Sakai CLE Courseware Management电子书

Sakai CLE Courseware Management

Table of Contents

Sakai CLE Courseware Management

Credits

Foreword

The Sakai Community

Educational Community License

The Sakai Foundation

Change is the norm

Getting started

About the Authors

About the Reviewers

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. What is Sakai?

Sakai tools

The Sakai Foundation

Sakai worksite

The community

Branches

Workgroups

Developers

Rogues Gallery

Sakai's academic background

A brief history

The Java-based tool creation

Sakai 1.0

Present day

What's Next? — The Sakai open academic environment

Advantages for organizations

Summary

2. Feet First: Running the Demo

Installing the demo

Administrator's account

Expanding the demo

Help is your friend

Live demos

Building from the source

Summary

3. Sakai 2.x Anatomy

The Sakai framework

The aggregation layer

The presentation layer

The tools layer

The services layer

Core technologies

How Sakai is deployed at scale

Load balancing

Frontend servers

Database preferences

The Java Virtual Machine

Enterprise data integration

Sakai OAE anatomy

Architectural overview

Client-side anatomy ("3akai-ux")

Nakamura server-side anatomy ("Nakamura")

Summary

4. My First Site

Tool-specific help

Managing project sites

Browsing the demonstration

Site creation

Creating a course site

Tools of immediate value

Maintaining your site details

Starter tips

Descriptions are important

Password strength

The motivation for sections

Creating sections

Summary

5. Enterprise Bundle Tools and Quality Assurance

Using Core tools in Sakai 2.6

Core tools since Sakai 2.6

From Contrib to Provisional

Stealthily to Core

Enterprise-level quality

The Quality Assurance process

QA leads

Maintenance releases

Automated testing

Automatic code analysis

Summary

6. Worksite Tools

Creating flashcards

Commonalities between tools

The Resources tool

Using course tools together

The context

Making a communication plan

Placing Content

Assessing individual students

Introducing Portfolios

Towards OSP integration in Sakai OAE

Summary

7. Contributed Tools

An apology of sorts

The range of contributed tools

Sponsoring creativity

Pros and cons

A list of tools

Example deployments

The University of Michigan

Interview with David Haines, Senior Developer at Michigan

The University of Cape Town

Creating tools

Building tools

SASH

Interview with Steven Githens, the force behind SASH

Summary

8. Putting Sakai to Work

The tools and structure of a Sakai site

Sakai's site structure

My Workspace

The Home tool contents

The basic collaboration tools

Site administration

The basic teaching and learning tools

Types of Sakai sites

Problem-based courses

Small discussion courses

Large introductory courses

Project-based courses

Collaboration sites

Building your Home page

Check out the new look

Edit your page

Replace the site description

Customize the Home page

Ready to roll

Summary

9. The Administration Workspace

What is a Sakai administrator?

The Administration tool set

Basic concepts

Internal ID

Java

Realms

sakai.properties

An interview with Anthony Atkins

Summary

10. Web Services: Connecting to the Enterprise

Protocols

Playing with Telnet

Installing TCPMON

Requests and returned status codes

SOAP

JSON

REST

Existing web services

Recapping terminology

Default web services

Sakai and SOAP

My first web service

My first client

A more realistic client example

Entity Broker

Finding descriptions of services

Authenticating

A client-side coding example

Interview with author Aaron Zeckoski, the author of Entity Broker

WSRP

Summary

11. Tips from the Trenches

The benefits of knowing that frameworks exist

Using the third-party frameworks

The benefit of using Spring

Hibernate for database coupling

The many Apache frameworks

Looking at dependencies

An expanded tour of Java

Introduction

Profiling using JMX

The Apache web server

Migration

Migrating course content

A bit of history

Enabling LMS content import

A note about IMS Common Cartridge

Using "Import from File"

