Workshop A1: An Instructor's Guide to Sakai
Presenters: Dan Beeby, Jonah Bossewitch
Summary
Dan Beeby and Jonah Bossewitch provided an overview of Sakai, an open-source course management system that may be deployed at Columbia in the future. Attendees ranged from people who have never heard of Sakai to those who have been deeply involved in evaluating the software for Columbia, including University administrators, librarians, and IT professionals. Dan and Jonah explained Sakai within the context of component architecture and as a community source project to provide a greater sense of the software and its role in pedagogical design and planning.
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