This is a summary of my Sakai 2.9 portal plans. I will be doing this work in the context of a course I am teaching in Winter 2011 - www.dr-chuck.com/si791-sak/ - members of the Sakai community are welcome to join my course.
Activiti - the Open Source Business Process Management platform by AlfrescoAmplexor
Introduction to Alfresco ECM and Activiti, the open source Business Process Management Platform by Alfresco.
Presented at the Amplexor seminar on Case Management, 15 september 2011, Brussels
This document discusses using a process engine like Activiti for building workflows and automating business processes. It highlights benefits like rapid prototyping through visual process modeling, prebuilt activities, and improving communication between business and IT. Activiti provides a BPMN 2.0 standards-based process engine that can be deployed anywhere and has advanced tooling. The document also outlines how Activiti enables collaborative case management through features like shared context, comments, and linking to other systems and content.
RESTful Work Items: Opening up Collaborative ALM (Rational Software Conferen...Steve Speicher
This document summarizes a presentation about RESTful work items and opening up collaborative application lifecycle management (ALM). It discusses the problem of integrating many different ALM tools, proposes using open standards like OSLC to define REST APIs, and demos integrating Tasktop and ClearQuest using OSLC. The presentation outlines the current state of the OSLC Change Management specification, previews upcoming version 2.0, and concludes by discussing next steps for OSLC adoption.
The document summarizes the history and architecture of Sakai releases. Key points include:
- Sakai 1.0 and 1.5 used an older "monolithic" framework that was improved over time but became difficult to maintain.
- Sakai 2.0 introduced a new Framework II with a re-factored, more modular architecture using Spring and components for improved isolation, flexibility and maintenance.
- Sakai 2.0 focused on integrating new tools like Gradebook and improving existing tools while transitioning to the new framework. More changes are still planned to further improve the architecture.
This document summarizes presentations on integrating SCORM (Sharable Content Object Reference Model) content into the Sakai learning management system. It discusses the current state of SCORM support in Sakai, including players from UC Davis and rSmart/Icodeon. It also covers plans and recommendations from SoftChalk and Rustici for improving SCORM integration and interoperability. Key topics included improving the SCORM player, addressing data and gradebook integration issues, and monitoring developments in the IMS Learning Tools Interoperability standard.
BlackBerry10: BlackBerry WebWorks Developer Who Wishes to Build a "Built For BlackBerry (BFB)"
Speaker: Ranbijay Kumar
Virtual Program - with shortlisted academic engineering students.
This document provides an overview of ADF task flows for beginners. It defines task flows as the visual representation of an application's process flow. It describes the two main types of task flows - unbounded and bounded task flows - and their key differences. The document outlines the main components used to build task flows, such as view activities, method call activities, router activities, and task flow call activities. It provides tips for building reusable task flows, such as using input parameters, router activities as defaults, and dynamic regions. Finally, it briefly describes a demo example of different secured and reusable task flows.
Activiti - the Open Source Business Process Management platform by AlfrescoAmplexor
Introduction to Alfresco ECM and Activiti, the open source Business Process Management Platform by Alfresco.
Presented at the Amplexor seminar on Case Management, 15 september 2011, Brussels
This document discusses using a process engine like Activiti for building workflows and automating business processes. It highlights benefits like rapid prototyping through visual process modeling, prebuilt activities, and improving communication between business and IT. Activiti provides a BPMN 2.0 standards-based process engine that can be deployed anywhere and has advanced tooling. The document also outlines how Activiti enables collaborative case management through features like shared context, comments, and linking to other systems and content.
RESTful Work Items: Opening up Collaborative ALM (Rational Software Conferen...Steve Speicher
This document summarizes a presentation about RESTful work items and opening up collaborative application lifecycle management (ALM). It discusses the problem of integrating many different ALM tools, proposes using open standards like OSLC to define REST APIs, and demos integrating Tasktop and ClearQuest using OSLC. The presentation outlines the current state of the OSLC Change Management specification, previews upcoming version 2.0, and concludes by discussing next steps for OSLC adoption.
The document summarizes the history and architecture of Sakai releases. Key points include:
- Sakai 1.0 and 1.5 used an older "monolithic" framework that was improved over time but became difficult to maintain.
- Sakai 2.0 introduced a new Framework II with a re-factored, more modular architecture using Spring and components for improved isolation, flexibility and maintenance.
