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Mneme is a comprehensive assessment engine for Sakai that consists of an authoring module for creating questions and managing pools; a module for publishing assignments, tasks, tests and surveys; a grading module for evaluating assessments, optionally integrated with the Gradebook; and a delivery module for administering assessments to students. Additionally, a test-drive component allows instructors to take assessments as students.

"My Sakai" makes it possible to get your files and announcements, and keep track of what's going on in your Sakai sites, straight from your desktop. For example, a student engrossed in writing an essay, who suddenly realises they need to check something in a document in their course site, can open it straight from their desktop widget, without having to break off and navigate through Sakai to find it.

"My Sakai" widgets show you recent activity on all of the worksites you're a member of. This means that the widget will tell you when a new announcement or a new resource has been added. The widgets also provide synoptic views of Resources and Announcements.

We have created widgets for Mac DashBoard, Vista Sidebar, Facebook, iGoogle, Google Desktop, and RSS.

The future of content hosting in sakai.  Argues for more robust implementation to be the face of the DLA, DSpace, and the image store

From the website:

There is currently a beta quality JCR implementation of Content Hosting in trunk. This work was originaly done and documented in SAK-10366. This is some good historical information available too, but that is now deprecated. This page will deal specifically with JCR information related to the ContentHostingService and parts of the Resources tool. For general information about JSR-170 support in Sakai see here

The very first phase of JCR integration for Resources is an implementation of the existing ContentHostingService API using a JCR backend. With this initial support, the Resources Tool and Sakai DAV are meant to operate as they stand with no changes to their code.

 

nursing site

community join sakai dev

good breakdown of what's in it

stylesheets, skins

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A pilot experiment to develop a user interface for accessing digital library resources from within the Sakai

A pilot experiment to develop a user interface for accessing digital library resources from within the Sakai

An open source content management system used to run the Sakai home.

Notes from an attendee.

Zimbra focuses on solving the cost and complexity for enterprises that run large email/collaboration systems. We accomplish this by combining industry-proven open source components with our experience in designing and operating large-scale messaging and mission-critical software systems, at companies such as Openwave Systems (the leading provider of messaging infrastructure to service providers), Sun Microsystems, Portola Communications, BEA Systems, WebLogic, SEVEN Networks and AOL.

Our solutions are supported cross-platform, including Linux, Unix, Mac OS X on the server-side; Windows, Linux and Mac desktops; and Firefox, Safari and Internet Explorer browsers. Key customers we work with include Fortune 1000 enterprises, particularly in the financial services, retail and manufacturing sectors, and higher education institutions.

Follow developments of open source administrative systems like SRS or ILS for libraries.

Indiana University Libraries Information Technology is working on a pilot experiment to develop a user interface for accessing digital library resources from within the Sakai course management environment. Titled “Twin Peaks” to illustrate the currently separate mountains of library and course management resources being bridged, it is a fully JSR168 compliant tool being developed as an experimental option within the new WYSIWYG authoring tool of Sakai. Currently available resources are limited so the effort as is centered on foundational aspects of user interface and integration into Sakai. The goal is to provide a system to make it easier for instructors with limited time and very limited technical expertise to simply locate and reuse digital content, in the widest sense of such content (licensed, local, any media, etc). This tool encompasses several practical functions for teaching and learning like reading lists, creation of guided searches, and course or subject specific web pages. The functionality is targeted for eventual acceptance as a default tool within the core Sakai code.

HarvestRoad Hive® System Extension for Blackboard Learning System provides comprehensive content management, distributed repositories (bureaus), workflow engine, notification management, metadata management and copyright control to Blackboard.

Content can be published via Blackboard course pages directly to the repository, including hyperlinked content in SmartText areas. Single source content in HarvestRoad Hive® can be used in any number of Blackboard courses without duplication. Sophisticated version control and linking capabilities are also available to the Blackboard user.

