Sakai11 LA opensyllabus

OpenSyllabus: Building a Coherent Learning Environment in Sakai 2.x
Jacques Raynauld, Faculty, HEC Montréal
Martin Montminy, Business Analyst, HEC Montréal

Finally, open syllabus is now available … …first discussion at the Newport Beach Sakai conference in December 2007 
Thanks to the team!
12th Sakai Conference – Los Angeles, California – June 14-16
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Objectives of the session
Overview of a new course site authoringtool to organizequickly 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
Quick demo of the tool
Open Syllabus structure and architecture
Summary, roadmap and questions
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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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Good tool …. but unable to share the code for technical reasons
Spring 2007 : consensus to rewrite the program with a open source vision (Sakai)
CRIM and the University of Montreal joined the team and brought their expertise and their experience (use cases)
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Proof of concept at the Paris 2009 meetings
Beta version at the Boston 2009 meetings
Pilot in the 2010 Winter term
Report on the pilot in Denver 2010
Large roll-out in the Fall 2010 (10 000 students).

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 or toolintegration
Contact information
Objectives
Requirements (evaluation)
Grading
Collegepolicies
Schedule of readings, due date

Syllabi and Sakai
There is a need for a tool to organise all the resources (files, citations) and tools (test&quiz, assignments,etc.) in one easy to consult place
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Quick demo of the toolScreen cast http://vimeo.com/24932699Sand-box : http://osyltest.hec.ca
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Demo
We are going to demo a Sakai friendly version of Open Syllabus (not the one usedat HEC Montréal)
Works likeanyother Sakai Contribtool – easy to install – part of the list of tools
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Demo
Creation of an OpenSyllabus course site
Superbintegrationwithresources, citations and tools (entitypicker)
PDF printing
OpenSyllabus sites canbecopied (links to the tools are preserved)
Etc.
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Open Syllabus Architecture
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Open Syllabus architecture
Root
Structure
Unit
Context
Resource
SemanticorganizationmakesOpenSyllabus a verypowefull and evolutivetool (mobile version)
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OpenSyllabus Architecture
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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

OpenSyllabus Architecture
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

Summary, road map and questions
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10 good reasons for Open Syllabus
Studentrequest : Whatshould I do? Whereisit? Especially for distance learning!
Facultyrequests : keepit simple (training)!
Regularcontribtool … simple to makeitavailable
Thoroughlytested by 10 000 students and 500+ instructorsat HEC Montréal
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10 good reasons for Open Syllabus
Easy to modify the templates for the wording of your institution
Archive/Share/Export
Cuttingwork : PDF printing for students
Public gate for the community, future students, parents, etc.
Reporting : assessmentmethods, accreditation, Bologna, etc.
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10 good reasons for structuredsyllabi
Dynamic links to yourlibrarycatalog (Z39.50).
Sakai OAE ready!
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Road-map and questions
Availablenowfor Sakai 2.7
Migration to Sakai 2.8 coming
Plans for a mobile version
Othernicefeaturespresented by Martin Montminy – Life Cycle Management at HEC Montréal, Thursday 12:30:13:30, San Gabriel A
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Road-map and questions
Tech DemoWednesdayat 5pm
http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/OSYL/OpenSyllabus+Home
Sakai SVN – availablenow!
Video : http://vimeo.com/24932699
Test server : http://osyltest.hec.ca
jacques.raynauld@hec.ca
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