- Sakai 2.0 focused on integrating new tools like Gradebook and improving existing tools while transitioning to the new framework. More changes are still planned to further improve the architecture.
This document summarizes presentations on integrating SCORM (Sharable Content Object Reference Model) content into the Sakai learning management system. It discusses the current state of SCORM support in Sakai, including players from UC Davis and rSmart/Icodeon. It also covers plans and recommendations from SoftChalk and Rustici for improving SCORM integration and interoperability. Key topics included improving the SCORM player, addressing data and gradebook integration issues, and monitoring developments in the IMS Learning Tools Interoperability standard.
BlackBerry10: BlackBerry WebWorks Developer Who Wishes to Build a "Built For BlackBerry (BFB)"
Speaker: Ranbijay Kumar
Virtual Program - with shortlisted academic engineering students.
This document provides an overview of ADF task flows for beginners. It defines task flows as the visual representation of an application's process flow. It describes the two main types of task flows - unbounded and bounded task flows - and their key differences. The document outlines the main components used to build task flows, such as view activities, method call activities, router activities, and task flow call activities. It provides tips for building reusable task flows, such as using input parameters, router activities as defaults, and dynamic regions. Finally, it briefly describes a demo example of different secured and reusable task flows.
The document discusses recent implementations of IMS Global Basic Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) standards in the Jenzabar learning management system (LMS). It describes the benefits of LTI for integrating third-party tools and content into various LMSs using a common standard. It then provides examples of LTI implementations between the Jenzabar LMS and external tools like LectureTools and LearningObjects.
Research Topic: Creating a Market for Innovation in Teaching and LearningCharles Severance
This is a short talk I gave to describe my research areas for the University of Michigan School of Information visiting days for prospective students. I talked about my interested in software for teaching and learning and standard for that software as well as approaches to teaching first technoloyg courses
This was given 2012-Oct-30 in Andorra at the SIEE 12 conference. This was s little over-the-top even for me. At least it is thought-provoking. I think that I need to make it more tangible and real.
I gave this talk about IMS Basic Tools Interoperability at UMassOnline. It was the first time I could give the talk with 100% working video and audio. So it was the debut of of the Mandy Web 2.0 account pain video.
The document provides an overview of the Sakai community and project. It discusses the origins of Sakai as an open-source collaboration and learning environment started in 2003 by several universities. It notes that the Sakai Foundation was established in 2005 to provide coordination, infrastructure, licensing, and conferences for the community. Key facts presented include that Sakai has around 300-350 installations worldwide, strong attendance at international conferences, and ongoing development work.
This document summarizes Dr. Charles Severance's work over the past 20 years developing open source education technologies and standards. It shows his early work developing asynchronous video courses in the late 1990s, contributions to the Sakai and Moodle open source projects, and leadership in establishing the IMS Learning Tools Interoperability standard in the late 2000s to allow tools to integrate with learning management systems. More recently, his goal has been to create an "app store for learning applications" to empower teachers and learners to easily find, use, and create new educational technologies.
LTI Update at the IMS QUarterly Meeting, Utrecht, NLCharles Severance
The document discusses Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI), which is a standard way for external applications to integrate with online learning systems. It proposes a "Basic LTI" subset that allows tools and content providers to build simple integrations with any learning management system (LMS) that supports the standard. This Basic LTI can then be expanded over time with features like outcome reporting and connections to learning record services. Sample code and certification processes are being developed to help support adoption.
This is my talk from the 2011 Blackboard Developer's Conference July 11, 2011. It was a lot of fun and ended with a chaotic demo of a new feature connecting Sakai and Blackboard CourseSItes. Recorded version of this coming.
Impact Well-Beyond Market Share: Synergy Between Open Source and StandardsCharles Severance
This document summarizes Dr. Charles Severance's work over 20 years to promote open standards and interoperability between learning tools and systems. It shows his involvement in early online learning projects in the 1990s, the development of the Learning Tools Interoperability specification in the 2000s, and his role in evangelizing Simple LTI and Basic LTI to achieve widespread adoption across both open source and proprietary learning platforms by 2010. The overarching goal was to empower teachers and learners by giving them more choice and control over the tools and technologies used for teaching and learning.
