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We have just started!. On forming a Sakai Special Interest Group NL September 7, 2006 1 st European Sakai Day including results of feedback of participants Wytze Koopal http://elearning.surf.nl/sakai http://sakai-nl.blogspot.com. Agenda. Some facts and figures from NL - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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On forming a Sakai Special Interest Group NL
September 7, 20061st European Sakai Day
including results of feedback of participants
Wytze Koopalhttp://elearning.surf.nl/sakai http://sakai-nl.blogspot.com
We have just started!
Agenda
• Some facts and figures from NL
• Some (personal) viewpoints
• Some context
• Sakai SIG NL
• (Some) Discussion
• What’s next?
Dutch facts and figures
• VLE in primary and secondary education: very fragmented market
• Higher Ed: large market share of Blackboard (~ 50 %), plus local players
• HE: Total of ~60 institutions, 500 k students
• Within HE: some 3-5 institutions that are evaluating Sakai
• Some commercial interests in Sakai…
Sakai at our institutions
• Amsterdam (University of Amsterdam and VU)• University of Twente• Utrecht• Rotterdam• Saxion• Stoas & Hotelschool The Hague• Leidse OnderwijsInstellingen (LOI)• 3TU: TU Delft & TU Eindhoven
Some viewpoints - 1• There is a lot of discussion in NL about VLE’s
recently etc• But: there is lack of information regarding
– open source / open standards, and– how to move forward– how to collaborate (really!)
• Although: 80% of our (administrative) processes are the same….[mainly based on thorough legislation]
• But: we are ‘direct’ competitors in certain ways
Some viewpoints - 2
• ICT in Education: NL HE sector is very well organized; thanks to SURF (http://www.surf.nl/en)
• SURF is really active on the forefront of innovation, for example:– NL standards community (http://elearning.surf.nl/six)
– E-framework– Studielink (http://www.studielink.nl)
– Elearning research programme (http://www.surf.nl/elr)
– NL portfolio community (http://elearning.surf.nl/portfolio)
– Sakai community (http://elearning.surf.nl/sakai)
Some context
• More and more interaction (quite recent) between SIS and VLE ‘specialists’
• SURF has formed Sakai SIG NL (more on this in a minute)
• SURF is more and more involved in e-framework (close collaboration with JISC)
• Almost no fuzz (or ‘spin’) regarding Blackboard patent in NL
What is Sakai SIG NL?
• Informal, virtual community, started in July 2006
• Coordinator (1 day/week, this is me)• Work plan: communication,
communication, exchange of experiences• Website / weblog: just to inform those that
do not know (yet)• Just getting started: focus of different
member institutions of different subjects
1st results Sakai SIG NL
• There is more to Sakai than programming! There is– QA (UvA)– General requirements for tools (Resources,– Requirements for OSP– European (Dutch) requirements: Bologna, Lisbon
(see Portier, Koch & Oldsjö)– Localization & Internationalization (I18N & L10N)– …
Challenges Sakai SIG NL
• Lurking… ?!• Them (US) and we: there is no they!• Lack of knowledge of Open
Source/Access/Standards• Not invented here• Is there a longterm leadership
commitment on institutional level?: relationship with strategic plans of our institution
Discussion
• Take a look at http://www.sakai-pilot.utwente.nl/sakaiwiki/european_dutch_enhancements (also on handouts)
• Divide in 4 or 5 groups• Ask yourself (and take 5 minutes):
– What’s missing on this list? I need at least one item from every group
– What should have high priority? Only 3 please – Are you willing and able to work on it?– Who will (wants to) be ‘owner’ of this list (or a
subset) ?
Result: What is missing on the list?
• Regarding the Dutch community: we need a sort of roadmap (what are reasons that will result in management buyin)
• Migration support (how to migrate from current VLE to Sakai): technical stuff, but also user support materials
• Regarding issue of surnames: first collate use cases (might not be the same all over Europe) and then write down requirements.
Result: What should have priority?
• Item #6 (international date and time formats): 7 votes.
Result: What is not an issue (any more)?
• There is a patch for #6 (date and time format)
• # 9: (sort of) you can use webservices to overcome problem; this is a hack
• #12: seems to be solved in Version 2.2
• # 5: is actually a localization issue
What’s next
• Check out:– http://sakai-nl.blogspot.com– http://elearning.surf.nl/sakai– Wiki:
http://bugs.sakaiproject.org/confluence/display/EUROSAKAI/Home
– Collab: DG: Euro Sakai• Let’s talk: leave your business card / email
address
Thanking you for your attention and collaboration!