Blackboard System Extension is available as a separate module that is installed on the Blackboard system as a System Extension (Building Block).

a nice research guide for undergrads

Indiana University Libraries Information Technology is working on a pilot experiment to develop a user interface for accessing digital library resources from within the Sakai course management environment. Titled “Twin Peaks” to illustrate the currently separate mountains of library and course management resources being bridged, it is a fully JSR168 compliant tool being developed as an experimental option within the new WYSIWYG authoring tool of Sakai. Currently available resources are limited so the effort as is centered on foundational aspects of user interface and integration into Sakai. The goal is to provide a system to make it easier for instructors with limited time and very limited technical expertise to simply locate and reuse digital content, in the widest sense of such content (licensed, local, any media, etc). This tool encompasses several practical functions for teaching and learning like reading lists, creation of guided searches, and course or subject specific web pages. The functionality is targeted for eventual acceptance as a default tool within the core Sakai code.

The toolkit provides instructors with flexible and extensible tools to support development of lab material. The tools are written in Java. They support HTML inputs with additional tags and with programming statements in the Omega language.

The Garden Of Knowledge - in the following referred to as the GOK - is an interactive learning environment for keeping track of the interrelated structure of ideas, designed to support the expression of their relations to other ideas as well as their evolution over time and culture.

Since 2001, the Public Knowledge Project has offered free, open source software for the management and publishing of journals and conferences. Open Journal Systems and Open Conference Systems are being used in various places around the world to reduce publishing costs, improve management, enhance indexing, and increase access to knowledge on a global scale. See Demos and Downloads for more information about these systems.

ePresence Interactive Media software is a content capturing, archiving, and webcasting system that delivers video and presentation media over the internet using multiple streaming formats for multiple platforms. ePresence also supports text and voice interaction among event participants.

The structure of the modern organization resembles the flexible, interlinked web of a fishnet.  Unlike the rigid industrial-era  "pyramid" structure,  a "fishnet organization" is characterized by blurred company boundaries and borders.  Electronic information systems enable parts of the whole organization to communicate directly with each other, whereas the hierarchy wouldn't otherwise permit it (Davis, 1987).  The result is that the new organization is able to deal with changing roles, attitudes, expectations and cultures at a moments notice.

the somewhat strange discussion wrapper

Pachyderm 2.0 is currently in release as a server-hosted, browser-based authoring platform running on servers provided by the New Media Consortium to its membership. The server versions of Pachyderm 2.0, which are being built for Windows, Linux, and OS X servers, will be freely available for download from SourceForge in the first quarter of 2006 when Pachyderm is released in open-source. The availability of the server package downloads will be announced broadly at that time.

Maybe, says Jerry Sternin, the problem isn't with the outside experts or with the company. "The traditional model for social and organizational change doesn't work," says Sternin, 62. "It never has. You can't bring permanent solutions in from outside." Maybe the problem is with the whole model for how change can actually happen. Maybe the problem is that you can't import change from the outside in. Instead, you have to find small, successful but "deviant" practices that are already working in the organization and amplify them. Maybe, just maybe, the answer is already alive in the organization -- and change comes when you find it.

Course Management Systems for Learning: Beyond Accidental Pedagogy is a comprehensive overview of standards, practices and possibilities of course management systems in higher education. Course Management Systems for Learning: Beyond Accidental Pedagogy focuses on what the current knowledge is (in best practices, research, standards and implementations) and the history of the CMS, while also discussing innovative practices in CMS instructional design that have been informed by learning theory and intentional pedagogy. The last section of this book is an invited section, where vendors (WebCT, OKI, Angel) and innovators address their vision of the tools, practices and possibilities in a true next generation. Course Management Systems for Learning: Beyond Accidental Pedagogy represents the points-of-view of a variety of stakeholders and allows each to write in the style and language that is relevant to their field, making this an incredibly useful tool for practitioners, developers, administrators, faculty members, and students.--This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

JXplorer is an open source ldap browser originally developed by Computer Associates' eTrust Directory development lab. It is a standards compliant general purpose ldap browser that can be used to read and search any ldap directory, or any X500 directory with an ldap interface. It is available for immediate free download under a standard OSI-style open source licence.

Helpful site for best practice in installation of Sakai.