1) The summary discusses a Friday session notes document that outlines an agenda including a discussion on Sakai 3 and why it is happening now from 9:30-10:30am and closing remarks at 3:15pm.
2) It also provides room location notes for where various sessions will take place.
3) The document then goes into details on the goals and new features of Sakai 3 from a user, technology and community perspective focusing on improved content management, academic networking and workflows across tools.
1) The summary discusses a Friday session notes document covering topics from 9:30-10:30am including a discussion on College of the Redwoods' Sakai deployment and closing remarks at 3:15pm.
2) It provides room location notes for the Empress room on the 14th floor and Charles View room on the 16th floor.
3) The document discusses reasons for Sakai 3 including functionality and user experience improvements, using new technologies, and adapting to changing community practices and culture.
This document discusses plans for the next generation of the Sakai learning management system called Sakai 3. It outlines goals of making Sakai more user-friendly in line with modern web standards, improving the development process, and separating the front-end and back-end for a more balanced team. Wireframes and visual designs were created by a consultant to improve the user experience. Development is ongoing on a new back-end called K2 with the goals of a cleaner interface, standards compliance, and improved scalability. A hybrid production version is planned for late 2009 with a full standalone version in mid-2010.
Service Integration Goes Social - Solutions Linux 2012 (OW2 Track)Marc Dutoo
EasySOA - making service oriented architecture (SOA) simple to use for all actors, through a documentation-oriented, agile, online & collaborative approach.
Progress status, demo videos, Talend & Eclipse SOA integration, 0.4 release preview (sanity check dashboard & report).
This document contains a summary of a presentation by Peter Ward on modern SharePoint sites. Some key points covered include:
- Modern sites use a "hub" navigation model where sites are more loosely connected than classic sites.
- The modern look and feel integrates well with mobile devices and Office 365 tools like Teams and Groups.
- Branding is less customizable out of the box in modern sites compared to classic sites which use master pages.
- Modern sites have easier content navigation and moving/copying of items between locations.
AUSPC 2011: How we did it: NothingButSharePoint.comJeremy Thake
Jeremy Thake presented on how the global community website NothingButSharePoint.com was built on the SharePoint 2010 platform. Key aspects included migrating existing content from other systems, using SharePoint 2010's web content management and publishing features, developing extensions like for comments and analytics, and leveraging tools like Visual Studio and PowerShell for implementation. Challenges included working with limitations of SharePoint 2010 and coordinating developers and designers. Lessons learned were about setting clear expectations, plans, and communication across the team.
- Sakai is an open source course management system started in 2004 by 5 universities to share costs and knowledge. It has grown to over 200 institutions worldwide.
- Sakai 3 aims to improve scalability, developer productivity, and code quality. It will break down barriers between sites, emphasize academic networking between users, and support more flexible workflows across tools.
- Sakai 3 will have a more modular architecture, use JSON and a unified content repository to separate UI and services. It seeks to configure for different needs and integrate with other applications.
Service Integration Goes Social with EasySOA - OpenWorldForum 2011Marc Dutoo
Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) involves complex technologies and, when done right, actors from the whole spectrum between business and IT. And it gets harder with new IT challenges such as cloud, agility and business architecture. How can we make SOA scale up ?
With the EasySOA project (*), Open Wide, Talend, Nuxeo, Bull and the INRIA labs bring a new component in the answer : an online, social, collaborative approach gathering business users and IT staff as well as SOA architects and developers. This allows on one side to add a lighter, agile SOA layer around « traditional » SOA, and on the other to provide an SOA framework that is really simple to use.
In this presentation, Cédric Carbone (Talend CTO) and Alain Boulze (EasiFab founder) team with Marc Dutoo (R&D head at Open Wide & EasySOA leader) to show how managing SOA in a collaborative platform such as Nuxeo DM can improve visibility and business relevance of SOA. It will then focus on how this fosters collaboration on business requirements and fast prototyping, and how a tailored, OSGi-embedded entreprise service bus (ESB) can provide an useful "SOA sandbox". It will conclude by showing how it can branch out to an « on demand » Open Source solution, through a use case demonstrating seamless integration with a "traditional", industry-grade SOA platform such as Talend Service Integration.
(*) http://www.easysoa.org - http://github.com/easysoa
The document discusses recent implementations of IMS Global Basic Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) standards in the Jenzabar learning management system (LMS). It describes the benefits of LTI for integrating third-party tools and content into various LMSs using a common standard. It then provides examples of LTI implementations between the Jenzabar LMS and external tools like LectureTools and LearningObjects.
