Presentation at EuroSakai 2010 (Valencia, Spain, March 2010) of the Sakai strategy at UPMC and our vision of the digital university.

1. Sakai strategy at UPMC-Paris 6
Yves Epelboin
Jean-François Lévêque
UPMC-Paris 6, Paris, France

2. Agenda
• UPMC vision
• Sakai integration at UPMC
• Practice
• Next…

3. A few data about UPMC
• Heir of the Faculty of Sciences of “La Sorbonne”
• 4 000 academic staff, 3 000 support staff
• 30 000 students (20 000 in Sciences, 10 000 in Medicine)
• A Research university:
• First French university in all international
rankings
• The largest offer at Master and PhD levels
in Sciences: 7 00 PhD/year (8% total French U.)
• 10 diploma at Bachelor level
• 10 diploma at master level
with 60 specialties

4. IT organization
CoStraSI
DSISG TICE
CoPil ENT Departments :
Administration
Library
Research
Teaching
…

5. Teaching at UPMC
• Computer literate
• Mostly interested in research, not in teaching:
• Few rewards for innovation in teaching
• Carrier based on research
• Students not too proactive
• Ask for conventional lectures
• Ask for written documents
• Not so much “digital native”
• Officially few students work part or full time

6. The university nightmares
• Multiple technologies
• Expertise of technical staff
• Multiplicity of platforms
• Staffing
• Confusion for teachers
• Multiplicity of tools
• Confusion for teachers
• Training
• Support
Standards!

7. The standards
• Confluence:
• Technology:
• Portal: uPortal
• VLE: Sakai
• Users
• Single password, single access
• All services accessible through the portal
• Sakai as a service in the portal

8. The vision
• One single point of entry both for staff and students
• Three levels of environment:
• University vision
• Teacher vision
• Personal vision
Portal
Learning
Environment
My space

9. Sakai INTEGRATION AT UPMC

10. Integration
Full hardware integration in ESUP/uPortal
IBM blade
center SAN
ESUP/uPortal
SAKAI
• Same hardware
architecture
• Database on the Same
storage system
• Four blades in parallel
for redundancy and
load balancing

11. Sakai integration
Announcements
workspace
courses

12. Sakai integration (2)
• A
Access to “full course”
Access to individual tools
• Courses appear
automatically after
opening
• Tools appear
automatically when
added

13. Criteria to open a course
1. Just need for a storage space?
– If yes use www.edu.upmc.fr
2. Need for public announcements?
– Use the website of your license/master…
3. Need for a website?
– Use the CMS in relationship with your role in the institution
4. Need for collaboration tools?
– Open a site in Sakai
5. Need for pedagogical tools?
– Open a course in Sakai

14. Course management
Professor asks for
course creation
through hotline
Support creates
course
Course available
to professor
through portal
Professor
manages course
Professor adds
teachers and
students
Students find the
course in the portal
uPortal

15. Course support
• Full manual in French:
http://wiki.cpm.jussieu.fr/doku.php?id=libre:sakai:table
• Hotline:
• Level 1: simple questions referring to manual
• Level 2
• Course opening
• Bugs
• Support
• Level 3
• Bugs, malfunctions…
• Referring to the community

16. Storage and video
Sakai
iTunesU
ESUP/uPortalVideolibrary
www.edu.upmc.fr

17. PRACTICE

18. Practice : level 1
• Resources
• Ask more than storage of documents
• Control yourself their use/date of availability…
• Problems when hiding
• Communications
1. Mail/announcements…
2. Chat, forum: seldom used except for distance learning
• Pedagogical path: Melete
•. A fundamental tool but poorly integrated into Sakai
•. Need for a more sophisticated one

19. Practice: level 2
• Tests and quizzes
• Use of various templates
• Problems for final exams
• A very appreciated tool
• Assignments
• A very popular tool
• Drop box (sometimes instead of assignments!)
• Calendar

20. Practice: level 3
• More sophisticated tests
• Gradebook
• Podcast: problem to control space for users
• Wiki, blog?
• Web pages…
• ….

21. Demands
Limitations:
• Information available from university directory
• Group constituency
• External participants
• Performances in exchanges with university directory
• WebDAV
• Large classes
• Better translation into French: problems in
internationalization
• More pleasant interface

22. Other uses
Continuous Education:
A Sakai course is not a course but a room.
Common rooms for all students:
1. Library: resources
2. Communication room: mail, chat…
Restricted rooms for each module:
3. Melete
4. Test & quizzes…

23. Use of Sakai
2006
2007-08
2008-09
2009-10
0
50
100
150
200
250
300
350
400
projects
courses
2006: WebCT
2007-2010: Sakai
More than 11 000 students
500 teachers

24. Some data

25. NEXT…

26. 2010 and next…
• Translation improvements: internationalization
• Replacements of old tools: Melete
• Better use of calendar
• New tools: EVO,Wims?
• A growing community at UPMC: 150 academic taught/year
• A growing community in France and elsewhere in Europe

27. SAKAI 3
• A more attractive interface
• Sakai 3: a personal space urgently needed but use unknown
BUT
• Sakai 3 is useless if all former tools are not
integrated
• In case Sakai 3 is not ready, Sakai 2.8 will be needed

28. Merci
Yves.Epelboin@upmc.fr
http://sgtice.upmc.fr
Thanks
Yves.epelboin@upmc.fr