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Sakai Update
Suzanne ThorinDean of University Libraries, Indiana University
James L. HiltonAssociate Provost, University of Michigan
Around the middle of 2003…
Indiana, Stanford, MIT and U Michigan had all developed learning management systems, which were approaching EOL, and were talking internally about NG systems
The Open Knowledge Initiative (OKI) at MIT was developing APIs for learning management systems - involving many universities (UMichigan, IndianaU, Stanford, and MIT were all strong participants)
Java Community Process (JCP) produced JSR-168 - The “unified” portal standard API
Oasis developed the Web Services for Remote Portals (WSRP) standard
The open-source uPortal portal project had quietly moved into the #1 open source portal (#4 including commercial vendors) position
Why we went down the Sakai path
Legacy system with no positive trajectory forward Saw market consolidation in CMS Saw the potential of tapping core competence and starting
a virtuous cycle of development/teaching/research Strategic desire to blur the distinction between the
laboratory/classroom between knowledge creation/digestion
NRC report and the need for collaboration A moment in time opportunity (Mellon and synchronization) Leverage links between open source, open access and
culture of the academy/wider world
The Sakai Project
The University of Michigan, MIT, Stanford, Indiana University, and now over 45 other universities have joined in an international effort to develop the next generation of software infrastructure and tools to support research and teaching.
Complete Course Management System Research Support Collaboration System, Enterprise Services-based Portal,
What is SAKAI?
Sakai ≠ Course Management System Sakai = Collaboration & Learning Environment
Use for teaching/learning/research and many other online group activities.
Portal
Staff 1 Student
DiscussionForum
Middle East News Feed
DiscussionForum
ResourceManagement
Collaborative Project Portlet
ASUC Middle East Discussion Portlet
Staff 2 Staff 3 Student Student
Supporting the ClassSupporting the Class
Supporting the LabSupporting the Lab
Bringing the lab to the classroom
Bringing the lab to the classroom
Sakai Project Core Universities Each of the 4 Core Universities Commits
5+ developers/architects, etc. under Sakai Board project direction for 2 years
Public commitment to implement Sakai Open/Open licensing – “Community Source”
So, overall project levels $4.4M in institutional staff (27 FTE) $2.4M Mellon, $300K Hewlett Additional investment through partners
Sakai Project Timeline
Michigan•CHEF Framework•CourseTools•WorkTools
Indiana•Navigo Assessment•Eden Workflow•OneStart•Oncourse
MIT•Stellar
Stanford•CourseWork•Assessment
OKI•OSIDs
uPortal
Sakai 2.0 Release•TPP•Framework•Services-based Portal
Sakai Tools•Complete CMS•Assessment•Workflow•Research Tools•Authoring Tools
Primary Sakai ActivityRefining Sakai Framework,
Tuning and conforming additional toolsIntensive community building/training
Activity: Ongoing implementation work at local institution…
Jan 04 July 04 May 05 Dec 05
Activity: Maintenance &
Transition from aproject to
a communitySakai 1.0 Release•Tool Portability Profile•Framework•Services-based Portal•Refined OSIDs & implementations
Sakai Tools•Complete CMS•Assessment
Primary Sakai ActivityArchitecting for JSR-168 Portlets and
Web Services for Remote Portals (WSRP) standard Re-factoring “best of” features for tools
Conforming tools to Technology Portability Profile
170 attend Partner’s Conf
Sakai Project DeliverablesWorking Code – CMS/CLE- Collaboration and Learning Environment
– Sakai 1.0• Course management system – core tools plus
• Quizzing and assessment tools, [ePortfolio from OSPI], etc
• Research collaboration system• Portal (uPortal 2.3, 3.x)
Modular tools - also pre-integrated to work out of the boxTool Portability Profile
• Specifications for writing portable software to achieve application ‘code mobility’ among institutions – modular tools and services
Synchronized development, adoptions at Michigan, Indiana, MIT, Stanford – Sakai 1.0 is the next generation for CourseWork, CHEF, Oncourse, Stellar
In production useWith >22,000 users at U Michigan
Limited Pilot at IU now…FullPilot in January
Integration of Contentand Services:Still More than One Click Away
Suzanne E. ThorinUniversity Dean of Libraries and Associate Vice President for Digital Library DevelopmentIndiana UniversityDecember 7, 2004
2003 Campus Computing Project
94% of colleges and universities were using one or more commercial courseware systems
40% of the courses being taught were using courseware tools
Current developments: Open access online learning environment E-portfolios Portals Content management systems Student information systems
Academic Technology Environment
“Why IT Has Not Paid Off As We Had Hoped (Yet)”
Authors: Edward L. Ayers Charles M. Grisham
http://www.itc.virginia.edu/virginia.edu/spring04/hope.htm
Academic Technology Environment
“American higher education has created a doughnut IT infrastructure: all periphery and no center.” (Ayers/Grisham)
Sakai Partners andSEPP Members
Sakai Project Founders Indiana University JA-SIG MIT OKI Stanford University University of Michigan
ARL SEPP Members: Arizona State University Brown University Columbia University Cornell University Dartmouth Georgetown University Harvard University Johns Hopkins University New York University Northwestern University
Ohio State University Princeton University State University of New York University of Arizona University of California, Berkeley University of California, Davis University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Santa
Barbara University of Colorado at Boulder University of Delaware University of Hawaii University of Illinois, Urbana-
Champaign University of Oklahoma University of Texas, Austin University of Virginia University of Washington University of Wisconsin, Madison Yale University
Partners and Cultures
Why should we do this and why do it together?
