – 100 Faculty, 100 Students– Spring 06 – 300 Faculty, 600

Students

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Agenda

•Introductions•What is Sakai?•Why Sakai?•Factors to consider•Roadmaps to Success•Notable Implementations•The Johns Hopkins Story•How Unicon can help•Q & A

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The Johns Hopkins Story

• Library significantly involved in Sakai R&D and pilot efforts

• Rather than a large number of pilot courses, we are focusing on a fewer, (hopefully) deeper efforts

• Good environment for testing Sakai community

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Agenda

•Introductions•What is Sakai?•Why Sakai?•Factors to consider•Roadmaps to Success•Notable Implementations•The Johns Hopkins Story•How Unicon can help•Q & A

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Phase 1 and 2 are an ASP environment for schools to learn about, try, pilot and run their instances of the Sakai Collaborative Learning Environment.

How Unicon can Help – ASP Demo and Pilot

• Test Drive Sakai • Pilot Sakai in an online campus environment

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Phase I - Test Drive Sakai 2.1 -- Free

3rd Party

• View basic Sakai tutorials • Use Sakai tools within your own instructor course worksite • Experience Sakai functionality

Register today!Available 12/15/05

www.sakaitestdrive.com

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Phase II – ASP Pilot Program

• Offer Users a chance to Pilot Sakai with the lowest possible barrier to entry

• Very low cost• 6 month pilot period• Portal Front End• All key Sakai Tools• 3rd Party Integrations

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Tab 1. Information from local institution

Tab 2. Sakai CLE

Tab 3. Tools from Academus

– Collaboration– Organization– Communication

Tab 4. Personal tab

Academus Portal Front End for the ASP Pilot

Tab 5. Push tab – Training, products, services and registration

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How Unicon Can Help

• Test Drive – ASP Model

• Pilots – ASP Model

• Hosted Pilots and Production

• Local Deployments

• Training

• Portal Integration

• Custom Development

• Roadmap Workshop

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Q & A

•Introductions•What is Sakai?•Why Sakai?•Who is involved?•Factors to consider•Roadmaps to Success•The Johns Hopkins Story•How Unicon can help•Q & A