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10-29-2010 Sakai deployment at UD
1. LMS Selection and Deployment:
Sakai@UD
Northeast E-Learning Consortium Meeting, Thomas Jefferson University
October 29, 2010
Mathieu Plourde, LMS Project Leader
IT Client Support & Services
2. Summary
• Selection
• Migration from WebCT to Sakai
• Current Metrics
• E-Portfolios
• Questions and Answers
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4. WebCT
• Centrally-supported LMS since 2000
• Adoption grew progressively
• Mandatory faculty training to get started
• Course request process, site created by IT staff
• Current version was getting outdated (4.1)
• Looking into migrating to WebCT Vista in 2006
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6. What Now?
• Fear of being locked-down into a technology with
a limited life expectancy
• LMS selection process is long and painful
• Prior experience with open-source technologies:
• UPortal
• Open-Source Portfolios
• One of our IT Director was on the original Sakai Board
of Directors
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7. Chair’s Workshop - May 9, 2007
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As presented by Leila Lyons (IT) and Havidán Rodríguez (Deputy Provost)
8. FALL ‘07 WINTER ‘08 SPRING ‘08 SUMMER ‘08
Fall LMS
Committee Retreat
Faculty and staff are
given access to
Sakai after the
Summer Faculty
Institute
3-20-2008:
Sakai announced as
next LMS at UD
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Academic Year 2007-08
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Sakai 2.4 pilots on
test server
Sakai 2.5 deployed on
production server
Departmental demos,
faculty developing Fall ‘08
courses, individual
consultations
+ WebCT support
Winter LMS
Committee Retreat
Begin full
operational
support for
Sakai
Unicon Strategic
Planning Session
10. Categories of Faculty Users
• Prior WebCT Users:
• Migrated all their courses to Sakai.
• Migrated some courses to Sakai.
• Did not migrate anything yet, but intends to do so.
• Did not migrate, and does not intend to.
• Other Users:
• New to using a LMS.
• New UD Faculty.
• Non-Users.
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11. Categories of Faculty Users
• Prior WebCT Users:
• Migrated all their courses to Sakai.
• Migrated some courses to Sakai.
• Did not migrate anything yet, but intends to do so.
• Did not migrate, and does not intend to.
• Other Users:
• New to using a LMS.
• New UD Faculty.
• Non-Users.
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I’m waiting until the next
semester I am teaching.
I hope to catch up during
slower times, like Summer.I’m about to retire, so
don’t bug me!
I don’t need any technology
to teach my course!
I don’t need an LMS anymore.
Sakai is missing a feature
I had in WebCT!
I’m doing just fine with
my own Web 2.0 stuff.
Show me what is available
at UD.
I did not know about
WebCT, but Sakai is great!
12. Use of the LMS
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Source: Faculty survey, May 2009.
13. Usefulness of Support Methods
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Workshops
Consultations
Basics Documents
Educational Priniciples
Tasks Page
Captivate Tutorials
Other Documents
Dept. Demos
Source: Faculty survey, May 2009.
15. FALL ‘08 WINTER ‘09 SPRING ‘09 SUMMER ‘09
Begin full
operational
support for
Sakai
Departmental demos, faculty developing and delivering their courses,
self-help, workshops, individual consultations + WebCT support
Project sites made
available for Faculty/Staff
Metrics Fall 2008
Sakai sites 597 course sites
WebCT sites 571 course sites
Target 20% of course sites on Sakai
Actual 51% of course sites on Sakai
Metrics Spring 2009
Sakai sites 723 course sites
WebCT sites 362 course sites
Target 50% of course sites on Sakai
Actual 67% of course sites on Sakai
Sakai track at Summer
Faculty Institute
Faculty survey
Deployment of
Sakai 2.6
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Academic Year 2008-09
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16. FALL ‘09 WINTER ‘10 SPRING ‘10 SUMMER ‘10
End of Blackboard full
operational support
for WebCT 4.1
6-10-2010:
WebCT Server
Turned OffFaculty developing and delivering their courses, self-help,
workshops, individual consultations
Metrics Fall 2009
Sakai sites 978 course sites
WebCT sites 21 course sites
Target 80% of course sites on Sakai
Actual 98% of course sites on Sakai
3-1-2010:
Deadline to ask to
restore an archived
WebCT site
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Academic Year 2009-10
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11-2-2009:
Presentation at the
Faculty Senate
Deployment of
Sakai 2.6.1 Metrics Spring 2010
Sakai sites 1226 course sites
WebCT sites 0 course sites
Target 95% of course sites on Sakai
Actual 100% of course sites on Sakai
20. Fall 2010: Proportion of Course Sections
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n=4,300
51%
49% Course Sections in Sakai
Course Sections Not in Sakai
21. Fall 2010: Proportion of Student Course Registrations
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n=106,819
58%
42% Registrations in Sakai
Registrations not in Sakai
22. Beyond Courses…
• Published project sites: 389 (as of Spring 2010)
• E-portfolios (OSP):
• Assessment and presentation purposes
• Some early adopters/pilots:
• Secondary Science Education
• Nutrition and Dietetics
• Seed grants process (CFEE)
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25. From Selection to Deployment
• Internal grants awarded from the Provost’s Office
to 12 projects
• Programmatic approach
• Pilot for Fall 2010
• Primary focus of assessing General Education
Goals
• Use of OSP in Sakai@UD
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26. Units Involved
CFEE
OA CTL
IT
CS&S ATS
Programs
Art C Mktg Ed.L Fash. HDFS HRIM
Eng. Tech Engl.Music Psy. Ed. Sp. Mgmt SSP
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30. Final Thoughts
• Open source is not free
• Freedom of use
• Decoupling of code and support
• Commercial affiliates available to help
• Sakai community
• Professional development
• Responsiveness
• “Do-ocracy” (you get what you give)
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