This is the last in a series of posts about Sakai activities at Educause….I’m on my way there now, stuck for a few hours in Dulles. With a bandage on my left little finger (cut from a kitchen knife…stupid) that makes me hit the CAPS LOCK key instead of ‘a’ and the CTRL key instead [...]
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If you’ve followed Sakai for any length of time you’ll know that IBM’s Education division has been a great supporter of the community. They’ve sponsored numerous Sakai conference activities (including the first Sakai Teaching and Learning Innovation award), they’ve worked with Marist College on a version Sakai for WebSphere and they have a partnership with [...]
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As you may have guessed if you read this blog regularly, I’m doing a series of posts about Sakai Commercial Affiliate activity at Educause. Today I’m featuring rSmart.
As usual, rSmart has a booth on the trade show floor (#942) and I was pleased to see that they have developed a special Sakai Adoption Package. As [...]
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Sakai commercial affiliate Unicon will be hosting a series of presentations at its booth on the Educause show floor. These will be 20 minute briefings followed by 10 minutes of Q&A. There are several briefings that feature Sakai, including my own on Thursday. But you’ve seen enough of me and I’d encourage you to check [...]
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Marist College faculty member and blogger Kevin Gaugler just added a nice post about Sakai to his blog (called The World A.T. Ways). Kevin is an Associate Professor of Spanish and Chair of the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures at Marist and attended the Sakai Conference in Newport Beach last December.
Thanks for the kind [...]
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Earlier this year the JA-Sig conference in St. Paul Minnesota brought together members from a variety of different Higher Education Open Source communities, including Sakai, D Space, Fedora Commons and Kuali. The Executive Directors of these project have stayed in touch and have been talking about different ways to work together.
Well, I’m happy to say [...]
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On behalf of CampusEAI Consortium and Sakai, I would like to invite you to attend the “Future of IT in Higher Education Symposium” at EDUCAUSE 2008 on Wednesday, October 29, 2008 in Orlando, Florida where I will be presenting the value of open source solutions for higher education initiatives, specifically in the area of course [...]
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I’m sure, like me, many of you are getting ready for Educause 2008 in Orlando. There are an unprecedented number of Sakai-related events and presentations this year and a number of Sakai Commercial Affiliates will be attending as well. I’ll be featuring these events in individual blog posts over the next few weeks, but you [...]
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Don’t forget to register for the Sakai regional conference at Virginia Tech. The early registration deadline is Monday October 13th. More conference details, including a tentative schedule, can be found on the wiki page.
Remember that the cut-off date for hotel reservations at the guaranteed Sakai rate of $129/night is also Monday, October 13, 2008. To [...]
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I’m pleased to announce an important extension and expansion of the Sakai Foundation User Experience Improvement project. As you know, the Sakai Foundation initially contracted with Nathan Pearson to begin working on new user interaction designs for Sakai. This work has made excellent progress and a variety of schools are assisting with implementation, including UC [...]
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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.
