Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1: What Is Sakai?
Chapter 2: Feet First: Running the Demo
Chapter 3: Sakai Anatomy
Chapter 4: My First Project Site
Chapter 5: Your First Course Site
Chapter 6: Enterprise Bundle Tools & Quality Assurance
Chapter 7: Worksite Tools
Chapter 8: Contributed Tools
Chapter 9: Putting Sakai to Work
Chapter 10: The Administration Workspace
Chapter 11: Web Services: Connecting to the Enterprise
Chapter 12: Tips from the Trenches
Chapter 13: Common Error Messages
Chapter 14: Show Cases
Chapter 15: Innovating Teaching and Learning with Sakai
Chapter 16: A Crib Sheet for Selling Sakai to Traditional Management
Chapter 17: Participating in the Sakai Community
Chapter 18: Rogues Gallery
Chapter 19: Looking Ahead: Sakai 3
Index
- Chapter 1: What Is Sakai?
- Sakai tools
- The Sakai Foundation
- Sakai worksite
- The community
- Branches
- Workgroups
- Developers
- Roots
- A brief history
- Sakai 1.0
- Present day
- Advantages for organizations
- Summary
- Chapter 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
- Installing the demo
- Chapter 3: Sakai 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
- Summary
- The Sakai framework
- Chapter 4: My First Project Site
- Tool-specific help
- Managing project sites
- Browsing the demonstration
- Site creation
- Tools of immediate value
- Maintaining your site details
- Summary
- Chapter 5: Your First Course Site
- Creating a course site using the Sakai demo
- Starter tips
- Descriptions are important
- Password strength
- Becoming another user quickly
- The motivation for sections
- Creating sections
- Summary
- Chapter 6: Enterprise Bundle Tools & Quality Assurance
- Core tools in Sakai 2.6
- Contrib to Provisional
- Stealthily to Core
- Enterprise-level quality
- The Quality Assurance process
- Maintenance releases
- The automated testing
- Automatic code analysis
- Summary
- Chapter 7: Worksite Tools
- A flashcard activity
- Commonalities between tools
- The Resources tool
- Course tools
- Context
- Communication plan
- Content
- Assessing individual students
- Introducing Portfolios
- Portfolio expert interviewed
- Summary
- Chapter 8: 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
- The University of Michigan
- Creating tools
- Building tools
- Sakai Electronic Lab Notebook for Research and Groupwork (SENRG)
- SASH
- Interview with Steven Githens, the force behind SASH
- AppBuilder
- Sousa—Content authoring and delivery for Sakai
- What is Sousa?
- An Interview with Mark Norton
- Edia
- What is Edia?
- Skin Manager
- Sakai Maps
- Fedora tool
- Web course tool
- Open Syllabus
- Summary
- Chapter 9: 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
- Chapter 10: 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
- Adding a Portfolio template
- The Portfolio administration site
- OpenEd
- Summary
- Chapter 11: 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 Entity Broker author Aaron Zeckoski
- WSRP
- Summary
- Protocols
- Chapter 12: Tips from the Trenches
- The benefits of knowing that frameworks exist
- Third-party frameworks
- Spring
- Hibernate
- Apache frameworks
- Dependencies
- Expanded tour of Java
- Introduction
- JMX monitoring
- 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"
- Migrating course content
- Interviews at the deep end
- Megan May
- Seth Theriault
- David Howitz
- Functional administration
- Summary
- Chapter 13: 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
- A policy of containment of errors
- Chapter 14: 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
- Summary
- Sakai @ the University of Amsterdam
- About the author
- About the University
- E-learning
- The SURF Foundation
- UvA communities, a Sakai collaboration environment
- Webklassen
- Conflict Studies
- IIS Communities
- The Hague Forum for Judicial Expertise
- Project sites
- 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
- About the authors
- Abstract
- Introduction
- Sakai usage, full adoption
- The UFP tools
- Sakai usage at UFP
- 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: Students' engagement with a Virtual Research Environment, a case study
- About the authors
- Background
- Tutor engagement
- Data collection
- Student engagement
- Key themes
- Conclusions and recommendations
- References
- 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
- About the authors
- Summary
- Chapter 15: Innovating Teaching and Learning with Sakai
- The Teaching with Sakai Innovation Award
- Case studies from the winner's circle
- 1st Place Winner: Biomedical Engineering (University of Michigan, USA)
- Course description
- Course development and delivery
- Teaching innovation
- 2nd Place Winner: International Law (University of Cape Town, South Africa)
- Course description
- Course development and delivery
- Teaching innovation
- 1st Place Winner: Biomedical Engineering (University of Michigan, USA)
- Conclusions and lessons learned
- Summary
- References
- Chapter 16: A Crib Sheet for Selling Sakai to Traditional Management
- 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 & CAS
- Sakai on the fringes
- Sakai at UvA
- An interview with the Director
- Summary
- Context
- Chapter 17: Participating in the Sakai Community
- The Sakai Foundation
- Consensus building
- Legal home
- Partnering up
- The community
- DoOcracy
- Transparent communication
- Conferences
- Collab
- Work Groups
- Asynchronous communication
- Open code, Open Standards
- The QA network
- The risk of information loss
- The current wish list
- An interview with a member of the community
- Summary
- The Sakai Foundation
- Chapter 18: Rogues Gallery
- If the Sakai community were a person
- Sakai fellows
- Dr Ian Boston
- Clay Fenlason
- Nuno Fernandes
- Steven Githens
- David Howitz
- Beth Kirschner
- Dr. Maggie McVay Lynch
- Stephen Marquard
- Seth Theriault
- Zach A Thomas
- Aaron Zeckoski
- Foundation members
- Michael Korcuska
- Peter Knoop
- Mary Miles
- Pete Peterson
- Anthony Whyte
- Developers
- Nicolaas Matthijs
- Ray Davis
- Quality assurers
- Jean-François
- Megan May
- The rest
- Chris Coppola
- John Leasia
- John Norman
- Mark Norton
- Charles Severance
- Margaret Wagner
- Chapter 19: Looking Ahead: Sakai 3
- Sakai 3 goals
- Sakai 3 for users
- Moving beyond sites
- Breaking the tool silos
- Social networking
- Content creation and organization
- Sakai 3 for technologists
- Interview with Sakai 3 chief architect
- Summary
