Scott Siddall June10, 2013

1. Scott Siddall June10, 2013

2. Sakai CLETheCollaboration & Learning Environment for and by higher education

3. What is Sakai CLE? • Open source software that’s not ‘owned’ by anyone • Community software used by millions of students • Sakai is not Longsight’s product • Sakai is created and sustained by leaders in higher ed • Stanford, Michigan, Indiana • Duke, NYU, Columbia, UNC….many more • You’re free to use it, improve it, share it • Make the best of your peers’ contributions

4. What is Sakai CLE? • Sakai CLE is what you make of it. • Do a little • Templated courses, prescribed instructor choices • Make it easy to use • Do a lot • Develop new tools, integrations • Contribute to the Sakai community • It’s always your choice • You and your peers “own” Sakai CLE • You control your future with Sakai CLE

5. Content Management ePortfolios Learning Workflow Communication Analytics • What is Sakai CLE? Sakai is a flexible framework Not just a box to fill with content (but it could be)

6. Syllabus Tests & Quizzes CitationHelper Lecture capture Resources Content Management Communication Podcasts Learning Workflow Gradebook Web Content News Feed Announcements Messages Forums Assignments • What is Sakai CLE? Pedagogically rich Your faculty can realize almost any pedagogical vision Tools Example: hybrid or fully online course

7. Resources Announcements Messages Blog Wiki Chat Room Content Management Communications • What is Sakai CLE? …or a site for small group collaboration

8. Resources VoiceThread Assignments Google Drive Sakai ePortfolios Tegrity lecture capture Piazza Mahara Forums Content Management ePortfolios Learning Workflow Communication • What is Sakai CLE? Even richer as a scaffold for best of breed services as well as Sakai native tools

9. Commercial vs. Open Commercial LMS Open source LMS Excellent products Proprietary development and code; slower to change Costs can be high; include substantial licensing & marketing costs Meets the needs of the market defined by shareholders Support and code development are exclusive to one vendor Excellent products Open development and code; rapidly evolving Lower total costs of access and integration Meets the needs of the market defined by stakeholders (IHE) Support and code development are unbundled – competitive support

10. “…the LMS decision is now more about choosing a path than product.”-Brad Wheeler, Indiana University

11. Ownership and open source • Each campus has dedicated instances. • High cost of modification. • Closed development. • One vendor. • One shared instance, constantly updated. • “Open source” but closed development (no community). • One vendor who reaps all benefits of “open source.” • Truly open, community source. • Low cost to modify, extend, customize, evolve. • Many vendorsfor support. • Campus completely owns and controls their LMS destiny. • Benefits to campuses, not vendors.

12. Integration • With your student information system • Automated course site creation • Enrollment management • With campus authentication services • No change in account management • With third-party applications • Web conferencing • Plagiarism detection • Clickers • Equation editors • Media archives • Respondus Lockdown Browser • Google Drive • Many more….. • IMS Global standards (LTI, LIS)

13. Case Study Faculty-driven enhancements to Sakai CLE

14. Case Study Programming effort Enhancements to the Sakai CLE Gradebook: Drop highest and/or lowest score 50 hours Extra credit option 25 hours Extra credit category for weighted grade books 13 hours Enhancements to the Sakai CLE Forums tool: Sort Discussion Forum threads 6 hours Start and end dates on Forum topics 12 hours Word count in Forums tool 8 hours Interface for grading forums 35 hours Post before read requirement 14 hours Other enhancements: Add BCC to Messages tool 5 hours List scheduled assessments in Calendar automatically 6 hours Create User Activity tool for financial aid reporting 14 hours

15. Case Study • Less than $18,000 one-time cost, funded by the campus CIO • Six months from faculty request to completion • Faculty response was immediate and positive • All enhancements contributed to the community release of Sakai 2.9 • The Sakai community maintains these enhancements through subsequent upgrades

16. Case Study • Less than $18,000 one-time cost, funded by the campus CIO • Six months from faculty request to completion • Faculty response was immediate and positive • All enhancements contributed to the community release of Sakai 2.9 • The Sakai community maintains these enhancements through subsequent upgrades Continuous advancement of Sakai CLE is driven by stakeholders in education

17. State university with 11,000 users Cloud offerings (multi-tenant, shared): Canvas $205,000/yr Blackboard $200,000/yr Desire2Learn $110,000/yr Moodlerooms $ 91,000/yr Dedicated commercial hosting and support: Sakai $ 62,000/yr Self-hosted with commercial support: Blackboard$159,000/yr Desire2Learn$104,000/yr Sakai $ 89,000/yr • Case study of operating costs

18. What distinguishes Longsight from others?

19. About Longsight • Hosting and supporting Sakai CLE and precursors since 2002 • Agile, higher-ed-experienced team Support for large and small institutions: Texas Tech University Health Science Center Western University (Ontario) University of Baltimore Ithaca College St. Lawrence University Wellesley College Seminole State College of Florida Columbia University Duke University Loyola University Chicago Miami University New York University Pepperdine University Washington & Lee University

20. Ensure that our clients get the most out of community source software Comprehensive support 24 x 7 Direct access to Sakai experts World-class hosting; 100% uptime SLA Customizations, integrations, development Training, design consultation Fully open exit strategy; no lock-in • Longsight’s Role

21. Sakai CLE is a flexible and extensible framework for faculty innovation best practices building out any pedagogical vision • Sakai CLE and OSU goals

22. Notifications and messaging Detailed control over assessment feedback Model answers • Frequent feedback

23. Full support for flipped classroom (resources and recorded lectures, discussion forums). Profile for connections within institution; manifested in tools such as Forums, rosters Fine-grained control over messaging such as course-based lists Wide range of grouping options: ad hoc groups and sections with course tools that recognize groups Group assignment submissions and grading Guest access Project sites • Frequent interactions

24. Leverage Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences through Sakai’s highly flexible framework research data: one full grade improvement from placement testing then appropriate accommodation Adaptive sequencing through Lessons (formative assessment, conditional release) Integration of Knewton or Smart Sparrow • Flexible and adaptive

25. Instructors’ design option that is fully supported by Sakai Content authoring is distributed to all roles (can be limited) Individual and group problem solving (assignment tied to discussions) collaborative writing (wiki), group-based eportfolios (peer review) Peer assessments by NYU • Active learning

26. Model answers Eportfolio rubrics Rubrics as integrated service Flexible syllabus tool Checklist tool for tracking progress • Clear expectations

27. Eportfolio artifacts derive from any experience in Sakai; promotes reflection and evaluation beyond the course • Teaching for transfer, integration

28. Faculty can sequence content and activities through Lessons User activity reports; notifications to advisement Learning analytics and outcomes/progress communicated to learners (in development) • Fosters reflection, metacognition

29. UX community for consistency Enterprise, scalable application - Longsight’s 100% uptime SLA Not a multi-tenant cloud-based application that can fail globally System-wide outages are extremely rare; failure in a tool is contained Content and application are separated; patching takes minutes; upgrades take < 2 hrs • Reliable and consistent

30. Course sites for placement testing Just-in-time resources for both technology and subject materials • Fill in gaps

31. Explore Sakai CLE for free http://trysakai.longsight.com

32. Thank you.