Sakai and EQUELLA: CSU’s Integrated Digital Repository Solution

Sakai and EQUELLA: CSU’s Integrated Digital Repository Solution Sam Parker, CSU Dan McFadyen, TLEI AuSakai 2009 Sam Parker & Dan McFadyen

Agenda

CSU Vision for Integrated Solution

EQUELLA: Content As A Platform

EQUELLA Demonstration

Current State of CSU Solution

Future Evolution

Q&A

AuSakai 2009 Sam Parker & Dan McFadyen

CSU Vision for Integrated Solution

Easy provisioning of centrally developed Subject/Course resources

Enabling Academics to contribute items from EQUELLA to various collections

Enabling Academics to easily link a range of resources to EQUELLA from Sakai

EQUELLA Tool facilities

Links with EQUELLA items are stored in a folder within the resources tool

The tool name and resource folder name can be customised at a global level.

Recent EQUELLA tool advances

Ability to stealth tool from students view only output is shown, requested by CSU

Recently contributed items list for easy linkage, part of a new EQUELLA release

TLEI, EQUELLA, & Our Clients

The Learning Edge International (Asia Pacific)

Australian company, founded in 2002

Australian market leader

75% of Australian TAFE systems

45% of Australian universities

Asia: Clients in Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia, and Japan

The Learning Edge North America

Significant state-based initiatives, as well as universities

Florida Distance Learning - 230,000 educators and approximately 2 million students from K-20

North Carolina Community College System - 58 community colleges and over 900,000 students

The Learning Edge Europe

University, college, and school clients

Award-Winning Software AuSakai 2009 Sam Parker & Dan McFadyen

IMS Leadership Award 2009 - Best Institutional Repository

iAwards 2009 (State & National Winner)

Tasmanian Exporter of the Year (2008)

Tasmanian ICT Exporter of Year (2007/8)

IMS Learning Impact Award – Global (2008)

IMS Learning Impact Award – Australia (2008)

C-Star Award 2007

“ EQUELLA allows us to have one repository for the whole institution . Through the concept of collections we can organise, secure and personalise access to content for all constituents of our institution both internal like the library, research and eLearning departments as well as external” Professor David Morris, Coventry University

AuSakai 2009 Sam Parker & Dan McFadyen SECURITY Content Search Engine EQUELLA Agents Learning Management Systems Web 2.0 Applications Library Systems CRM systems Authoring Tools Other Digital Repositories Consortia Institution Users Campus

EQUELLA Demonstration AuSakai 2009 Sam Parker & Dan McFadyen

Current state of CSU Solution

Moving toward rollout of various collections, including a major production collection

EQUELLA Sakai tool will be a pilot tool only selectable by academics when part of a pilot

Future evolution

Thinking around push not just pull technology for provisioning EQUELLA resources

EQUELLA allows a resource selector item where an item can contain links to other items, we are exploring how to harness this to expedite the provisioning process

Future evolution (cont.)

If these resource selector items could contain metadata about a particular cohort of students, be monitored and picked up by the Sakai tool or intermediate process it would allow for: