[Building Sakai] Sakai course on CD

Fri Jun 5 04:43:39 PDT 2009

We at UFP have been evaluating the different options on how to contribute to
better SCORM support. We have been divided between starting a new player
from scratch or contribute to existing efforts. It seems will go the first
path, after initial discussions with Edia.

But I have no timeline yet, just a working prototype.
Regards,
Feliz

2009/6/5 Plourde, Mathieu <mathieu at udel.edu>

> Hi,
>
> I've been kickin' and screamin' about better support for SCORM and IMS CC
> for quite some time now. Anyone besides the CRIM working on this?
>
> Best Regards,
>
> =========================
>
> Mathieu Plourde
> LMS Project Leader
> IT-User Services
> University of Delaware
> 021 Smith Hall
> Newark, DE 19716
>
> Phone: 302-831-4060
> Fax: 302-831-4205
> mathieu at udel.edu
>
> =========================
> ________________________________________
> From: sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org [
> sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] On Behalf Of John Norman [
> john at caret.cam.ac.uk]
> Sent: Friday, June 05, 2009 7:21 AM
> To: Philip Fedchin
> Cc: sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org
> Subject: Re: [Building Sakai] Sakai course on CD
>
> In addition to other comments, this sounds like a slightly unusual
> (from Sakai perspective), but very reasonable scenario for IMS Course
> Cartridge support. If you could find or create a lightweight
> distributable IMS Course Cartridge player and distribute/develop that,
> then Sakai will be wanting to support Course Cartridge export (if we
> don't already) as part of its archiving strategy. The reason I mention
> this specification is that the scenario you outline seems very similar
> to the Publisher use-cases that informed the development of the spec,
> and distributing materials on CD that include content and assessment
> is very similar to some of the online active textbook projects that
> publishers are developing and distributing using the spec.
>
> A key issue might be around expectations of communication back from
> the system running the CD, about the activities and scores of the
> student.
>
> John
>
> PS there are commercial Course Cartridge players.
>
> On 5 Jun 2009, at 11:31, 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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