Research Topic: Creating a Market for Innovation in Teaching and LearningCharles Severance
This is a short talk I gave to describe my research areas for the University of Michigan School of Information visiting days for prospective students. I talked about my interested in software for teaching and learning and standard for that software as well as approaches to teaching first technoloyg courses
This was given 2012-Oct-30 in Andorra at the SIEE 12 conference. This was s little over-the-top even for me. At least it is thought-provoking. I think that I need to make it more tangible and real.
I gave this talk about IMS Basic Tools Interoperability at UMassOnline. It was the first time I could give the talk with 100% working video and audio. So it was the debut of of the Mandy Web 2.0 account pain video.
The document provides an overview of the Sakai community and project. It discusses the origins of Sakai as an open-source collaboration and learning environment started in 2003 by several universities. It notes that the Sakai Foundation was established in 2005 to provide coordination, infrastructure, licensing, and conferences for the community. Key facts presented include that Sakai has around 300-350 installations worldwide, strong attendance at international conferences, and ongoing development work.
This document summarizes Dr. Charles Severance's work over the past 20 years developing open source education technologies and standards. It shows his early work developing asynchronous video courses in the late 1990s, contributions to the Sakai and Moodle open source projects, and leadership in establishing the IMS Learning Tools Interoperability standard in the late 2000s to allow tools to integrate with learning management systems. More recently, his goal has been to create an "app store for learning applications" to empower teachers and learners to easily find, use, and create new educational technologies.
LTI Update at the IMS QUarterly Meeting, Utrecht, NLCharles Severance
The document discusses Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI), which is a standard way for external applications to integrate with online learning systems. It proposes a "Basic LTI" subset that allows tools and content providers to build simple integrations with any learning management system (LMS) that supports the standard. This Basic LTI can then be expanded over time with features like outcome reporting and connections to learning record services. Sample code and certification processes are being developed to help support adoption.
This is my talk from the 2011 Blackboard Developer's Conference July 11, 2011. It was a lot of fun and ended with a chaotic demo of a new feature connecting Sakai and Blackboard CourseSItes. Recorded version of this coming.
Impact Well-Beyond Market Share: Synergy Between Open Source and StandardsCharles Severance
This document summarizes Dr. Charles Severance's work over 20 years to promote open standards and interoperability between learning tools and systems. It shows his involvement in early online learning projects in the 1990s, the development of the Learning Tools Interoperability specification in the 2000s, and his role in evangelizing Simple LTI and Basic LTI to achieve widespread adoption across both open source and proprietary learning platforms by 2010. The overarching goal was to empower teachers and learners by giving them more choice and control over the tools and technologies used for teaching and learning.
1) The summary discusses a Friday session notes document that outlines an agenda including a discussion on Sakai 3 and why it is happening now from 9:30-10:30am and closing remarks at 3:15pm.
2) It also provides room location notes for where various sessions will take place.
3) The document then goes into details on the goals and new features of Sakai 3 from a user, technology and community perspective focusing on improved content management, academic networking and workflows across tools.
1) The summary discusses a Friday session notes document covering topics from 9:30-10:30am including a discussion on College of the Redwoods' Sakai deployment and closing remarks at 3:15pm.
2) It provides room location notes for the Empress room on the 14th floor and Charles View room on the 16th floor.
3) The document discusses reasons for Sakai 3 including functionality and user experience improvements, using new technologies, and adapting to changing community practices and culture.
This document discusses plans for the next generation of the Sakai learning management system called Sakai 3. It outlines goals of making Sakai more user-friendly in line with modern web standards, improving the development process, and separating the front-end and back-end for a more balanced team. Wireframes and visual designs were created by a consultant to improve the user experience. Development is ongoing on a new back-end called K2 with the goals of a cleaner interface, standards compliance, and improved scalability. A hybrid production version is planned for late 2009 with a full standalone version in mid-2010.
Service Integration Goes Social - Solutions Linux 2012 (OW2 Track)Marc Dutoo
EasySOA - making service oriented architecture (SOA) simple to use for all actors, through a documentation-oriented, agile, online & collaborative approach.
Progress status, demo videos, Talend & Eclipse SOA integration, 0.4 release preview (sanity check dashboard & report).