Digital Journals and Books
University of Michigan
Humanities Text Initiative
Digital Text
University of Virginia
Thomas Jefferson Digital Archive
University of Iowa and University of Nebraska
Walt Whitman Archive
Digital Images
Duke University
Papyrus Archive
Indiana University
Charles W. Cushman Photograph Collection
Sheet Music
Indiana University
Sheet Music Collection
Music Scores
Indiana University
Cook Music Library
Geographical & Numerical Data
Modified crime index (crime index and arson)Absolute number
Areaname 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995
Alameda, CA 96,108 108,283 109,500 109,680 105,005 62,487
Alpine, CA 149 81 132 176 211 154
Amador, CA 721 776 776 852 840 831
Butte, CA 8,852 9,150 10,184 9,618 10,522 9,974
Calaveras, CA 1,092 1,089 1,238 1,153 1,210 1,663
Colusa, CA 572 701 657 657 678 628
Contra Costa, CA 48,614 51,772 50,932 50,575 50,535 46,549
Del Norte, CA 1,043 963 986 1,090 1,267 1,521
El Dorado, CA 4,945 5,180 5,205 5,222 5,481 5,256
Fresno, CA 55,409 62,592 64,220 61,286 66,457 66,671
Glenn, CA 851 866 969 1,079 1,231 1,272
Humboldt, CA 5,958 5,800 6,514 7,814 9,290 9,253
Imperial, CA 8,374 8,160 8,877 8,681 8,445 8,167
Inyo, CA 731 706 593 570 736 770
Kern, CA 35,736 37,235 38,124 39,622 39,616 35,964
Environment Complexities
“Digital Library Content and Course Management Systems:Issues of Interoperation,”
Report of a study group
Co-Chairs: Dale Flecker, Associate Director for Planning
& Systems, Harvard University Library Neil McLean, Director, IMS Australia
http://www.diglib.org/pubs/cmsdl0407/
Current Efforts
IMS Learning Global Consortium
http://www.imsglobal.org/
http://www.diglib.org/aquifer/index.htm
Creating Content “At various points, they write, leading professional,
corporate, and philanthropic organizations have stepped up to the partner with teachers and students. . . But there is still a disappointing lack of support for digital materials for teaching and scholarship. In general, reference materials, textbook ancillary. . . Teaching modules are being produced in a sort of desktop-publishing model. . . Individual faculty, but no group is working with faculty and academic leaders to create content that faculty will respect as real aids in teaching and scholarship. . . The massive investment in networks and computers will not pay off until we fill in the hole, until we work together to create content.” (Ayers/Grisham)
--Dale Flecker and Neil McLean, “Digital Library Content and Course Management Systems: Issues of Interoperation”
Bibliography Ayers, Edward L. and Charles M. Grisham. “Why IT Has Not
Paid Off As We Had Hoped (Yet),” virginia.edu, (Spring 2004), http://www.itc.virginia.edu/virgnia.edu/spring04/hope.htm.
Bell, Stephen J. and John D. Shank. “Linking the Library to Courseware: A Strategic Alliance to Improve Learning Outcomes,” Library Issues, 25:2 (November 2004): 1-4.
Duncan, Jim. “Convergence of Libraries, Digital Repositories, and Web Content Management,” Educause Review, 39:6 (November/December 2004), http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/DEC0401.pdf.
Flecker, Dale and Neil McLean. “Digital Library Content and Course Management Systems: Issues of Interoperation” Report of a Study Group. Digital Library Federation (July 2004), http://www.diglib.org/pubs/cmsdl0407/.
McLean, Neil and Clifford Lynch. “Interoperability between Information and Learning Environments—Bridging the Gaps.” A Joint White Paper on behalf of the IMS Global Learning Consortium and the Coalition for Networked Information, (June 2003), http://www.imsglobal.org/DLims_white_paper_publicdraft_1.pdf.
Persons, Jerry C. Unpublished Digital Library Federation Aquifer report.
Demo Sites
Sakai - Collab.sakaiproject.org – running Sakai 1.0 system; open
Sakaiproject.org – open info site; gateway to DGs and public forums
Ctools – can get login if you want to evaluate and see production system; very similar to collab.sakaiproject.org