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NERCOMP EVENT
Supporting Sakai: Implementation Stories From 360 degrees
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The Sakai project, the course management system conceived at MIT, Stanford, University of Michigan and Indiana University is growing up and moving beyond its founding organizations. If you’ve wondered about Sakai lately or what it takes to implement Sakai on your campus, this workshop will answer your questions such as: what are the hardware, architectural and programming requirements for running Sakai in your environment? What is involved in the migration of a campus from one CMS to another? How does it work if you aren’t an R1? How do the instructional technologists and librarians like using it? How do the faculty like it? This workshop will focus on the experiences of institutions who are using Sakai in production and is appropriate for senior management, programmers and instructional technologists.
Workshop Organizer/Host: Jane Livingston of Yale University
Date/Time:
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
9:00am - 3:00pm
Registration begins at 8:00am
Location:
UMASS Amherst
Campus Center
First Floor
Amherst, MA
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Special instructions:
Getting to the Campus Center Parking Garage… From Massachusetts Avenue (after exiting from Route 116) At the second set of lights turn left onto Commonwealth Avenue – Boyden Gymnasium is on the corner of Commonwealth & Massachusetts Avenues. At the next set of lights turn right onto Campus Center Way and proceed up Campus Center Way – The entrance to the Campus Center Parking Garage is at the top of the hill on the right.
Parking is available in the Campus Center Garage, pick up your parking pass at the registration desk and pay $5 when leaving.
Park on the 2nd floor of the parking garage and walk thru the hallway into the Student Center and go down to the first floor.
Pricing:
NERCOMP Members: $82
Non-Members: $182
By clicking on the "Register" button below, you are indicating a commitment to attend and will be held responsible for the registration fee.
Your fee can be refunded if you notify us of a cancellation at least 8 days prior to the event via email to nercomp@nercomp.org.
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Additional Information
Event Schedule:
8:00am - 9:00am Registration & Coffee
9:00am – 9:30am Broad Overview of Sakai
Speaker: Charles Severance, Executive Director Sakai Foundation, University of Michigan
9:30am –10:00am From Conception to Production -- Chronicling Yale's Transition to Sakai
Speaker: Chuck Powell, Senior Director, Academic Media & Technology, Yale University
Yale is on a two year trajectory to convert from a home grown CMS/LMS (Classes.yale.edu) to Sakai (locally branded Classes*V2). To date the transition has been very successful and this presentation aims to describe the history of the project and the lessons learned.
10:00am -10:20am Break
10:20am - 11:00am Sakai Implementation at Small and Mid-Size Institutions: Riding the Community-Source Innovation Wave
Speaker: Josh Baron, Director, Academic Technology and eLearning, Marist College
The "community source" model upon which the Sakai Project is based has the potential to drive remarkable innovation in today's online learning environments. This presentation will discuss the strengths of this model, implications for future innovation and share lessons learned from our recent "phased implementation" of Sakai at Marist College, a small complex liberal arts institution. This session will be of particular interest to those at institutions without large departments who are interested in adopting Sakai.
11:00am – 11:45am Managing the Project of an Implementation: What it Takes
Speaker: David Hirsch, Associate Director, Instructional Solutions, Yale University
This presentation will cover some of the local challenges in managing Yale's deployment of Sakai. The open-source development environment of Sakai facilitates local customization, but how to balance the competing urges to create a tailor-made application for a campus's needs, and to deploy an out-of-the-box solution? How to address the needs and expectations of a variety of stakeholders: individual faculty, schools and departments transitioning from three different LMSs, administrative units like the Registrar, and partners like the Library? And how to do all this with a small (but committed) crew of talented developers and support staff, most of whom can donate only part of their day to Sakai?
11:45am – 12:45pm Lunch (Collect topics for Panel Discussion)
12:45pm – 2:00pm
Breakout A: Infrastructure Requirements to Use Sakai (HW, Programming Environment, Data Integration Issues)
Implementing Sakai at Yale
Speakers:
Michael Appleby, Manager, Academic Applications Group, Yale University
Kalee Sprague, Systems Librarian, Yale University
Yale's Sakai implementation began with a pilot in Spring 2005 and currently serves over 1000 undergraduate, graduate and professional school courses. This session will provide an overview of Yale's Sakai implementation as it evolved from the pilot to the present day. We will discuss Sakai development projects undertaken locally, including integration with our student information system, improvements to the application's core functionality, and the creation of new Sakai tools to integrate Library resources.
Breakout B: Presentation and Panel on Support, Library and Faculty Response
Supporting Sakai (a.k.a. Classes*v2) at Yale
Speakers:
Gloria Hardman, Instructional Support Manager, Instructional Solutions
Yale University
Josh Baron, Director, Academic Technology and eLearning
This session will discuss how we provide support for Classes*v2 at Yale. We'll briefly describe how we progressed from a pilot program with five courses in Spring 2005 to full production and over one thousand courses in Fall 2006. We'll talk about the challenges: migration from a 'home grown' system, adoption by professional schools, help documentation, and the evolutionary nature of Sakai itself. We'll share our strategies for problem tracking, understanding the needs of our constituents and providing documentation and support.
