Using Sakai in Research Using Sakai in Research at Rutgers Universityat Rutgers University

Gayle K. Stein, Ph.D.Gayle K. Stein, Ph.D.Associate Director for Instructional TechnologyAssociate Director for Instructional Technology

Tom GrzelakTom GrzelakAssociate Director for Research TechnologyAssociate Director for Research Technology

Office of Instructional and Research Technology Office of Instructional and Research Technology (OIRT)(OIRT)

What is Sakai?What is Sakai?

A A community and foundationcommunity and foundation—a group —a group of people and resources supporting the of people and resources supporting the code and each other, realizing large scale code and each other, realizing large scale Open Source efficienciesOpen Source efficiencies

A collaboration and learning A collaboration and learning productproduct with: with:

A set of A set of toolstools which have been tested and which have been tested and released as a unitreleased as a unit

An extensible An extensible frameworkframework for building for building collaboration to support a wide range of collaboration to support a wide range of teaching and researchteaching and research

Sakai 2.1.1 ToolsSakai 2.1.1 Tools

Message of the DayNews/RSS Roster integrationResourcesSamigo - QTI AssessmentScheduleSection ManagementSyllabusWeb ContentWiki

AnnouncementsAssignmentsChat RoomThreaded DiscussionDrop BoxEmail ArchiveGradebookMelete - Content Editor

HistoryHistory

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

More Sakai project historyMore Sakai project history

Each of the 4 core universities committedEach of the 4 core universities committed5+ developers/architects under Sakai Board 5+ developers/architects under Sakai Board project direction for 2 yearsproject direction for 2 years

Public commitment to implement SakaiPublic commitment to implement SakaiOpen/Open licensing—“Community Source”Open/Open licensing—“Community Source”

Overall project levelsOverall project levels$4.4M in institutional staff (27 FTE)$4.4M in institutional staff (27 FTE)$2.4M Mellon, $300K Hewlett$2.4M Mellon, $300K HewlettAdditional investment through partnersAdditional investment through partners

The “Sakai Project” became the Sakai The “Sakai Project” became the Sakai Foundation in January, 2006Foundation in January, 2006

The Sakai FoundationThe Sakai Foundation

The Foundation manages a small staff to:The Foundation manages a small staff to:- coordinate evolution of the Sakai software- coordinate evolution of the Sakai software

- provide advanced developer support for members- provide advanced developer support for members

- conduct quality assurance work on Sakai releases- conduct quality assurance work on Sakai releases

- track contributor agreements and manage the Sakai IP- track contributor agreements and manage the Sakai IP

- manage conferences and meetings for the Sakai - manage conferences and meetings for the Sakai

CommunityCommunity

Sakai Foundation Sakai Foundation membersmembersAlbany Medical CollegeAlbany Medical College Monash UniversityMonash University University of California, Los AngelesUniversity of California, Los Angeles

Arizona State UniversityArizona State University Nagoya UniversityNagoya University University of California, MercedUniversity of California, Merced

Australian National UniversityAustralian National University New York UniversityNew York University University of California, Santa BarbaraUniversity of California, Santa Barbara

Boston University School of ManagementBoston University School of Management Northeastern UniversityNortheastern University University of Cambridge, CARETUniversity of Cambridge, CARET

Brown UniversityBrown University North-West University (SA)North-West University (SA) University of Cape Town, SAUniversity of Cape Town, SA

Carleton CollegeCarleton College Northwestern UniversityNorthwestern University University of Colorado at BoulderUniversity of Colorado at Boulder

Carnegie Foundation for Advancement of TeachingCarnegie Foundation for Advancement of Teaching Ohio State UniversityOhio State University University of DelawareUniversity of Delaware

Carnegie Mellon UniversityCarnegie Mellon University Portland State UniversityPortland State University University of HawaiiUniversity of Hawaii

Ceritos Community CollegeCeritos Community College Princeton UniversityPrinceton University University of HullUniversity of Hull

Coast Community College DistrictCoast Community College District Rice UniversityRice University University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Columbia UniversityColumbia University Ringling School of Art and DesignRingling School of Art and Design University of MelbourneUniversity of Melbourne

Cornell UniversityCornell University Roskilde University (Denmark)Roskilde University (Denmark) University of MichiganUniversity of Michigan

Dartmouth CollegeDartmouth College Rutgers UniversityRutgers University University of MinnesotaUniversity of Minnesota

Florida Community College at JacksonvilleFlorida Community College at Jacksonville Simon Fraser UniversitySimon Fraser University University of MissouriUniversity of Missouri

Foothill-De Anza Community CollegeFoothill-De Anza Community College Stanford UniversityStanford University University of NebraskaUniversity of Nebraska

Franklin UniversityFranklin University State University of New YorkState University of New York University of North TexasUniversity of North Texas

Georgetown UniversityGeorgetown University Stockholm UniversityStockholm University University of OklahomaUniversity of Oklahoma

