Updated Road Map on LMS Pilot and Extended Projects

This is a updated ROAD MAP of the LMS Pilot and extended projects:

Learning Management System and ePortfolio

Pilots:

1. Moodle and Mahara (pilot Spring 2009)
2. Sakai and OSP (pilot Spring 2009)
3. Bb and ePortfolio (being constantly reviewed)
   

Potential pilots:

1. Elgg (piloted and available to be integrated with Moodle)
2. Keeps Toolkit
   

Projects:

1. Student ePortfolio and Peer Review (LMS pilot)
2. Project ePortfolio and Collaboration (Ida)
3. Department ePortfolio/Repository for Assessments (Ida)
   

Researches:

1. IMS Content Package (preparing potential Content Migration if we decide to move)
   current: IMS Content Packaging v1.2 CM/DN Release v2.0 Specification
2. IMS ePortfolio (preparing potential eP portability)
   current: MS ePortfolio Specification - Version 1 Public Draft Specification - HTML
   

Instruction Content System

Alfresco Lab 3c (pilot Spring 2009):

1. Integration with LDAP (and CAS if necessary)
2. Integration with LMS (Bb/Sakai?)
3. Integration with ePortfolio systems
4. Integration with Institutional Repository (library?)
5. Implementing Share
6. Integration with Social Networking Platforms (Goole/Facebook gadgets)
7. .. continuing streaming media and Podcasting/iTunes U implementation.
   

Social Networking

1. Implementing OpenSocial containers, mainly Google
2. Implementing OpenID application interface (consumer), mainly Google/LinkedIn
   

Max

The Pilot has Officially Taken Off!

The first "official" Moodle training took place on December 11th. Three faculty attended and spent time exploring the Moodle tools and preparing their spring 2009 Blackboard course for single sign-on to Moodle. Moodle Open Lab is scheduled for January 15th.

Participating faculty on the Moodle Pilot are enrolled in the Moodle Pilot Forum where they will experience the LMS from a student perspective and have easy access to training and documentation materials. More updates as conversations take place!

Sakai Pilot Site is up and running

Sakai Pilot site is now up and running. It is version 2.5.x complied with both core and provisional tools (see http://bugs.sakaiproject.org/confluence/display/DOC/Tool+List+(2.5) ) as well as two additional OSS tools: jForum and Melete from http://etudesproject.org/ .

It is integrated with Fresno LDAP authentication through CAS. The theme is pending to be updated as soon as the initial QA is completed this week.

You will find the site at: http://sakaipilot.tlt.csufresno.edu/

Max

Initial Server Platform Setup

Set up the pilot server virtual instances today for Moodle and Sakai Project pilots:

• MySQL
  
• Moodle
  (reserved url) http://moodlepilot.tlt.csufresno.edu/
  
• Sakai Project
  (reserved url) http://sakaipilot.tlt.csufresno.edu/
  

Server: Dell PowerEdge 2950 / 8 x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5440 @ 2.83GHz, 16GB RAM
OS: VMware ESX Server, 3.5.0
Virtual Machine Instances: 5

Base System:

• MySQL Pilot
  Redhat AS5 (64bit) installed / 2vCPU / 1024MB / 32G+64G diskspace
  
  
• Moodle Pilot
  Redhat AS5 (64bit) installed / 2vCPU / 1024MB / 32G+128G diskspace
  
  
• Sakai Project Pilot
  Redhat AS5 (64bit) pending / 2vCPU / 1024MB / 32G+128G diskspace
  
  

[{CO}2 Portal] Sakai Architecture

Can any Commercial Software provides better documentation support than this? Check this out - Sakai 2.1 Architecture (in Text view)! Awesome ..

http://www.columbia.edu/~slt/sakai/sakai_2-1-0/docs/architecture/text/

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Posted by Max J. Tsai to {CO}2 Portal at 12/01/2005 10:41:00 PM

[{CO}2 Portal] Sakai 2_1_0 Released

Sakai 2_1_0 Released

Quote: The release includes in addition performance enhancements, UI improvements, and many other fixes to issues reported for the 2.0 releases. You'll also find that collab.sakaiproject.org is now running 2.1.0!

Sakai 2.1.0 is provided in demo, source, and binary distributions, and can be downloaded from:
http://www.sakaiproject.org/release

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Posted by Max J. Tsai to {CO}2 Portal at 12/01/2005 10:38:00 PM

[{CO}2 Portal] LAMS Integration

Here comes LAMS to rescue ..

LAMS (http://lamsfoundation.org/) - Learning Activity Management System

• LAMS with Sakai2
• LAMS with Moodle
• LAMS with Blackboard

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Posted by Max J. Tsai to {CO}2 Portal at 11/30/2005 09:11:00 AM

[{CO}2 Portal] The Base: The Sakai Project

Why I choose Sakai Project as the base platform?