Hear from Josh about what is different and the same at a smaller institution.
2:00pm – 3:00pm Panel Discussion From Topics Collected at Lunch
3:00pm End
Speaker:
Charles Severance
Charles Severance is currently the Executive Director of the Sakai Project. Previously he was the Chief Architect for the Sakai Project and Sakai Foundation Board member. He is the Author of the book High Performance Computing, Second Edition, published by O'Reilly and Associates. He is currenly a co-investigator on the National Science Founation National Middleware Initive grid portal project (www.ogce.org).
He has taught Computer Science courses at the University of Michigan and Michigan State University. Charles has developed several tools to assist in the production of multimedia web-based lectures. The tools are called the Sync-O-Matic 3000 and ClipBoard-2000.
Charles is active in television and radio as a hobby, he has co-hosted several television shows including "Nothin but Net" produced by MediaOne and a nationally televised program called Internet:TCI. He appeared for over 10 years as an expert on Internet and Technology on a call-in radio program on the local Public Radio affiliate (www.wkar.org).
Chuck's hobbies include off-road motorcycle riding and playing hockey. He has a B.S., M.S., and Phd. in Computer Science from Michigan State University.
Speaker:
Chuck Powell
Chuck Powell is the Senior Director of Academic Media & Technology, Information Technology Services at Yale University. AM&T has the full panoply of faculty and student services including desktop support, instructional innovation with technology and classroom & media services. Chuck has been at Yale since 1999. Before moving to Yale he spent 21 years in the US Army including two stints teaching at West Point. He received his Bachelor's degree from the United States Military Academy and a Master's degree in Psychology from the University of Washington.
Speaker:
David Hirsch
David Hirsch is Associate Director and Senior Course Developer of the Yale Center for Media and Instructional Innovation, and Project Manager of the Classes*v2 project (Sakai). For the past five years he has worked closely with Yale faculty on the development of instructional media and web-based educational materials. He previously worked at Northeastern University's Educational Technology Center and served as a course developer and manager of faculty training for Harcourt Higher Education in Boston. Prior to that, he taught English literature at the University of Illinois and Harvard.
Speaker:
Gloria Hardman
Gloria Hardman has worked in the Academic Media and Technology area at Yale University for the past 12 years. Her primary responsibility is support for the Sakai project known as Classes*v2, which went into full production in Fall 2005. She was deeply involved with Yale's 'home grown' system, Classes, from its early beginnings in Fall 1998 and developed an appreciation of faculty expectations.
In an earlier life, Gloria worked for IBM, programmed in PL/1 and Assembler and taught math and computer courses at Choate Rosemary Hall School in CT.
She holds a BA with majors in Mathematics and English from the University of Natal, South Africa and a MALS from Wesleyan University in CT.
Speaker:
Josh Baron
Josh Baron is Director of Academic Technology and eLearning at Marist College. Josh is responsible for preparing and supporting faculty who are teaching online courses as well as maintaining the College’s course management system. Before coming to Marist College, he was the associate director of instructional technology for the Center for Improved Engineering and Science Education at Stevens Institute of Technology. In this capacity, he helped lead a $10 million U.S. Department of Education technology initiative working both at the K-12 and college level. He was also a Web faculty member for the Stevens WebCampus initiative and developed one of the first Stevens online graduate courses. Josh holds a bachelor of science in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Michigan and a master of arts in Educational Technology Management from George Washington University.
Speaker:
Kalee Sprague
Kalee Sprague is a Systems Librarian in the Integrated Library Technology Services department at the Yale Library. She received her M.L.I.S. from the University of California at Berkeley in 1993, and has worked at Yale as a Systems Librarian since 1997. She currently chairs the Portal Opportunities Group, a group charged with identifying and implementing projects to integrate library resources in non-library environments like Sakai.
Speaker:
Michael Appleby
Michael Appleby is a manager in the Academic Media & Technology group at Yale University. He has been a member of Yale's Sakai implementation team since 2005. In addition to his work with Sakai, Michael has developed applications for a number of academic projects at Yale, including the Social Science Data Archive, Divinity Digital Library, and YaleGlobal Online magazine.
Related Media Files:
Sakai at Yale.ppt
Yale_Nercomp_April_07.ppt
Conception_to_production_v7_nercomp.ppt
2007_04_11_nercomp_v12.ppt
Contact Information:
Lisa DiMauro
860-345-2081
ldimauro@wesleyan.edu
Hotel Information:
Rooms are available at the Campus Center Hotel located right on campus.
Rooms are reserved under Block Number 1798, the rate is $86 per night. The room block will be released on March 27.
Call the hotel directly at: 1-413-549-6000
For additional information go to:
http://www.aux.umass.edu/hotel/
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