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Scott Siddall June10, 2013

Scott Siddall June10, 2013. Sakai CLE The Collaboration & Learning Environment for and by higher education

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Scott Siddall

June10, 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.