[DG: Teaching & Learning] [DG: User Experience] Wiki's and Sakai

[Michael Feldstein]

>
> Having said that, the CMS + Sakai=templates? Widgets/RESTful hooks use case
> seems very compelling to me. Esp. given that Cambridge's initial work could
> almost be considered using HTML templates w/o CMS capabilities - this may be
> a logical adaptation and raises really intriguing thoughts about being able
> to embed learning contexts wherever they may live -- wikis, websites,
> portals, desktop applications...
>   
Yeah, that's essentially where I'm going with all of this (or one of the 
possible directions, anyway). In particular, the idea here is to try to 
avoid doing anything that will complicate putting Sakai pages--which, 
after all, are just HTML pages--in a WCM system, and possibly to follow 
some conventions with markup when possible that makes chunking Sakai 
pages into templates in your WCM system of choice as easy as possible.

One challenge (as John N will no doubt point out if I neglect to do so) 
is that those WCM systems often bring a lot of UI baggage with them that 
could unnecessarily complicate course authoring, which usually only 
needs a relatively small subset of the kinds of functionality available 
in a full-on enterprise WCM system. (Think about approval workflows, for 
example.) Trying to avoid this leads one down the path of incorporating 
some sort of basic WCM functionality (either home-grown or borrowed) 
into Sakai itself. If this is what happens, then I agree there's only so 
far you can bend to make things pluggable without getting 
counter-productive. In this case, I'm just emphasizing the need to do 
encapsulation whenever possible, use standards where they exist, follow 
well-established design patterns, yadda yadda yadda.

- m

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