Using Sakai in Research at Rutgers University

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1 Using Sakai in Research at Rutgers University Gayle K. Stein, Ph.D. Associate Director for Instructional Technology Tom Grzelak Associate Director for Research Technology Office of Instructional and Research Technology (OIRT)

2 What is Sakai? A community and foundation a a group of people and resources supporting the code and each other, realizing large scale Open Source efficiencies A collaboration and learning product with: A set of tools which have been tested and released as a unit An extensible framework for building collaboration to support a wide range of teaching and research

3 Sakai Tools Announcements Assignments Chat Room Threaded Discussion Drop Box Archive Gradebook Melete - Content Editor Message of the Day News/RSS Roster integration Resources Samigo - QTI Assessment Schedule Section Management Syllabus Web Content Wiki

4 History The University of Michigan, Indiana University, MIT, Stanford,, the uportal Consortium, and the Open Knowledge Initiative (OKI) have joined forces to integrate and synchronize their considerable educational software into a pre- integrated collection of open source tools. To begin, the Sakai Project received a $2.4 million grant from the Mellon Foundation

5 More Sakai project history Each of the 4 core universities committed 5+ developers/architects under Sakai Board project direction for 2 years Public commitment to implement Sakai Open/Open licensing Community Source Overall project levels $4.4M in institutional staff (27 FTE) $2.4M Mellon, $300K Hewlett Additional investment through partners The Sakai Project became the Sakai Foundation in January, 2006

6 The Sakai Foundation The Foundation manages a small staff to: - coordinate evolution of the Sakai software - provide advanced developer support for members - conduct quality assurance work on Sakai releases - track contributor agreements and manage the Sakai IP - manage conferences and meetings for the Sakai Community

7 Sakai Foundation members Albany Medical College Arizona State University Australian National University Boston University School of Management Brown University Carleton College Carnegie Foundation for Advancement of Teaching Monash University Nagoya University New York University Northeastern University North-West University (SA) Northwestern University Ohio State University University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Merced University of California, Santa Barbara University of Cambridge, CARET University of Cape Town, SA University of Colorado at Boulder University of Delaware 105 and Growing Carnegie Mellon University Portland State University Ceritos Community College Princeton University Coast Community College District Rice University University of Hawaii University of Hull University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Columbia University Cornell University Dartmouth College Florida Community College at Jacksonville Foothill-De Anza Community College Franklin University Georgetown University Harvard University Hosei University IT Research Center Indiana University Johns Hopkins University Lancaster University Loyola University, Chicago Lubeck University of Applied Sciences Maricopa County Community College Marist College MIT Ringling School of Art and Design Roskilde University (Denmark) Rutgers University Simon Fraser University Stanford University State University of New York Stockholm University SURF/University of Amsterdam Syracuse University Texas State University - San Marcos Tufts University Universidad Politecnica de Valencia (Spain) Universitat de Lleida (Spain) University College Dublin University of Arizona University of California, Office of the Chancellor University of California Berkeley University of Melbourne University of Michigan University of Minnesota University of Missouri University of Nebraska University of North Texas University of Oklahoma University of South Africa (UNISA) University of Texas at Austin University of Toronto, Knowledge Media Design Institute University of Virginia University of Washington University of Wisconsin, Madison Virginia Polytechnic Institute/University Whitman College Yale University University of California Berkeley University of California, Davis

8 How Sakai got to Rutgers Version of WebCT used in NB/P and Camden at end of useful life Wanted to see what other options were Learned about Sakai in Campus Technology magazine January, 2004 Liked community source concept Shortly after it was made publicly available in July, 2004, our CTO began to test it We hired staff in December, 2004 Put up demo copy of 1.0 during the summer Launched Pilot with 2.0 in Fall, 2005

9 The Pilot Fall faculty members 5,000 students, in classes ranging from 15 students to 1,200 students and across all disciplines Results: Easy to use Still young but promising Anyone affiliated with Rutgers can set up site

10 The Pilot Spring semester begins Pilot begins 6057 Users Pilot ends Aug 2005 Sep 2005 Oc t 2005 Nov 2005 Dec 2005 Jan 2006 Feb 2006 Mar 2006

11 Fall 2006 Architecture

12 Sakai at Rutgers Staff Applications Developer Systems Programmer/Administrator (1.25) Instructional Designer Other staff who are working with us Campus-based instructional designer (2) Web developer/campus-based instructional designer (0.25)

13 Sakai in Research Motivation Open source, open license Intuitive, easy to use Cyberinfrastructure - Collaborative environment for internal/external - Front-end for tools/applications - Same environment as courses

14 Research Demo Site Created site to demonstrate tools Joinable

24 Additional general collaboration tools under development Blog Shared Display Shared Whiteboard Multipoint Audio Multipoint Video Open Source Portfolio SakaiBrary (TwinPeaks) These are works-in-progress by members of the Sakai eresearch community. There are no dates for release.

25 Web Services Standard web technology that can facilitate communication of data into and out of Sakai OIRT exploring to create bridge between existing tools and Sakai using web services We are currently collecting information about tools that faculty have developed in their labs that they might want to integrate with Sakai using web services

26 For more information sakai.rutgers.edu sakaiproject.org Gayle K. Stein, Ph.D. Tom Grzelak oirt.rutgers.edu

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