Scott Siddall June10, 2013
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Scott SiddallJune10, 2013
Sakai CLE
The Collaboration & Learning Environment for and by higher education
What is Sakai CLE?
• Open source software that’s not ‘owned’ by anyone• Community software used by millions of students• Sakai is not Longsight’s product• Sakai is created and sustained by leaders in higher ed
– Stanford, Michigan, Indiana– Duke, NYU, Columbia, UNC….many more
• You’re free to use it, improve it, share it• Make the best of your peers’ contributions
What is Sakai CLE?
• Sakai CLE is what you make of it.• Do a little
– Templated courses, prescribed instructor choices– Make it easy to use
• Do a lot– Develop new tools, integrations– Contribute to the Sakai community
• It’s always your choice– You and your peers “own” Sakai CLE– You control your future with Sakai CLE
Sakai is a flexible framework
Not just a box to fill with content (but it could be)
What is Sakai CLE?
Content Management
ePortfolios
Learning Workflow
Communication
Analytics
Pedagogically rich
Your faculty can realize almost anypedagogical vision
Example: hybrid or fully online course
Resources
Content Management
Communication
Learning Workflow
What is Sakai CLE?
CitationHelper
Podcasts
Syllabus
Web Content
News Feed
Announcements
Messages
Forums
Assignments
Tests & Quizzes
Lecture capture
Gradebook
Tools
…or a site for small group collaboration
Content Management
Resources
Communications
Announcements
Messages
Blog
Wiki
Chat Room
What is Sakai CLE?
Even richer as a scaffold for best of breed services
as well as
Sakai native tools
Content Management
ePortfolios
Learning Workflow
Communication
Resources
VoiceThread
Assignments
Google Drive
Sakai ePortfolios
Tegrity lecture capture
Piazza
Mahara
What is Sakai CLE?
Forums
Excellent products
Proprietary development and code; slower to change
Costs can be high; include substantial licensing & marketing costs
Meets the needs of the market defined by shareholders
Support and code development are exclusive to one vendor
Commercial LMSExcellent products
Open development and code; rapidly evolving
Lower total costs of access and integration
Meets the needs of the market defined by stakeholders (IHE)
Support and code development are unbundled – competitive support
Open source LMS
Commercial vs. Open
“…the LMS decision is now more about choosing a path than product.”
-Brad Wheeler, Indiana University
Ownership and open source
• Each campus has dedicated instances. – High cost of modification. – Closed development. – One vendor.
• One shared instance, constantly updated.– “Open source” but closed development (no community). – One vendor who reaps all benefits of “open source.”
• Truly open, community source. – Low cost to modify, extend, customize, evolve. – Many vendors for support. – Campus completely owns and controls their LMS destiny.– Benefits to campuses, not vendors.
With your student information systemAutomated course site creationEnrollment management
With campus authentication servicesNo change in account management
With third-party applicationsWeb conferencingPlagiarism detectionClickersEquation editorsMedia archivesRespondus Lockdown BrowserGoogle DriveMany more…..
IMS Global standards (LTI, LIS)
Integration
Faculty-driven enhancements to Sakai CLE
Case Study
Programming effortEnhancements to the Sakai CLE Gradebook: Drop highest and/or lowest score 50 hoursExtra credit option 25 hoursExtra credit category for weighted grade books 13 hours Enhancements to the Sakai CLE Forums tool: Sort Discussion Forum threads 6 hoursStart and end dates on Forum topics 12 hoursWord count in Forums tool 8 hours Interface for grading forums 35 hoursPost before read requirement 14 hours Other enhancements: Add BCC to Messages tool 5 hoursList scheduled assessments in Calendar automatically 6 hours Create User Activity tool for financial aid reporting 14 hours
Case Study
- Less than $18,000 one-time cost, funded by the campus CIO - Six months from faculty request to completion
- Faculty response was immediate and positive - All enhancements contributed to the community release of Sakai 2.9 - The Sakai community maintains these enhancements through
subsequent upgrades
Case Study
Continuous advancement of Sakai CLE is driven by stakeholders in education
- Less than $18,000 one-time cost, funded by the campus CIO - Six months from faculty request to completion
- Faculty response was immediate and positive - All enhancements contributed to the community release of Sakai 2.9 - The Sakai community maintains these enhancements through
subsequent upgrades
Case Study
• State university with 11,000 users
• Cloud offerings (multi-tenant, shared):– Canvas $205,000/yr– Blackboard $200,000/yr– Desire2Learn $110,000/yr– Moodlerooms $ 91,000/yr
• Dedicated commercial hosting and support:– Sakai $ 62,000/yr
• Self-hosted with commercial support:– Blackboard $159,000/yr– Desire2Learn $104,000/yr– Sakai $ 89,000/yr
Case study of operating costs
What distinguishes Longsight from
others?
- Hosting and supporting Sakai CLE and precursors since 2002
- Agile, higher-ed-experienced team
Columbia UniversityDuke UniversityLoyola University ChicagoMiami UniversityNew York UniversityPepperdine UniversityWashington & Lee University
Texas Tech University Health Science CenterWestern University (Ontario)University of BaltimoreIthaca CollegeSt. Lawrence UniversityWellesley CollegeSeminole State College of Florida
Support for large and small institutions:
About Longsight
Longsight’s Role
• Ensure that our clients get the most out of community source software
• Comprehensive support 24 x 7• Direct access to Sakai experts• World-class hosting; 100% uptime SLA• Customizations, integrations, development• Training, design consultation• Fully open exit strategy; no lock-in
Sakai CLE and OSU goals
Sakai CLE is a flexible and extensible framework for • faculty innovation• best practices• building out any pedagogical vision
Frequent feedback
• Notifications and messaging• Detailed control over assessment feedback• Model answers
Frequent interactions
• Full support for flipped classroom (resources and recorded lectures, discussion forums).
• Profile for connections within institution; manifested in tools such as Forums, rosters
• Fine-grained control over messaging such as course-based lists• Wide range of grouping options: ad hoc groups and sections
with course tools that recognize groups• Group assignment submissions and grading• Guest access• Project sites
Flexible and adaptive
• Leverage Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences through Sakai’s highly flexible framework– research data: one full grade improvement from
placement testing then appropriate accommodation
• Adaptive sequencing through Lessons (formative assessment, conditional release)
• Integration of Knewton or Smart Sparrow
Active learning
• Instructors’ design option that is fully supported by Sakai
• Content authoring is distributed to all roles (can be limited)
• Individual and group problem solving (assignment tied to discussions) collaborative writing (wiki), group-based eportfolios (peer review)
• Peer assessments by NYU
Clear expectations
• Model answers• Eportfolio rubrics• Rubrics as integrated service• Flexible syllabus tool• Checklist tool for tracking progress
Teaching for transfer, integration
• Eportfolio artifacts derive from any experience in Sakai; promotes reflection and evaluation beyond the course
Fosters reflection, metacognition
• Faculty can sequence content and activities through Lessons
• User activity reports; notifications to advisement
• Learning analytics and outcomes/progress communicated to learners (in development)
Reliable and consistent
• UX community for consistency• Enterprise, scalable application - Longsight’s
100% uptime SLA• Not a multi-tenant cloud-based application that
can fail globally• System-wide outages are extremely rare; failure
in a tool is contained• Content and application are separated; patching
takes minutes; upgrades take < 2 hrs
Fill in gaps
• Course sites for placement testing• Just-in-time resources for both technology and
subject materials
http://trysakai.longsight.com
Explore Sakai CLE for free
Thank you.