Interviews at the deep end

Megan May

Seth Theriault

David Howitz

Summary

12. Understanding Common Error Messages

A policy of containment of errors

Reporting

Quality Assurance analysis

Production systems

Configuring logging

Common error messages

Java version

Port issues

Out of memory

The portal

The database

Search

sakai.properties

File permissions

Class not found

Information sources

Summary

13. Show Cases

Acknowledgements

CamTools: Using Sakai to support teaching and learning in a research-intensive university

About the authors

CamTools: Sakai at the University of Cambridge

Evidence-informed approaches to virtual learning environment development: the case of Plant Sciences

New directions

Sakai @ the University of Amsterdam

About the author

About the University

E-learning

The SURF Foundation

UvA communities — a Sakai collaboration environment

Web Klassen

Conflict Studies

IIS Communities

The Hague Forum for Judicial Expertise

Project site

Testweeklab

Digital Portfolio — a different use case

Why Sakai?

University of Michigan

Sakai success story

Transforming the education experience

Supporting the dissertation process

Streamlining academic administration

Future directions

UFP-UV: UFP in the Sakai project

Abstract

Introduction

Sakai usage, full adoption

The current Sakai skin at UFP

The UFP tools

Sakai usage at UFP

Concurrent users during January 2006 — January 2007

September 2006 — September 2007

Up to September, 2007

Marist College and Sakai

Background

The commercial partner implementation model

Migrating a campus to Sakai

Tangible outcomes

rSmart

Overview

History

Easy to adopt

Easy to try

Crossing the border into research: A case study of students' engagement with a virtual research environment

About the authors

Background

Tutor engagement

Data collection

Student engagement

Key themes

Conclusions and recommendations

SOLO — Taking e-learning offline

About the author

Background

Internet bandwidth and cost

North-West University (South Africa)

How Solo works

The LAMP Consortium — like a bundle of sticks

About the author

Introducing the project

Award winning

Winning factors

The LAMP experience

Criminology — a distance course in Sakai

About the authors

The Department of Criminology

Description of the distance course

Experiences — Lessons learned

Clarifying the structure of a course

The importance of the group

The social space

The absence of feedback

The need of support

Future development

Conclusion

Summary

14. Innovating Teaching and Learning with Sakai

The Teaching with Sakai Innovation Award

Case studies from the winner's circle

2008's First place winner: Biomedical Engineering (University of Michigan, USA)

Course description

Course development and delivery

Collaboration and communication

Learning materials

Learning outcomes and assessment

Course's look and feel, web usability

Learner support

Teaching innovation

Interactions with subject matter experts

Interactions with the instructor and curriculum

Interactions with content

Interactions with peers

Innovation snapshot: Forensic science goes online

Project overview

How Sakai was used

Implications for Teaching and Learning

Lesson learned

2008's Second place winner: International Law (University of Cape Town, South Africa)

Course description

Course development and delivery

Collaboration and communication

Learning outcomes and assessment

Course's look & feel, web usability

Learner support

Teaching innovation

Interactions with subject-matter experts

Interactions with peers

Interactions with content

Innovation Snapshot: Facebook meets history

Project overview

How Sakai was used

Impact on teaching and learning

Lessons learned

Conclusions

Passive versus active learning

Teacher-centered versus student-centered learning

Less innovative versus more innovative uses of tools

Summary

15. A Crib Sheet for Selling Sakai to Traditional Management

Introduction

Context

The University's IT department

The challenges of a shared service center

Educational systems and administrative systems

Open source at the IC

Introduction

Success with uPortal and CAS

Sakai on the fringes

Sakai at UvA

An interview with the director

Summary

16. Participating in the Sakai Community

The Sakai Foundation

Consensus building

The Foundation acting as the legal home

Partnering up

The community

DoOcracy

Transparent communication

Conferences

Collab - Mailing Lists

Work Groups

Asynchronous communication

Open code, Open Standards

The QA network

The risk of information loss

The current wish list

Summary

17. Looking Ahead: Sakai OAE

Early experiments and functional principles

Sakai OAE

Managing the project to build the new environment

Educators' input

Summary

A. Terminology

B. Resources

Sakai Foundation support

The community

Best practices

Training material

Tools

Index