It’s a big week for announcement in Sakai. Yesterday the newest batch of Sakai fellows were announced. The Sakai Fellows program seeks to foster community leadership and participation in all aspects of community activity through the recognition and support of exceptional contributors. This year’s Fellows were selected from an outstanding group of nominees, the largest [...]
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I will be holding a series of webinars to provide a high-level overview of Sakai 3 and a description of you can participate in this important development for the Sakai community. I’ll be describing the concepts behind Sakai 3 and showing a brief demonstration. Most importantly, I’ll be talking about the development projects that are [...]
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About a year ago Alan Berg tapped me on the shoulder (figuratively? I don’t remember exactly) at the Sakai Conference in Paris and said he wanted to write a book on Sakai. We had lunch at the Jardin des Pâtes (recommended by Jean-François Lévêque) and discussed the idea. I’m very pleased to inform you, 10 [...]
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June 5 (next Friday!) is the early registration and hotel discount deadline for the 10th Sakai Conference in Boston. June 5 is the last day to get the group rate at the hotel and the $50 registration discount. If you’re planning to come it’s definitely time to register for the conference and book your hotel [...]
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There’s been a discussion on the Educause CIO listserv recently, prompted by Blackboard’s acquisition of Angel, about alternatives to commercial course management systems. Overall the discussion was quite good but I was surprised to see that some folks still operate under the assumption that “open source” means “do it yourself.” That’s one of the reasons [...]
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Blackboard has announced that it is acquiring Angel Learning. Whether this is a “good thing” or a “bad thing” of course depends on who you are and on what happens with the two companies. It is certainly another aggressive move by Blackboard to protect/increase it’s market share. When viewed in light of the acquisition of [...]
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As you may know, a few folks from the Sakai community, led by Ian Boston at Cambridge, are working on a new kernel that we believe will be the basis for Sakai 3. It’s called “K2,” perhaps because it is relplacing K1 but also, perhaps, in reference to an impressive mountain.
Ian just added a nice [...]
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While Virginia Tech has been using Sakai for quite awhile and even hosted a (fantastic!) regional Sakai event last year, they recently made an official announcement that Scholar (their local name for Sakai) will fully replace Blackboard on Campus by Fall 2010.
You can download the announcement here: Scholar to replace Blackboard.
There are some great quotes [...]
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The European Sakai Conference in Stockholm has just kicked off. There’s a great program and a terrific turnout including participants from North America and Australia. You can see the sessions on the conference wiki or follow it on twitter using #eurosakai09.
That’s all for now….
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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.
