We’ve had requests from several folks in the community about extending the proposal deadline for the 9th Sakai Conference in Paris. I’m pleased to announce that we are extending the deadline to Friday, April 11th at midnight, GMT. In retrospect, having the proposal deadline during a week when many North American schools are on [...]
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The Teaching & Learning group in the Sakai community has been very active recently. They had some terrific sessions at the Newport Beach Conference and their discussion on the collaboration lists have been quite lively. Their latest accomplishment, which we initially previewed at Newport Beach, is the “Sakai Teaching and Learning Innovation [...]
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I’m very pleased to announce that Sakai 2.5.0 is now officially available on the Sakai website! Source, binary and demo distributions are available for download. For more information on what’s included in the release, see Peter Knoop’s release summary. We expect than most institution running a previous version of Sakai will be upgrading to [...]
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I’m pleased to announce that Serensoft, a Sakai Commercial Affiliate, has recently teamed up with Agilearn and OLI to offer a new way to test out Sakai. They are calling their test instance Sakaisthelimit. This is a pretty cute name, in the grand tradition of Sakaiger. My favorite Sakai pun, though, is from a [...]
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After a year of benign neglect due to the transition between Executive Directors, the Sakai Fellows program was a bit stalled. I’m pleased to announce it’s revival, however, in time for a new set of 6 nominees to get special recognition at the Sakai Conference in Paris. I’ve update the existing wiki page for the [...]
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Chris Mackie of the Mellon Foundation reminded me of the following award nominations coming up. Get your nominations in soon….
Deadline Approaching: 2008 Mellon Awards for Technology Collaboration
The deadline for nominations for the 2008 Mellon Awards for Technology Collaboration (MATC Awards) is April 14, 2008. The MATC Awards consist of up to ten $50,000 or $100,000 [...]
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As you probably know, we will be returning to Europe for the 9th Sakai Conference. After a very successful and well-attended conference in Amsterdam, we are excited to be headed to Paris this July. The conference hotel will be the Rive Gauche Marriott which is in an excellent location on the left bank. While the [...]
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I’m very pleased to announce that the University of Dayton (in my home state of Ohio) has recently made public their decision to adopt Sakai! They are replacing WebCT, which has been used as the primary system since 2003. A panel of faculty and staff evaluated a number of choices and the panel unanimously recommended [...]
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On Thursday, March 6th, I visited the Universidad Politècnica de València. The day before I had been part of the CRUE conference which was hosted by UPV, but this day was dedicated to the activities of the University itself. My two most direct hosts were Raúl Mengod López and Aris Cañero Villegas, who [...]
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Sakai Courseware Management: The Official Guide is now available from Packt publishing. The publisher is paying a percentage of every book sold directly to the Sakai Foundation. And Alan and I are donating all royalties directly to the Sakai Foundation.
