Sakai CLE courseware management : the official guide : take your e-learning, research, and collaboration experience to new level / Alan Berg, Ian Dolphin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Berg, Alan, author.

Dolphin, Ian, author.

Series:

Community experience distilled

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law--Study and teaching (Continual education)--Computer programs.

Law.

Educational technology.

Computer-assisted instruction--Computer programs--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Computer-assisted instruction.

Open source software--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Open source software.

Internet in higher education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (456 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Birmingham : Packt Publishing Open Source, 2011.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Take your e-learning, research, and collaboration experience to the next level

Contents:

Cover; Copyright; Credits; Foreword; About the Authors; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: What is Sakai?; Sakai tools; The Sakai Foundation; Sakai worksite; The community; Branches; Workgroups; Developers; Rogues Gallery; Sakai's academic background; A brief history; The Java-based tool creation; Sakai 1.0; Present day; What's Next?-The Sakai open academic environment; 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 sourceSummary; Chapter 3: Sakai 2.x 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; Sakai OAE anatomy; Architectural overview; Client-side anatomy (""3akai-ux""); Nakamura server-side anatomy (""Nakamura""); Summary; Chapter 4: My First Site; Tool-specific help; Managing project sites; Browsing the demonstration; Site creation; Creating a course site

Tools of immediate valueMaintaining your site details; Starter tips; Descriptions are important; Password strength; The motivation for sections; Creating sections; Summary; Chapter 5: Enterprise Bundle Tools & Quality Assurance; Using Core tools in Sakai 2.6; Core tools since Sakai 2.6; From Contrib to Provisional; Stealthily to Core; Enterprise-level quality; The Quality Assurance process; QA leads; Maintenance releases; Automated testing; Automatic code analysis; Summary; Chapter 6: Worksite Tools; Creating flashcards; Commonalities between tools; The Resources tool

Using course tools togetherThe context; Making a communication plan; Placing Content; Assessing individual students; Introducing Portfolios; Towards OSP integration in Sakai OAE; Summary; Chapter 7: 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; Creating tools; Building tools; SASH; Interview with Steven Githens, the force behind SASH; Summary; Chapter 8: Putting Sakai to Work

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 9: The Administration Workspace; What is a Sakai administrator?; The Administration tool set; Basic concepts

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Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed February 21, 2017).

ISBN:

9786613349453

9781283349451

1283349450

9781849515436

1849515433

OCLC:

797917515