[DG: Teaching & Learning] Follow up comment - teaching and learning call

[Grossman,John E]

The call yesterday about a Sakai teaching and learning wish list and about Sakai-specific development vs. integration was very interesting. Here are a few additional thoughts.

  *   Development of Sakai-specific features or enhancements requires a fair amount of understanding about Sakai architecture as well as the development and deployment tools. This is a significant barrier to entry. It excludes all the developers in the world, such as .NET, PHP, Python and Ruby developers,  who don't care to work with the Sakai toolkit . It also excludes people who are working on cloud-based services. Improvements in external tool integration opens up Sakai to all those folks and their ideas and creativity.
  *   One way to approach an external tool integration wish list for teaching and learning would be to ask "What are the core aspects of Sakai that need to be available to external tools to enhance teaching?" LTI now supports outbound user names, email addresses, and roster. It supports inbound grades, settings and access to the Lessons API. Janice mentioned resources. We could identify others, prioritize them and propose them to the development community.
  *   A related need for integration with external tools is clear instructions on how to implement the integration.

Looking forward to the next steps.

John

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John Grossman
Director, Academic Technology Services<https://cms-test.mdanderson.org/ats/edtools/index.html>
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
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