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1 online resource (x, 478 pages) : illustrations, maps, portraits. |
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text file |
| Series |
From technologies to solutions
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From technologies to solutions.
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| Note |
Title from title screen. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
This book is the officially endorsed Sakai guide. From setting up and running Sakai for the first time to creatively using its tools, this book delivers everything you need to know. Written by Alan Berg, Senior developer at the IC (http://www.ic.uva.nl) and a Sakai fellow and Michael Korcuska, the executive director of the Sakai Foundation, and with significant contributions from the Sakai community, this book is a comprehensive study of how Sakai should be used, managed and maintained. Sakai represents a Collaboration and Learning environment that provides the means of managing users, courses, instructors, and facilities, as well as a spectrum of tools including assessment, grading, and messaging. Sakai is loaded with many handy software tools, which help you in online collaboration. You can improve your coursework using features that supplement and enhance teaching and learning. You can use tools that will help you organize your communication and collaborative work. The book opens with an overview that explains Sakai, its history and how to set up a demonstration version. The underlying structures within Sakai are described and you can then start working on Sakai and create your first course or project site using the concepts explained in this book. You will then structure online courses for teaching and collaboration between groups of students. Soon after mastering the Administration Workspace section you will realize that there is a vast difference between the knowledge that is required for running a demonstration version of Sakai and that needed for maintaining production systems. You will then strengthen your concepts by going through the ten real-world situations given in this book. The book also discusses courses that have won awards, displays a rogue's gallery of 30 active members of the community, and describes what motivates management at the University of Amsterdam to buy into Sakai. Finally, the executive director of the Sakai Foundation looks towards the future. |
| Contents |
Cover; Table of Contents; Preface; 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; Chapter 3: Sakai Anatomy; The Sakai framework; The aggregation layer; The presentation layer; The tools layer; The services layer; Core technologies |
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How Sakai is deployed at scaleLoad balancing; Frontend servers; Database preferences; The Java Virtual Machine; Enterprise data integration; Summary; 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 |
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Chapter 6: Enterprise Bundle Tools & Quality AssuranceCore 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 |
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Sponsoring creativityPros 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; 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 |
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The tools and structure of a Sakai siteSakai'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 |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Web-based instruction.
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Web-based instruction. |
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Internet in education.
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Internet in education. |
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Open source software -- United States.
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Open source software. |
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United States. |
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Educational technology -- United States.
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Educational technology. |
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Instructional systems -- Design -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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Instructional systems -- Design. |
| Genre/Form |
Handbooks and manuals.
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| Subject |
Open source software -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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Computer-assisted instruction -- Computer programs -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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Educational innovations -- United States.
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EDUCATION -- Adult & Continuing Education. |
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EDUCATION -- Non-Formal Education. |
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Educational technology. |
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Computer-assisted instruction / Computer programs / Handbooks, manuals, etc. |
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Computer-assisted instruction -- Computer programs. |
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Instructional systems / Design / Handbooks, manuals, etc. |
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Educational innovations. |
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Open source software / Handbooks, manuals, etc. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Handbooks and manuals.
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| Added Author |
Korcuska, Michael, author.
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Zeckoski, Aaron, reviewer.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Berg, Alan Mark. Sakai courseware management. Birmingham, U.K. : Packt Publishing, 2009 9781847199409 (OCoLC)422723117 |
| ISBN |
1847199402 (paperback) |
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9781847199409 (paperback) |
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9781847199416 (electronic book) |
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1847199410 (electronic book) |
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9781847199409 |
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