Category Archives: sakai

University of Amsterdam and Edia launch MOOC platform based on Sakai

MOOC - ‘Massively Open Online Course’: a type of online course aimed at large-scale participation and open access via the web. MOOCs are a recent development in the area of distance education, and a progression of the kind of open education ideals … Continue reading

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External Calendaring Service for Sakai

Over the past few months I’ve been working on and off on a project to make working with iCal files within Sakai really easy - I call it the External Calendaring Service. I am pleased to announce that this is now … Continue reading

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Reduce your Sakai CLE startup time

There is a current discussion on the sakai-dev list about the recent switch to Tomcat 7 and some new features in Tomcat that meant startup times took a bit longer than they used to. http://collab.sakaiproject.org/pipermail/sakai-dev/2012-November/thread.html#19508 As it turns out there … Continue reading

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Jasig-Sakai consolidation vote passes

The recent Jasig-Sakai consolidation vote by the respective Foundation and community members has passed, meaning that we can now push forward with the last remaining steps towards forming the Apereo Foundation. The results of the vote are: Sakai 58 Members … Continue reading

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Why I support the Jasig-Sakai consolidation

In a few days, both the Sakai and Jasig communities will be voting to consolidate into one organisation, the Apereo Foundation. This is the culmination of over a years worth of effort from many people from both communities and it … Continue reading

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Planning for Sakai 2.10 and beyond

I believe it is time for the Sakai community to embark on a proper planning and management process for the Sakai CLE, to take us well into the future. Not one that is based on existing Jira’s that are left … Continue reading

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Jasig-Sakai Joint Unconference – Save the date!

Who. What. Where. What The Sixth Annual Jasig (First Joint Sakai) Unconference on the campus of Arizona State University/Polytechnic, Mesa, AZ Dates January 14-16, 2013 2 1/2 days of sessions; January 16-17, 2013 1 1/2 days of developer-implementer gathering Place … Continue reading

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The Golden Age of Sakai

Chuck Severance has written an insightful post about the current state of the Sakai CLE (Collaboration and Learning Environment), the relationship with Blackboard, the Sakai Foundation, the Sakai+Jasig=Apereo merger, and the coming golden age of Sakai. It’s a pretty exciting … Continue reading

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AuSakai 2012 – Call for Proposals

AuSakai 2012 – Call for Proposals 18-19 September 2012 Hosted by Charles Sturt University Bathurst, Australia The AuSakai 2012 Organising Committee invites proposals for presentations and workshops for the upcoming AuSakai 2012 conference. AuSakai 2012 will explore ‘Sakai Futures: Openness … Continue reading

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Sakai Spring MVC Maven Archetype 1.2 release

Mike Jennings from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has created a Spring MVC Maven Archetype for Sakai. This generates a fully functioning application for Sakai, complete with service layers, from a single Maven command. This is just … Continue reading

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