Whats New in Sakai

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Whats New in Sakai

• Hannah Reves
• The rSmart Group

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New is a Relative Term

• Sakai Project turns 4 this year
• 7 Major Releases
• Over 100 developers around the world
• Rapid pace of innovation
• World class platform for educational
  collaboration
• International educational community
• Launched community source movement in higher
  education
• Challenged the powers that Bb

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Current Capabilities
Courses
Portfolios
Projects
Admin
My Workspace
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Potential Applications
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Whos Using Sakai?
Over 130 Implementations on 7 continents Sample
Implementations Worldwide with Approximate Size
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The Many Faces of Sakai
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Sakai 2.5 by the Numbers

• 2.5.0 Released late March
• 1172 Bug Fixes
• 597 Fixes Awaiting Verification
• 313 Functional Enhancements
• 649 Known Issues

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Sakai 2.5 Release Highlights

• Tool Promotions (Portfolio tools, Test Quizzes,
  Reset Password)
• New Tools - (Blogger, Podcast, Poll tool, Link
  tool)
• Aggregated Portfolio views in My Workspace
• Group Awareness in Matrix and Wizard tools
• Design input from FLUID community
• Accessibility enhancements (iFrameless PDA
  portal), broader testing
• Performance Improvements to Assignments, Content
  Hosting and Roster

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Sakai 2.5 Release Highlights

• Improved integration b/w Assignment Gradebook
• Expanded Notification Options (Assignments,
  DropBox, OSP tools)
• Portal enhancements- site categorization and tool
  categorization, PDA option
• Database enhancements - faster entity parser,
  optimized binary entity serialization
• User Directory - improved performance, support
  for login IDs, improved DAV performance
• Internationalization (Arabic, Catalan, Chinese,
  Dutch,French, German Hebrew, Japanese, Portugese,
  Russian, Spanish, etc)

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Sakai 2.5 Demo

• rSmart Sakai CLE 2.5 / CLE 2.4
• Cambridge University CamTools
• Public/Private Spaces
• My Workspace as personal learning environment
• Blending of teaching and learning content across
  contexts over time

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Whats Next for Sakai?

• New Tools
• User Experience Project/Accessibility
• Framework and Services Developments
• Synchronous tools/capabilities
• Social Networking
• SCORM
• Portfolio Capability
• Content Management Sequencing

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Tools on the Horizon

• Agora - online meeting tool
• Breeze link
• CANS - context aware notification
• Checklist
• Clicker Registration
• Evaluation System
• Form Builder
• Image Gallery/Image Quiz
• IMS Enterprise Services
• Learning Log
• My Sakai
• Open Syllabus/SOUSA
• OCW - Open Course Ware

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UX Improvement Initiative

• New User Interface designs
• Greater Customization, End-User control
• Web 2.0 Look and Feel

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UX Improvement Initiative
My Yahoo, iGoogle as Models
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UX Improvement Initiative
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Accessibility

• Replace FCK Editor with TinyMCE, and re-implement
  customizations (e.g., Resource browsing).
• Help test a frame-less version of Sakai.
• Explore problem with Content iFrames becoming
  unusable when CSS is disabled.
• Suggest improvements for keyboard-only use of
  tools
• Suggest fixes for unresolved "Accessibility"
  Jiras.
• Expand accessibility testing to include Tests
  Quizzes (Samigo) and OSP (Portfolio) tools.

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Framework Services

• Support for more flexible configuration of
  components
• JCR implementation for content hosting
• Virus-scanner service to support optional, add-on
  virus scanning capabilities
• Support for Site Hierarchy
• Alternative Clustering implementation

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Synchronicity

• Live Meeting and Classroom tools
• Open Source Agora
• Commercial Products
• Elluminate
• Horizon Wimba
• Adobe Connect

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Social Networking Web 2.0

• Web 2.0 Integration Options
• Google Apps
• Facebook
• MySpace

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SCORM Integration

• 2 versions of SCORM Player tool
• available now
• Alternate ways of importing and using SCORM
  content
• Etudes and McGraw Hill
• collection of standards and specifications for
  web-based

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Expanded Portfolio Capability

• Upload/Download portfolios
• End User Template Builders (forms)
• Cross site integration of services
• My Workspace as Learners Portfolio
• Personal Learning Plans

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Potential Sakai Roadmap

• Infrastructure

• JSR-170 Support
• Release Packaging Solution PDA/Frameless
  Portal

• Enhanced Group Awareness
• Site Hierarchy
• Archiving

Multi-tenant Hosting

• Integration

Virtual Classrooms (Elluminate)
Social Networking Software Google
Apps

• Enhanced SIS integration
• External (non Java) apps
• Library Dbases

Federated Repositories Context Aware
Notification Meta-search tools

• Teaching, Learning, Collaboration, Assessment

Sequenced Learning Content Assessment
Mapping Mgmt Advanced Content Editors
rSmart Sakai CLE

• Personalized Learning/LORS
• Enhanced Virtual Collaboration
• LAMS

• Criteria-based Release
• Integrative Teaching Learning

User Experience/Accessibility/Internationalization
FLUID Initiative/UX project Fully
frameless portal Fully Accessible
Wysiwig Editor Enhanced i18n and l10n
support

• User specified transformable content capability
• JSF widget enhancements

Content Handling
Migration Tools and Options
SCORM Content Support
Publisher Content Support
IMS Common Cartridge Support Enhanced Content
Hosting Handlers

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Open Source IS the Future

• BE a PART of IT - Get Involved

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Wiki Sakai BugTracking

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