This document contains a summary of a presentation by Peter Ward on modern SharePoint sites. Some key points covered include:
- Modern sites use a "hub" navigation model where sites are more loosely connected than classic sites.
- The modern look and feel integrates well with mobile devices and Office 365 tools like Teams and Groups.
- Branding is less customizable out of the box in modern sites compared to classic sites which use master pages.
- Modern sites have easier content navigation and moving/copying of items between locations.
AUSPC 2011: How we did it: NothingButSharePoint.comJeremy Thake
Jeremy Thake presented on how the global community website NothingButSharePoint.com was built on the SharePoint 2010 platform. Key aspects included migrating existing content from other systems, using SharePoint 2010's web content management and publishing features, developing extensions like for comments and analytics, and leveraging tools like Visual Studio and PowerShell for implementation. Challenges included working with limitations of SharePoint 2010 and coordinating developers and designers. Lessons learned were about setting clear expectations, plans, and communication across the team.
- Sakai is an open source course management system started in 2004 by 5 universities to share costs and knowledge. It has grown to over 200 institutions worldwide.
- Sakai 3 aims to improve scalability, developer productivity, and code quality. It will break down barriers between sites, emphasize academic networking between users, and support more flexible workflows across tools.
- Sakai 3 will have a more modular architecture, use JSON and a unified content repository to separate UI and services. It seeks to configure for different needs and integrate with other applications.
Service Integration Goes Social with EasySOA - OpenWorldForum 2011Marc Dutoo
Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) involves complex technologies and, when done right, actors from the whole spectrum between business and IT. And it gets harder with new IT challenges such as cloud, agility and business architecture. How can we make SOA scale up ?
With the EasySOA project (*), Open Wide, Talend, Nuxeo, Bull and the INRIA labs bring a new component in the answer : an online, social, collaborative approach gathering business users and IT staff as well as SOA architects and developers. This allows on one side to add a lighter, agile SOA layer around « traditional » SOA, and on the other to provide an SOA framework that is really simple to use.
In this presentation, Cédric Carbone (Talend CTO) and Alain Boulze (EasiFab founder) team with Marc Dutoo (R&D head at Open Wide & EasySOA leader) to show how managing SOA in a collaborative platform such as Nuxeo DM can improve visibility and business relevance of SOA. It will then focus on how this fosters collaboration on business requirements and fast prototyping, and how a tailored, OSGi-embedded entreprise service bus (ESB) can provide an useful "SOA sandbox". It will conclude by showing how it can branch out to an « on demand » Open Source solution, through a use case demonstrating seamless integration with a "traditional", industry-grade SOA platform such as Talend Service Integration.
(*) http://www.easysoa.org - http://github.com/easysoa
CCLA, a UK fund manager, implemented Oracle WebCenter Portal Spaces to improve collaboration and project management. Spaces provided out-of-the-box features like wikis, blogs and forums. It was customized with an intranet homepage and "Hot Topics" template for projects. Custom widgets were also developed, like task summaries. This provided employees a single portal for collaboration and allowed standardized, database-backed project creation and management.
OCTO On-Site Off-Site Update on D8 RoadmapAngela Byron
This document provides an overview of the Drupal 8 roadmap and initiatives from the Office of the CTO (OCTO). It introduces the OCTO team and their roles in accelerating Drupal 8 initiatives like the 8.5 release. It outlines 8 major goals for D8.5 including stabilizing the migration path, improving the media and API functionality, and introducing new features like layouts, workflows and an improved front-end experience. It notes uncertainties in the D8 release process but provides ways for people to stay updated on the progress.
KNOWAGE is the open source analytics and business intelligence suite made in Italy. KNOWAGE aims to provide company and organizations with analytical capabilities to exploit data to increase their efficiency and sustainability. Also thanks to the open source community support, the suite is constantly evolving combining the reliability of the most popular business intelligence solutions with the security and the transparency guaranteed by open source.
This talk will show the last year advancements and new features towards a more mobile, accessible and user-friendly product, focusing on the newly rewritten dashboarding tool.
This document contains a summary of a presentation on modern SharePoint sites. It discusses key differences between classic and modern sites, challenges with customizing modern sites, and how to get started with modern SharePoint development using tools like SharePoint Framework (SPFx) and Yeoman. It provides links to resources on setting up a development environment, planning hub sites, and building web parts with Angular and React. The presenter encourages attendees to check his blog for additional information on modern SharePoint and code examples.