Harvard UniversityHarvard University SURF/University of AmsterdamSURF/University of Amsterdam University of South Africa (UNISA)University of South Africa (UNISA)

Hosei University IT Research CenterHosei University IT Research Center Syracuse UniversitySyracuse University University of Texas at AustinUniversity of Texas at Austin

Indiana UniversityIndiana University Texas State University - San MarcosTexas State University - San Marcos University of Toronto, Knowledge Media Design InstituteUniversity of Toronto, Knowledge Media Design Institute

Johns Hopkins UniversityJohns Hopkins University Tufts UniversityTufts University University of VirginiaUniversity of Virginia

Lancaster UniversityLancaster University Universidad Politecnica de Valencia (Spain)Universidad Politecnica de Valencia (Spain) University of WashingtonUniversity of Washington

Loyola University, ChicagoLoyola University, Chicago Universitat de Lleida (Spain)Universitat de Lleida (Spain) University of Wisconsin, MadisonUniversity of Wisconsin, Madison

Lubeck University of Applied SciencesLubeck University of Applied Sciences University College DublinUniversity College Dublin Virginia Polytechnic Institute/UniversityVirginia Polytechnic Institute/University

Maricopa County Community CollegeMaricopa County Community College University of ArizonaUniversity of Arizona Whitman CollegeWhitman College

Marist CollegeMarist College University of California, Office of the ChancellorUniversity of California, Office of the Chancellor Yale UniversityYale University

MITMIT University of California BerkeleyUniversity of California Berkeley University of California BerkeleyUniversity of California Berkeley

University of California, DavisUniversity of California, Davis

105 and Growing

How Sakai got to How Sakai got to RutgersRutgers

Version of WebCT used in NB/P and Camden at Version of WebCT used in NB/P and Camden at end of useful lifeend of useful life

Wanted to see what other options wereWanted to see what other options were Learned about Sakai in Learned about Sakai in Campus TechnologyCampus Technology

magazine – January, 2004magazine – January, 2004 Liked community source conceptLiked community source concept Shortly after it was made publicly available in Shortly after it was made publicly available in

July, 2004, our CTO began to test itJuly, 2004, our CTO began to test it We hired staff in December, 2004We hired staff in December, 2004 Put up demo copy of 1.0 during the summerPut up demo copy of 1.0 during the summer Launched Pilot with 2.0 in Fall, 2005Launched Pilot with 2.0 in Fall, 2005

The Pilot – Fall The Pilot – Fall 20052005

50 faculty members50 faculty members 5,000 students, in classes 5,000 students, in classes

ranging from 15 students ranging from 15 students to 1,200 students and to 1,200 students and across all disciplinesacross all disciplines

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Sakai at Sakai at RutgersRutgers

StaffStaff Applications DeveloperApplications Developer Systems Programmer/Administrator Systems Programmer/Administrator

(1.25)(1.25) Instructional DesignerInstructional Designer

Other staff who are working with usOther staff who are working with us Campus-based instructional designer (2)Campus-based instructional designer (2) Web developer/campus-based Web developer/campus-based

instructional designer (0.25)instructional designer (0.25)

Sakai in Sakai in ResearchResearch

Motivation Motivation Open source, open licenseOpen source, open license Intuitive, easy to useIntuitive, easy to use Cyberinfrastructure Cyberinfrastructure

- Collaborative environment for - Collaborative environment for internal/external internal/external- Front-end for tools/applications- Front-end for tools/applications- Same environment as courses- Same environment as courses

Research Demo Research Demo SiteSite

Created site to demonstrate toolsCreated site to demonstrate tools JoinableJoinable

Additional general Additional general collaborationcollaborationtools under developmenttools under development

BlogBlog

Shared DisplayShared Display

Shared WhiteboardShared Whiteboard

Multipoint AudioMultipoint Audio

Multipoint VideoMultipoint Video

Open Source PortfolioOpen Source Portfolio

SakaiBrary (TwinPeaks)SakaiBrary (TwinPeaks)

These are works-in-progress by members of the Sakai eResearch community. There are no dates for release.

Web ServicesWeb Services

Standard web technology that can facilitate Standard web technology that can facilitate communication of data into and out of Sakaicommunication of data into and out of Sakai

OIRT exploring to create “bridge” between OIRT exploring to create “bridge” between existing tools and Sakai using web servicesexisting tools and Sakai using web services

We are currently collecting information about We are currently collecting information about tools that faculty have developed in their labs tools that faculty have developed in their labs that they might want to integrate with Sakai that they might want to integrate with Sakai using web servicesusing web services

For more informationFor more information

sakai.rutgers.edusakai.rutgers.edu sakaiproject.orgsakaiproject.org Email: Email: sakai@rutgers.edusakai@rutgers.edu

Gayle K. Stein, Ph.D. (Gayle K. Stein, Ph.D. (gstein@rutgers.edugstein@rutgers.edu)) Tom Grzelak (Tom Grzelak (grzelak@rutgers.edugrzelak@rutgers.edu))

oirt.rutgers.eduoirt.rutgers.edu