Open Syllabus in Sakai 2.6: up and running

Open Syllabus in Sakai 2.6 : up and running
Jacques Raynauld – faculty
HEC Montréal
June 15 2010

Objectives of the session
Overview of a new syllabus authoringtool to organize all your Sakai resources and tools
Convince you of the importance of using some kind of structure or semantic approach for Sakai course websites
Faculty? Teaching Support? IT? Deans? Students?
Possible Sakai adoption?
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11th Sakai Conference - June 15-17, 2010

Outline
HEC Montréal and the origins of the project
Syllabi and Sakai
Open Syllabus structure and architecture
Quick demo of the tool
Summary, roadmap and questions
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HEC Montréal and the origin of the project
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Large business school
Part of the University of Montreal campus
12 000 students
250 career professors
500 adjuncts
4 000 full time undergraduate students
Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise Campus Solutions
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Origins of the project
Learning material disseminated in various course web sites …
Very confusing for the staff, the students and the public …
Development of an in-house easy-to-use Web platform to build a centralized electronic syllabi web depot
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http://zonecours.hec.ca
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http://zonecours.hec.ca
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One location
Public and student access
Common interface
95% of the course websites are up and running in Zone Cours
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Good tool …. but unable to share the code for technical reasons
Spring 2007 : consensus to rewrite the program with a open source vision (Sakai)
CRIMand the University of Montreal joined the team and brought their expertise and their experience (use cases)
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Presentation of the beta version at the Boston meetings
HEC pilot in the 2010 Winter term. Large roll-out in the Fall.
University of Montréal pilot in the Summer and Fall terms.

Syllabi and Sakai
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Syllabi and Sakai
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PDF - paper
Ressources - web
Contact information
Objectives
Requirements (evaluation)
Grading
College policies
Schedule of readings, due date
Documents to download (pdf, ppt, doc, etc.)
Citations
Hyperlinks
Assignments
Quizzes
Discussion Boards
Etc.

Syllabi and Sakai
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PDF - paper
Actual Syllabus tool in Sakai
Post a doc or PDF file
Use an editor
No semantic
Contact information
Objectives
Requirements (evaluation)
Grading
Collegepolicies
Schedule of readings, due date

Syllabi and Sakai
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Ressources - web
Documents to download (pdf, ppt, doc, etc.)
Citations
Hyperlinks
Assignments
Discussion Boards
Etc.
Stanford U. , Coursework User Guide

Syllabi and Sakai
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Sakai Courseware Management - The Official Guide, p. 170.

Syllabi and Sakai
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FacultyShowcase: Amanda Cecil, Using Oncourse CL to choreograph teachable moments in online courses, Indiana University, On Course

Open Syllabus Architecture
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Gerbé and Raynauld, An Open Syllabus Model, Ed-Media 2009, Honolulu.

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Sakai Tools - Services
Sakaï Server
Open Syllabus Server
Open Syllabus Client – Google Web Tool kit
Exchange of XML files betweenOpen syllabus server and client
Open Syllabus public gate
HTML site createdfrom the XML file

Citation Z39.50 Connector:
MetaSearch
Engine
(SirsiSingleSearch, Web2Bridge …)
HTTP
Or
Z39.50
Etc. …
Linking to Library Resources: Workarounds and Z39.50 Connectors in Sakai
Mame Awa Diop
Z39.50
Z35.50 Connector
Z39.50
Library of Congress

Z39.50 Connector
Allows access to computer databases accessible trough the Z39.50 client server-protocol such as library catalogue.
Allows a faster integration of the citation helper tool
Integrated Library System
Z39.50
Repository OSID
Implementation
Z39.50 communications protocol
OSID CALL
OSID RETURN

Links to library resources
Creates a link to the institution’s library catalogue.
Allows students easier and faster access to library resources.
SFX - OpenUrl
Articles
Library catalog
Books and others

Quick demo of the toolhttp://vimeo.com/12495226
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Demo
Description of the editing page – buttons – tree panel (news, listof the lectures) and Sakai tools. View all. The structure and the wordingscanbetaylored to eachuniversityneeds.
Adding a description in the Presentationsection
Adding a contact
Adding a textbookcitation to Course Material
Adding a Forum to Course Material
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Demo
Seeingthe content of lecture 2 (objective, citation, file, url, exercice)
Addinga lecture : The pricemechanism
Addingthe objectives
Adding an article – public – mandatory
Addinga document – private – recommended
Addinga quiz – rubric exercice – private – complementary
Movinga quiz to lecture 1
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Demo
Discussing the evaluation section – very important for program design – the mostsemantic
Editingan evaluation (evaluation type, addingelectronicsubmission,etc.)
Addingan evaluationcriteria
Addingan electronicsubmission (assignment)

Demo
Adding a cluster
Moving a lecture
Addinganother cluster
Preview
Publish
OsylManager (Briefly)

Summary, road map and questions
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10 good reasons for Open Syllabus
Studentrequest : Whatshould I do? Whereisit?
Facultyrequests : keepit simple (training)!
Easy to modifythe templates and keepingtheirsemantic (lectures, themes, modules, etc.)
Peak-load solution (GWT client)
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10 good reasons for Open Syllabus
Archive/Share/Import/Export :
Lectures/Modules withinyouruniversity
Across the Sakai community
Easy migration for us
Public gate for the community, future students, parents, etc.
Cuttingwork : PDF printing for students
Reporting: assessmentmethods, accreditation, Bologna, etc.
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10 good reasons for structuredsyllabi
Dynamiclinks to yourlibrarycatalog (Z39.50).
Easy to launch a small pilot
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Road-map and questions
Availablenowfor Sakai 2.6
Migration to Sakai 2.7 coming
Sakai 3.0 isnaturalstepsinceOpenSyllabus has REST architecture and couldbetransformed in a Open Social Gadget
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Road-map and questions
Tech DemoWednesday
http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/OSYL/OpenSyllabus+Home
Video: http://vimeo.com/12495226
Test server : http://osyltest.hec.ca
jacques.raynauld@hec.ca
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