Going from Classic to Modern. 10 Things you must know before you commitspsnyc
This document contains a summary of a presentation about modern SharePoint sites. It discusses some key differences between classic and modern sites, including easier navigation with hubs in modern sites. It also covers challenges with branding and customization in modern sites compared to classic sites which use master pages. The document provides recommendations on where to start with modern SharePoint development and code examples.
Sakai Perspectives discusses the history and goals of the Sakai open source learning management system project. It began in 2004 with 5 universities collaborating on a common course management system. The Sakai Foundation was later formed to coordinate development and support adoption. Sakai 3 represents a major redesign, moving to a more modern technical architecture using Apache Sling and separating the user experience from the backend. This is intended to improve scalability, developer productivity, and the user experience with a focus on academic workflows over individual tools.
The document provides a preview of new features in Oracle APEX 5.0 including enhanced page designer, drag and drop components, multi-select components, auto-complete features, and responsive design. It also discusses Oracle's cloud strategy including common services across applications, both on-premise and cloud delivery options, and a new simplified user interface being released first for HCM Cloud and Sales Cloud. The document leaves some questions unanswered regarding release timing and specifications for various cloud services and products.
Oracle SOA Suite 11g - high level introduction on behalf of WAAILucas Jellema
The document provides an overview and agenda for discussing the upcoming Oracle SOA Suite 11g release of Fusion Middleware. It outlines the history and trends influencing SOA Suite, including acquisitions and a focus on processes and events. Key features of the 11g release include improved support for service component architecture, mediation, human tasks, events, and integration with other suites. Demos are planned for composite applications using mediators, BPEL, and adapters, as well as the new event delivery network. Benefits over the 10g release include easier design and administration with consolidated components and new functionality. Adoption of the 11g beta is recommended starting now, with a general availability expected in summer 2009.
The document provides an introduction to Lightning Web Components (LWC) presented by Mohith Shrivastava. The presentation covers the core elements of web components including templates, custom elements, shadow DOM and ES modules. It compares LWC to standard web components and Aura components. The presentation demonstrates building a simple LWC and explores LWC properties and Lightning Data Services. It provides references for learning more about LWC.
LTI Advantage: The Next Big Thing in LMS IntegrationCharles Severance
LTI Advantage is the next major integration standard for learning management systems (LMS). It uses new technologies like JSON Web Tokens (JWTs) and public/private key infrastructure (PKI) to securely launch tools and access user data and grading services. The presentation provides an overview of the LTI Advantage specification and code samples for implementing launches, user authorization, and accessing LMS services using libraries available in Java. While adoption of LTI Advantage promises tighter integration between LMSs and external tools, there are also transition challenges as vendors continue to evolve their systems.
- The document discusses proposed changes to the Sakai framework to introduce the concepts of hierarchy between sites and sections (groups) within sites.
- This would allow sites to be connected in parent-child relationships and for permissions and content to flow down the hierarchy. It would also allow additional groups to be created within sites.
- Tools would need to be designed to optimally make use of these new capabilities, either ignoring hierarchy, rolling up/down content, or being fully aware of hierarchy. The framework changes would enable both hierarchy and sections to be implemented before redesigning tools.
Tsugi and Koseu are open source software tools that allow anyone to easily build and deploy standards-compliant educational websites, content, and learning applications.
Tsugi acts as an "app store" that hosts learning applications and provides API libraries for developers to integrate their tools using open standards. Koseu is an educational website builder and content hosting platform, providing a simple "LMS-like" environment.
These tools aim to lower the barrier to developing and using interoperable educational technologies, helping train developers and allowing institutions and individuals to quickly create customized learning solutions.
Exploring the Next Generation Digital Learning Environment with TsugiCharles Severance
Tsugi is a next generation digital learning environment that allows for an educational app store and interoperability between different learning tools and content repositories. It fills gaps between existing standards like IMS Learning Tools Interoperability and IMS Common Cartridge. For the first time, an app store or learning object repository can be created without proprietary extensions. Tsugi aims to make educational technology startups and tools that teach easier to build, enrich open educational content, and allow for seamless integration and reuse of content across different systems through open standards.
