[Building Sakai] Sakai course on CD

[David Horwitz]

Hi Philip,

Have you seen the Sakai solo project
(http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/confluence/display/SOLO/Learning+offline+with+SOLO)?
It seems that some of your aims a similar to that, and I know that there
was talk of making initial content available on a CD with the client
that could then be updated if the user went online.

Regards

David Horwitz

Philip Fedchin wrote:
> Dear Collegues!
>
> We have a rather urgent need at our university to create CD-versions of our Sakai courses. 
> In relation to this need we are considering a development of specific tool on the basis of OCW. We would be really grateful for your comments/suggestions/expressed interest to participate. Although we are very much looking forward to Sakai 3, but the task is much more urgent and we are forced to base the process on current Sakai 2.5.4 version with the addition of couple Contrib tools. May be you have some ideas concerning more productive way of realizing our short term goals in terms of Sakai future.
>
> So, we have in mind the following list of tools/functions available from the disk/local workstation:
> 1) modules content (Melete and Resources, perhaps Conditional Release);
> 2) tests (Test&Quizzes);
> 3) glossary (glossary);
> 4) search (new tool for the search on CD).
>
> The preliminary plan is to develop the tool on the basis of OCW. The tool would consist of server and client parts. The server part would be fullfilled by Sakai through the creation of standard course site with modules created using Resources, Melete, Test&Quizzes. The client part is a player (interface), which allows to present on the CD the course downloaded from Sakai.
> And we plan to use Adobe Air (Flex) as the technology behind the client part.
>
> The standard scenario is the following:
> 1) Professor creates a course in Sakai using Melete, Resources, Test&Quizzes and Glossary
> 2) Using the tool the course materials files are downloaded together with the XML file reflecting the structure.
> 3) The files are copied to CD
> 4) The course is played from CD using Adobe Air based player.
> There will be an opportunity if needed to create client interface using SWT (The Standard Widget Toolkit) as we are planning to document and make available the code.
>
> Looking forward to your reaction.
> Best,
> Philip Fedchin
> Associate Director for Information Resources
> Smolny College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
> (St.Petersburg State University & Bard College)
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