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.

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

19. pedagogy@collab.sakaiproject.org
http://collab.sakaiproject.org/mailman/l
istinfo/pedagogy
https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/x/P
wBPAQ
Confluence Wiki and Mailing List

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