8. A Decade of Innovation
●Sakai 2.9 (2013) is a world-class Enterprise
LMS
●We have been a driving force in building
standards and interoperability in LMS systems
●IMS Learning Tools Interoperability
●IMS Common Cartridge
●We have made the market better and safer
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9. True Open Source
●Hundreds of contributors
●50+ Universities and
companies
●Diverse community
●Merit based leadership
●Our plans, roadmaps, and
directions are open
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●Content of slide
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12. Sakai-10 (Mid-2014)
●Peer Review in Assignments
●IMS Learning Tools Interoperability 2.0
●Drag-and-Drop Resource Upload
●Student Success Plan
●Start and End Times for Discussions
●Calculated Question Types
●Extra Credit in the Grade Book
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13. The Impact of Sakai
●Customers of Blackboard, Desire2Learn,
Moodle, and Canvas can thank Sakai for
bringing interoperability to the marketplace
●Sakai pioneered IMS LTI and in effect created a
500-million dollar market for portable learning
tools add-ons that work in any LMS
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14. Have we achieved perfection in
the LMS marketplace?
Can we sit back and relax?
16. Grand Challenges
●Scalability
●Systems with a million students
●Courses with 100,000 students
●Learning Analytics
●The move to mobile as sole device
●Building / using tools outside the LMS
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17. Who Owns Your Data?
●Cloud-hosted systems owned by US vendors
●Externally hosted tools from US vendors
●Analytics from proprietary vendors
●All lead to a loss of control over the data for
your students and teachers
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18. Sakai-10/11 Performance
●In order to scale Sakai to >1M users
●Non-sticky session / dynamic failover
●Reconfigure without reboot
●Dynamic cluster sizing
●Distributed caching MemCache or Hazelcast
●ElasticSearch
●Sakai-10 lays the foundation for scalability
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19. Sakai-11 Road Map
●Roadmap January 2014 / Release Mid-2015
●Responsive Design + Mobile (no frames)
●Dashboard
●Visualization of discussion
●IMS Caliper Learning Analytics
●Increased services available to external tools
●...
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20. Other Apereo Projects
●Learning Analytics Initiative
●Working with the Society for Learning
Analytics (SOLAR)
●Karuta – Portfolio System
●TSUGI – External Tool Hosting Environment
●Working with IMS Global Learning
Consortium
●These will be cross-LMS projects
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21. The De-Coupled LMS
●Increasingly learning needs are met by a
central LMS that provides core functions and
additional tools outside the LMS for advanced
or unique functionality
●Mets the needs of diverse teaching needs
●We can integrate tools from many different
sources
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27. Summary
●Sakai and Apereo are about freedom
●Choose technology
●Choose your deployment strategy
●Choose your commercial partners
●Own your data
●Own your content
●Own your present and your future
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