[Announcements] Sakai Newsletter December 8, 2011
Margaret Wagner
mwagner at umich.edu
Tue Dec 13 08:18:58 PST 2011
Sakai Newsletter
December 8, 2011
1. From the Executive Director
2. Indiana University and the University of Michigan Increase
Investment in OAE
3. Make Sure Sakai is Represented!
4. Sakai 2.7.2 and 2.8.1 Maintenance Releases
5. AuSakai 2012 Conference -- 18 - 19 September 2012
6. Teaching with Sakai Webinar Series: Session 04
7. Marist College Seeking Instructional Designer
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1. From the Executive Director
I am pleased to announce that Steve Swinsburg, of the Australian
National University, David Ackerman, of New York University, and Seth
Theriault, of Columbia University have been elected to the Board of
Directors of the Sakai Foundation.
The elections were close run, with the second two of three candidates
receiving an identical number of votes. In these unprecedented
circumstances, and with only two positions vacant, the existing Board
were polled for their preferences on how to proceed. They determined,
without any vote to the contrary, that all three candidates should be
declared elected -- hence the slight delay in announcing results.
I would like to welcome the three successful candidates to the
Foundation Board, and to thank them for volunteering their time and
effort to the Board.
Ian Dolphin
Executive Director, Sakai Foundation
iandolphin at sakaifoundation.org
Twitter: d iandolphin24
Voting:
38 Institutional Representatives voted, with Steve Swinsburg (ANU)
receiving 28 votes, David Ackerman (NYU) 20 votes, and Seth Theriault
(Columbia) 20 votes.
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2. Indiana University and the University of Michigan Increase
Investment in Sakai Open Academic Environment Software
Indiana University (IU) and the University of Michigan have committed
to more than doubling their investment in the Sakai community product
suite; increasing their commitment to the Sakai Open Academic
Environment (OAE) project from $200K to $500K per year. The OAE
project represents the Sakai community's new vision for collaboration
and learning software for higher education.
"With academic social networking and content discovery features,
support of emerging learner-centered pedagogies, and flexible and
extensible technical architecture, the OAE has the potential to
reshape higher education," said Brad Wheeler, IU vice president for
information technology and chief information officer.
In 2004, IU, the University of Michigan, MIT, and Stanford jointly
launched the Sakai project to create open-source course management
tools and related software for the higher education community. Today,
the Sakai Foundation is made up of more than 68 member institutions
and a dozen corporate affiliates. In total, the Sakai Collaboration
and Learning Environment (CLE) learning management software is being
used in over 350 institutions.
The recent increase in investment will expedite the development of
OAE, encouraging institutions to transition their developmental
resources from CLE into OAE. Indiana University and University of
Michigan have been major users and financial supporters of CLE since
its inception, and after core OAE functionality is available, both
plan to run CLE and OAE systems in parallel to ease the transition for
faculty and students.
"The renewed and expanded commitment by Indiana University and the
University of Michigan to the Sakai product suite continues the
tradition of partnership and innovation between these two great
institutions," said Laura Patterson, chief information officer and
associate vice president of information and technology services at the
University of Michigan. "The time is right to accelerate the new
culture of learning that is emerging to meet 21st century demands for
life-long, life-wide engagement."
In addition to Indiana and Michigan, the OAE project's founding
institutional partners include Cambridge University, UC Berkeley, New
York University, Charles Sturt University, and Georgia Tech. The
project released OAE version 1.0.2 on October 21, 2011, and core
functionality will become available over the next 12 to 24 months.
See http://sakaiproject.org/node/2239
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3. Make Sure Sakai is Represented!
Birmingham University (UK) has been undertaking a survey of LMS/VLE
use across Higher Education. Please take a moment to add information
about your Sakai instance at:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Au_thP0JDFvidHA4WGYwbFpUTmh4Z3RjSVQzQTViaGc&hl=en_US#gid=0
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4. Sakai 2.7.2 and 2.8.1 Maintenance Releases
The Sakai community has been busy moving forward with multiple
projects and releases. We are pleased to announce availability of both
the Sakai 2.7.2 and 2.8.1 maintenance releases.
- Release documentation and artifacts for 2.7.2 are available at
http://source.sakaiproject.org/release/2.7.2/
- Release documentation and artifacts for 2.8.1 are available at
http://source.sakaiproject.org/release/2.8.1/
We are also working on the Sakai CLE 2.9.0 major release, which
contains over 500 bug fixes, security fixes and new features, with an
anticipated release date next year.
Our thanks go out to the dedicated Sakai Community volunteers from
around the world who have made this release possible.
Beth Kirschner
bkirschn at umich.edu
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5. AuSakai 2012 Conference -- 18 - 19 September 2012
The AuSakai 2012 conference will be held on 18 - 19 September 2012 on
the Bathurst Campus, NSW and hosted by Charles Sturt University. The
conference will finish around 3pm on 19 September 2012.
The theme will focus on the innovative use of Sakai.
The international keynote speakers will be:
- Dr Lucy Appert, an academic and also Director of Educational
Technology, New York University. Lucy is further the chair of the
Sakai Open Academic Environment user reference group.
- Ian Dolphin, Executive Director of the Sakai Foundation.
We hope that you will be able to present/attend. More information
will follow.
Make sure it's in your 2012 diary.
Regards
Philip Uys
Director, Strategic Learning and Teaching Innovation
Division of Learning and Teaching Services
Charles Sturt University
PUys at csu.edu.au
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6. Teaching with Sakai Webinar Series -- Session 04
Dear colleagues and friends,
Please plan to attend the fourth session in the Teaching with Sakai
webinar series!
Engaging Medical Students in Pathology: Podcasts and Zooming Images
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
3:00 pm EST; noon PST
Register now at: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/2359146270
Dr. Howard Reisner (UNC-Chapel Hill) is teaching a one-week block that
introduces second year medical students to pathology -- specifically,
the causes and progression of disease as expressed in tissue. The
teaching goals are to:
- Introduce medical students to common disease processes as expressed
in tissue
- Provide case-based examples of disease in tissue to provide practice
for students in recognizing tissue-based lesions using virtual
microscopy
- Promote active learning by providing a disease identification
challenge to students
This webinar will focus on how Dr. Reisner is using interactive,
"zoomable" images (i.e., virtual microscopy) and video podcasts in
Sakai to meet these goals in a medical curriculum setting.
The Teaching with Sakai Webinar Series
The Teaching with Sakai webinar series highlights effective teaching
practices using Sakai. Each webinar in the series begins with a
20-minute presentation followed by facilitated discussion.
We hope to see you online!
Kim Eke
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Jon Hays
University of California-Berkeley
Kate Ellis
Indiana University-Bloomington
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7. Marist College Seeking Instructional Designer
Marist College is seeking applicants for the full time position of
Instructional Designer. This position will report to the Assistant
Director of Academic Technology and eLearning and play a central role
in helping the college achieve new strategic goals associated with
distance education and using instructional technologies to enhance the
teaching and learning experience. The position will provide faculty
with pedagogical and instructional design consultation related to
course, module, and whole curriculum development activities for
traditional, online, and hybrid courses.
More details and application can be found at: http://jobs.marist.edu
Thanks,
Joshua Baron
Director, Academic Technology and eLearning
Marist College
Josh.Baron at marist.edu
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