Updates from the Sakai Teaching and Learning Group
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The Sakai Teaching and Learning Group has been engaged in a range of activities over the past year including developing a new "Learning Capability Review Process", leading the Teaching with Sakai Innovation Award program, sharing best practices via webinars and developing a vision for the future of Sakai. This session will provide a short presentation to update the community on these initiatives and then spend the remaining time discussing priorities and ideas for the coming year.
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Updates from the Sakai Teaching and Learning Group
- 1. Updates from the Sakai Teaching and Learning Group
- 2. Session Overview History and Background on Teaching and Learning Group Updates on 2013 – 2014 Initiatives • Teaching with Sakai Innovation Award (TWSIA) • Sakai Showcase Webinar Series • Next Generation LMS Visioning • T&L Capability Review Process New Initiative: Lessons Enhancement Project Goals and Initiatives for Next Year Please ask questions as we go!
- 3. Teaching and Learning Group History Formed in 2007 at Sakai Conference in Newport, CA Goal was to bring more of a teaching and learning voice to the Sakai Community Closely affiliated with the Portfolio group Has ebbed and flowed terms of size and activities
- 4. Past T&L Group Activities Teaching with Sakai Innovation Award • OpenEdPractices.org Teaching with Sakai Webinars Learning Design Lenses Support Documentation Student Involvement • Design or other competitions
- 5. Learning Design Lenses v1.0 Release
- 6. Teaching With Sakai Innovation Award TWSIA Annual competition-entries from all over the world TWSIA Committee Recognition of excellence in teaching and learning Categories 1. Traditional Higher Education (including web-enhanced courses) 2. Higher Education: Fully Online or Hybrid Course 3. Primary & Secondary Education (K-12) 4. Projects & Other Uses 5. Portfolios
- 7. Teaching With Sakai Innovation Award TWSIA http://www.apereo.org/twsia/ past-winners https://confluence.sakaiproject .org/display/PED/TWSIA+2014 TWSIA 2013 Winners Sponsored by Asahi Net International (ANI)
- 8. Sakai Showcase Webinar Series Hosted by Longsight Wilma Hodges Director of Training and eLearning Initiatives wilma@longsight.com
- 9. This Free Webinar Series: Covers a variety topics of interest to the Sakai community Offered approximately once a month (Jan. through Oct.) Upcoming sessions are announced on Sakai listservs Recordings of previous sessions are available on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/SakaiCLE Webinar info also available on our website: http://www.longsight.com/learning-center/news-events
- 10. Jan. 22 • “Using Sakai to Promote Inter-Institutional Collaboration” • Martin Ramsay, LAMP Consortium Feb. 26 • “The What, How and Why of Streaming Media in Sakai” • Dave Eveland, Johnson University Mar. 26 • “Designing MOOCs using Lesson Builder in Sakai” • Reba-Anna Lee, Marist College Apr. 23 • “Karuta Open Source Portfolio for LTI Integration with Sakai” • Janice Smith, Three Canoes & Jacques Raynauld, HEC Montreal May 28 • “ePortfolios and Sakai at Virginia Tech” • Marc Zaldivar, Virginia Tech
- 11. Jun. 25 • “The Future of Sakai” • Chuck Severance, University of Michigan Jul. 23 • “Sakai QA and Release Cycle Process” • Neal Caidin, Apereo Foundation Aug. 27 • TBA Sept. 24 • TBA Oct. 22 • TBA
- 12. Speakers for 2015… Maybe you! Contact Wilma Hodges wilma@longsight.com if you or someone you know would be interested in sharing best practices or innovative uses of Sakai at your institution or organization.
