[Using Sakai] Sakai & Canvas...

[Ian Dolphin]

It's always interesting to hear attempts to spread fear uncertainty and 
doubt. Such efforts are not entirely without self interest, of course, 
and I know you'll judge them as such.

As far as I am aware Stanford has made no decision, but I should not 
speak for them - neither should any representative of a 
commercial-proprietary entity, unless they have been authorized to do 
so. But that is how such conversations go at other institutions, right?

Sakai has been resourced by a broader range of schools than those you 
mention for a considerable period, and continues to add system wide 
enhancements (look at the recent Morpheus work others have mentioned) 
and enhancements to specific tools (Lessons enhancement, as an example). 
I suggest you look carefully at community activity and make your own 
judgement about whether to trust the words - and practice - of a vendor 
salesperson.

I'm here in Japan this week, speaking to meetings of new Sakai adopters 
(Tokyo Metropolitan, Open University of Japan, Shibaura Institute of 
Technology) and others who have collaborated around Sakai for some time. 
I'll be frank; community driven initiatives don't always have the best 
publicity and marketing departments (in fact, we decided not to have 
such things a long time ago, to focus on the connections between users - 
teachers and learners - and products). They don't always exist solely in 
the United States, either.

So yes, we're a "cool concept". And we're still here, innovating for 
education, not for private purse. Glad you're on board.

Best

Ian

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Ian Dolphin
ian.dolphin at apereo.org



Gregory Guthrie wrote:
>
> I got an interesting comment from a Canvas LMS representative;
>
> “Sakai is such a cool concept but I do wonder where it will end up in 
> the future, as most it's founding schools (and the schools putting 
> resources into developing it) have now left and come to Canvas (U of 
> Indiana, U of Michigan, Stanford)…”
>
> I wondered what level of reality this statement has?
>
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