CloudSocial: A New Approach to Enabling Open Content for Broad ReuseCharles Severance
This document summarizes several projects related to open educational resources and learning management systems. It discusses the CloudSocial project, which aims to enable tools from any learning system to be embedded in open web content. It also mentions the University of Michigan Medical School's efforts to develop a next generation LMS beyond traditional course-based systems. Finally, it introduces CloudCollab, an open source LMS written in Python that intends to implement IMS standards and allow hosting tool instances for multiple organizations.
The document discusses the next generation of digital learning environments (NGDLE). It argues that the NGDLE will not be a single application like current learning management systems, but rather an ecosystem of learning applications from an app store. Standards like IMS Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) and the emerging IMS Content Item and CASA App Store specifications will allow learning applications from different vendors to integrate and interoperate within the NGDLE ecosystem. The NGDLE is predicted to have over 100,000 learning applications accessible to teachers and students.
This was my presentation at "Jornada TELSpain: "eLearning 2020: empresas y universidades"
http://symposium.uoc.edu/event_detail/3133/detail/jornada-telspain.html
The document summarizes how universities are using MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) to reimagine teaching and learning. It provides examples of positive results from MOOC programs at the University of Michigan and Coursera. Enrollment numbers and revenue from Coursera courses are increasing significantly each year. MOOCs allow universities to offer educational opportunities to millions of students worldwide at low or no cost.
Charles Severance discusses the future of Sakai and next generation teaching and learning systems. Key points include:
1) Sakai-11 will have an improved, more flexible user interface and improved lessons tool. It will move to a continuous upgrade model and improve multi-tenancy.
2) Standards adoption is increasing and Sakai scores well compared to other learning management systems.
3) Next generation teaching and learning systems will have small modular learning management systems with features from abundant app stores and content repositories. This will allow scaling from hundreds to millions of students.
The document discusses the next generation of teaching and learning tools beyond traditional learning management systems (LMS). It outlines some of the key tenets of next generation tools, including being smaller and scalable, relying on external app stores and content repositories, and having more powerful authoring capabilities. Some early examples in this emerging space are mentioned, focusing on repositories, app stores, and platforms that combine small LMS functionality with external apps and content. Standards alignment is also discussed as important for next generation tools. The document concludes by suggesting how open source projects like Sakai could ensure survival by embracing these next generation approaches.
The document summarizes the history of learning management systems (LMS) in three acts based on a three-act story structure. Act 1 describes the early days of individual LMS vendors. Act 2 covers the period of rapid adoption and growth of many LMS vendors during the "gold rush". Standards organizations like IMS began working on interoperability standards to connect different systems. Act 3 suggests the LMS market is shifting towards a more open, interoperable "post-LMS" ecosystem driven by external tools and empowering teachers through standards.
1. Tsugi is a tool hosting framework that allows LTI tools to be installed and run within its PHP or Java-based container.
2. It emulates Moodle APIs and provides a multi-tenant environment for tools while keeping user data secure.
3. The framework supports LTI 1.x and 2.x specifications and can integrate other IMS standards like Caliper and CASA to host tools from an app store or custom sources.
Charles Severance discussed the history and updates of open standards for learning tools interoperability. He covered the development of LTI versions 1.0, 1.1, 2.0, and upcoming versions 2.1 and 2.2. LTI aims to allow learning tools from different providers to integrate securely with learning management systems. Version 2.0 introduced a RESTful architecture using JSON and registration of tools to share capabilities. Version 2.1 will add re-registration capabilities. Common Cartridge and Caliper analytics standards also relate to advancing open interoperability.
I gave this talk about the state of Sakai at Apereo15. It featured a kitty video.
http://lanyrd.com/2015/apereo/sdmmmq/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbcKGYUsCTU
The Trials and Tribulations of Predicting the Future of Educational TechnologyCharles Severance
This is a talk I gave the 2015 LAK15 conference in Poughkeepsie, NY
http://lak15.solaresearch.org/
There is an associated video that is not inluded and not available anywhere. I did not have permission to use the video so I only showed it during my live presentation.
17. Sites Social Si539 Si502 Home Courses SI124 Si539 SI502 F10 Projects Transition Next Semester SI301 SI581 SI791 Sites Page – User adjustable, User Categories,Drag and drop, site search – a div reveal (i.e. no server interaction