- 13. Next Generation LMS Visioning Where will the LMS market be in 5, 10 or 15 years? To learn more and discuss please attend Next Generation Sakai: A Community Dialog on a Vision for the Future (Tuesday 3 – 3:45 PM Symphony II)
- 14. T&L Capability Review Process Goal: Create feedback loop into development efforts by leverage the collective knowledge of the Sakai T&L community
- 15. Initial T&L Capability Review Idea Start Up: Engage with relevant developers/stakeholders Phase One: Preliminary brainstorming on enhancements • Community Check-in and comment periods Phase Two: User research and usability testing • Community Check-in and comment periods Phase Three: Release Review Report and seek funding T&L Capability Wiki: https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/x/QwzzB
- 16. T&L Capability Proof-of-Concept Decided to focus on Lessons/Lesson Builder • Relatively new tool gaining a lot of attention and interest Engaged with Charles Hedrick and TCC/PMC • Received encouraging feedback as well as important input • History of unfunded mandates was shared Began initial Phase One activities in December 2013 Documented brainstorming ideas in Google Spreadsheet
- 17. T&L Capability Proof-of-Concept Initial Assessment Not sure if use of spreadsheets was the best approach • Not easy to format and comment, became unwieldy Discussed and debated importance of “user stories” Decided that it was best to focus on UI improvements • New capabilities would create more UI complexity Clearly needed expert UX design resources to be involved • As well as UI developer resources
- 18. Lessons Enhancement Project T&L Group Special Meeting in March 2014 • Outcome was decision to focus on major redesign of UI • Discussed with Charles Hedrick at Rutgers who agreed Engaged Sam Peck, UX Designer for Sakai and OAE • Estimation of Design report identified cost $25k Currently seeking ~$35k for Lesson Enhancement Project • Goal is to complete work by mid-Fall for inclusion in Sakai 11 Lessons Enhancement Project Wiki: https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/x/C4CLBQ
- 20. Discussion on Focus for 2014- 15 Teaching with Sakai Innovation Award • Changes for next year? “Apereo Innovation Award”? Webinar Showcase Series • New topics for next year? Topics? Lessons Enhancement Project • How to best collaborate? Engage the larger community? New ideas or areas of focus? – Next Gen LMS?
- 21. Please plan to join our next Teaching and Learning conference call! Wednesday, June 11th 2:00 - 3:00 PM Eastern Time Call-in information and notetaking Etherpad at: https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/x/BwrzB
Editor's Notes
- The Teaching With Sakai Innovation Award (TWSIA) competition began seven years ago as an initiative of the Teaching and Learning group. We generally get entries from all over the world, where people are using the Sakai CLE or the Apereo OAE. The TWSIA committee which is made up of individuals in the Sakai community—all volunteers—is responsible for preparing the website to receive entries, to work out the entry forms and processes, and later to review the entries and make selections. We use a rating system and the entries with the highest ratings are chosen as winners. Our committee also has an international flavor—this year we have members from South Africa and from Argentina. Winners are traditionally recognized at our annual conferences, and also give a presentation on their course or project. These are great sessions to attend as you can learn from them and can ask questions about what they did, how they did it and so on. The intent of the award is to recognize excellence in teaching and learning and we currently have five categories which are Traditional Higher Education (including web-enhanced courses) Higher Education: Fully Online or Hybrid Course Primary & Secondary Education (K-12) Projects & Other Uses Portfolios
- Last years winners came from Amsterdam and Cape Town South Africa. This year our winners are all from the United States. You can find out about them and winners from past years at the Apereo TWSIA pages. The committee communicates through email and we have phone conference calls. We also maintain a Confluence page where a lot of the details of what we do are available, including links to our meeting notes, revisions and final documents that we use such as the entry form and so on. There is also a list of the committee available there. Speaking of the committee, we really need more volunteers, so whether you are a faculty member, someone who works with faculty, if you are a member of the Sakai and OAE communities then we certainly want you to join us! It is a really enlightening and enjoyable task to read the entries because you learn so much about teaching and learning. So if you have an interest, please come and talk to me or go the our confluence page which has my email, and email me. One last very important point is that our sponsor this year and for the last two years has been Asahi Net International ANI. It is through their sponsorship that we can bring the TWSIA winners to the conference—so we are very grateful to them.
- For the last 15 – 20 years the LMS market has been primarily focused on the Monolithic LMS model…that being the idea that we should build all of the tools and capabilities instructors and learners will ever need into one large enterprise system. Myself and I think many others are now starting to wonder if this is the right model for the next 10 – 20 years?
- For the last 15 – 20 years the LMS market has been primarily focused on the Monolithic LMS model…that being the idea that we should build all of the tools and capabilities instructors and learners will ever need into one large enterprise system. Myself and I think many others are now starting to wonder if this is the right model for the next 10 – 20 years?