As Sakai is not only desgined as a LMS, but *really* a Collaboration and Learning Environment. It is desgned as a platform to integrate and to be integrated. Version 2.0 started to give a complete look and became more stable. The most important is that Sakai is built on standards and well recognized frameworks. It gives the developers total control to implement and to expand. more ..

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Posted by Max J. Tsai to {CO}2 Portal at 11/27/2005 01:06:00 PM

[{CO}2 Portal] [Max@Wrok] Sakai 2.1 Updates

Oct 2005: Started QA testing on 2_1

Current Test build: 2_1_004 on Windows XP.
svn co https://source.sakaiproject.org/svn/tags/sakai_2-1-0_005

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Posted by Max J. to {CO}2 Portal at 11/27/2005 07:35:00 AM

[sakai-dev] Check it out! MLE - Mac Learning Env.

http://maclearningenvironments.org/

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Posted by Max (aka. JANQ) to sakai-dev at 11/16/2005 11:03:00 PM

[sakai-dev] Sakai 2.1 Web Services for Integration

Sakai 2.1's Web Services give an easy way for creating users and worksites (course or organization). Cool for people doing SIS integration like I do. Anyone else is interested in Peoplesoft?

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Posted by Max (aka. JANQ) to sakai-dev at 11/16/2005 07:37:00 AM

[sakai-dev] {CO}2

{CO}2 stands for COllaboration and COmmunication! Like the name? Here we go ..

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Posted by Max (aka. JANQ) to sakai-dev at 11/09/2005 07:06:00 PM

Sakai or Moodle (Part1)?

I often look into Moodle vs. Bb or Sakai vs. Bb in terms of Moodle vs. Sakai. So now, how about Moodle vs. Sakai?

I think Moodle does have the fresh look with the non-Blackboardish design, but, interesting enough, while the Course Menu Block to enable Moodle in structured format gets more popular, does that mean "Bb like" is what people want? Personally, I really think Sakai is more WebCT'an than Bb'ish.

A big question is whether Moodle or Sakai can provide the capacity of Bb for the Universities and providing Enterprise level integration with the campus Student Information System and Library System? Also, how about vendor support? Is it easier for current Bb Building Block (J2EE) vendors to support Sakai (J2EE) or Moodle (PHP)? Moreover, how about the Content System and ePortfolio support? Bb has spent a lot of effort on rolling out the Bb Content System and Sakai has built in WebDAV based content system and is in the process of combining the development effort of OSP and Sakai.

more to come ..


-Max

[sakai-dev] Oracle XE and Sakai

How about a "small scale" Sakai with the Free Oracle eXpress Edition? I have set up an experiental environment on Windows XP + Tomcat 5.5+comp. with JDK1.4 + Sakai 2_1_002. more detail

[sakai-dev] Comb. effort on OSP and Sakai

Max,

Our next release of OSP should be on Sakai 2.1 plus some additional
features that we will be adding during the next few months. The
scheduled release for this should be sometime next spring.
The osp site (http://www.osportfolio.org/) should have a high level timeline.

John

[sakai-dev] You don't want to miss Kuali ..

"The Kuali Project creates software that provides a comprehensive suite of functionality to serve the financial systems needs of all Carnegie Class institutions. It includes such functional elements as Flexible Chart of Accounts, General Ledger, General Accounting, Accounts Receivable, Capital Asset Management, Pre and Post-Award Administration, Purchasing, Accounts Payable, Cash Receipting and Disbursement, Travel Requisition and Reimbursement, Auxiliary Accounting, Web-based e-Commerce, Budget Construction and Administration. The design is an enhancement of the proven functionality of Indiana University’s Financial Information System. A critical element of the system is the XML-based OneStart© workflow for routing and approval of financial transactions. Extensive data warehousing and decision support tools will be an integral part of the system.' from Kuali at http://kualiproject.org/

See demo in PPT.

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Posted by Max (aka. JANQ) to sakai-dev at 11/08/2005 07:03:00 PM

[sakai-dev] rSmart and IBM Partner to Offer Bundled Solution for Sakai 2.0

The rSmart/IBM Sakai 2.0 bundle for Education is expected to be released in November. Sakai on IBM WebShpere(R) software and IBM DB2(R) database! more..

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Posted by Max (aka. JANQ) to sakai-dev at 11/08/2005 06:41:00 PM

[sakai-dev] SEPP Project Matchmaking Tool

http://sakai.berkeley.edu/pm/

Very impressive~

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Posted by Max (aka. JANQ) to sakai-dev at 11/08/2005 06:42:00 PM

[Digital Campus] [Open Source LMS] SAKAI 2_1_002 release

Sakai 2_1_002 released.
svn co https://source.sakaiproject.org/svn/tags/sakai_2-1-0_002

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Posted by Max J. Tsai to Open Source LMS at 11/02/2005 09:02:00 PM

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Posted by Max J. Tsai to Digital Campus at 11/02/2005 09:05:23 PM