Sakai Cost Savings Webinar Feb 12 2009

rSmart Presents: Introduction to Sakai How Sakai can save your institution money while providing robust LMS capabilities

Thursday, February 12, 2009

Agenda

‣  IT landscape on campus

‣  Introduction to Sakai

‣  Sakai the “community”

‣  Sakai the “software”

‣  rSmart’s services can save money

‣  Sakai demonstration

‣  How to get started with Sakai

‣  Q & A

Mike Zackrison

VP of Marketing, rSmart

Spencer Harris Higher Education Consultant, rSmart

Budget Cuts, 2008 percentage of institutions reporting budget reductions for academic computing over prior year funding, 2000 - 2008

2000 2008

Source: The Campus Computing Project

Budgets Trends by IT Function, 2008 percentage of institutions reporting budget increases or budget cuts, by IT budget function

Increase Cut

Academic Computing

Adm. Computing

ERP Software

& Services

Wireless Networking

IT Security

Network Servers

Emergency Notification

Central IT Services


Rising Use of IT in Instruction Learning Management Tools (CMS/LMS)

percentage of courses using CMS/LMS by sector, 2000-2008

2000 2008


Open Source LMS Deployment, 2007-2008 percentages by sector, 2007 vs. 2008

2007 2008


Migrating to Open Source ERP Apps by 2013?

Public Research Universities

Private Research Universities

Public 4-Year Colleges

Private 4-Year Colleges

Community Colleges

percentage reporting very likely to migrate by sector, 2008 (scale score: 1=not likely; 7=highly likely; data for scores of 6 or 7)


Academic Institutions

Commercial Enterprises

Non-profits Standards Bodies

•   Collaborative educational software initiative between Michigan, Indiana, MIT and

Stanford, funded by Mellon Foundation

•   Membership ~ 120 academic institutions and 15 commercial affiliates around the world

•   Project activities coordinated by the Sakai Foundation, a non-profit 501 (C3), charged with ensuring viability of community and software

•   9 product releases since 2004

Sakai: The Community

Institutions Users

Indiana, UNISA 130,000+

Michigan 60,000+

UC Berkeley, Cape Town, Etudes Consortium, New England (AU), Valencia, Virginia Tech, Yale, Cerritos College, University of Hawaii, RINET

11,000 - 50,000

Cambridge University, La Salle, Charles Sturt, Fernando Pessoa, Lleida, Mount Holyoke, Northwestern, Rice, Roskilde, Saginaw Valley, UC Merced, Whitman, Arteveldehogeschool, eTech Ohio, Columbia Earth Institute, OHSU, Limerick, Marist College, University of Baltimore

1,000 - 10,000

Corporations: Performance Learning Systems, Holmes Corporation

200+ Production and Pilot Instances on 7 continents Sample Implementations Worldwide with Approximate Size

Sakai: The Community

rSmart’s Role in Open Source Communities

Supporting Open Source Innovations in Education

We are the leading open source application software company serving the education market. It’s our passion and only focus.

We package, certify, service, and support a suite of enterprise financial, collaboration and learning applications that power the Education Enterprise.

We have been instrumental in establishing and sustaining some of the most visible open source projects in education.

About rSmart

Open Source Projects

About rSmart’s Business and Offerings

Perceived lack of support is a primary barrier to open source (OS) adoption

OS Adoption Services

•   Installation

•   Configuration

•   Customization

•   Integration

•   Training

•   Consulting

•   Hosting

The “Red Hat” for OS Education Applications

rSmart / Sakai Value Proposition

‣  Outstanding product

‣  Community innovation

‣  Open source freedom

‣  Commercial support

‣  Superior value

Examples of Saving License Fees

http://www.rsmart.com/sakai-cle-pricing

Examples of Resource Savings

SELF SUPPORTED rSmart SUPPORTED SAKAI

rSmart Enables:

•   You to use Sakai with fewer technical resources

•   You to focus more of your resources on constituent service instead of servicing technology

•   You to use Sakai with the same staff you use to support Bb and other vended solutions.

‣  Next generation collaboration and learning environment ‣  Teaching, Learning, Scholarly Collaboration, Research, (LMS, CMS, CLE, VLE, VRE)

‣  Built by the world’s leading educational institutions ‣  By and for Education - Enlightened self-interest

‣  Unmatched innovation in OS software development ‣  4 years, 9 releases,over 60 tools (wiki, blog, podcasting, portfolio, polls, web services, gallery, statistics, grad tools, evaluations, online live meeting, forums, assessment, reporting)

‣  Enterprise ready (performs w/ 130,000 users, integration, code)

‣  Freely available under an OS license

Sakai: The Software

Sakai: The Software

Teaching & Learning ePortfolios

Groups and Projects

rSmart Sakai CLE Demo

Getting Started with Sakai

rSmart Sakai CLE Adoption Package

‣  Includes:

‣  Services and Training

‣  Configuration requirements session (onsite)

‣  Functional and admin training (onsite)

‣  Branding and skinning

‣  LDAP integration

‣  SIS integration

‣  Installation

Software Support

‣  Hosting*

‣  Six months standard support

‣  Up to 500 users

‣  Ability to expand as needed

*Can be deployed onsite if preferred

Cost: $25K Timeline: 4 to 6 weeks

Questions and Contact

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Mike Zackrison

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Spencer Harris

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General

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Contact us:

www.rsmart.com

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