During Fall 2008 and Spring 2009, UNC Chapel Hill conducted a pilot of Sakai, a community-source collaborative learning environment. This slideshow summarizes the results. (n=29)

1. Sakai Pilot Data:
Project Site Collaborators
UNC Chapel Hill
http://www.unc.edu/sakaipilot/

2. Make me full screen!

3. This is a summary of project site
collaborator survey data collected
during Fall 2008 and Spring 2009.
Project sites are used for a variety of
collaboration purposes.
Surveys were based on U of Michigan CTools
Surveys.
For more information about UNC’s assessment, go
to: http://www.unc.edu/sakaipilot/blog/?page_id=33

4. 29
collaborator
surveys
completed

5. Collaborators:
Rate your computer expertise
2
14
13
Advanced Intermediate Novice

6. Collaborators: Sakai is valuable for...
Academic writing 3 18 8
Administrative activities 1 9 18
Faculty research 2 15 11
Managing special events 3 14 12
Non-academic purposes (clubs) 2 16 11
Personal use (storage) 9 10 10
Student-initiated research projects 2 17 9
Student work, team projects 4 8 16
Teaching coordination 2 5 20
Training 2 12 14
0 7.5 15.0 22.5 30.0
Disagree Neutral Agree

7. Collaborators: General LMS Comments
It's important to have a tool like Sakai. So much
collaborative work goes on that one needs a
tool to keep it organized.
It's nearly impossible to come up with a one-size-
fits-all application for UNC-CH. However, Sakai is a
very capable successor to Blackboard, plus it has
the added benefit of meeting a variety of other needs
(committees, working groups, research collaboration,
administrative functions) with one tool.
Where possible, I think that the University should be
using and supporting software that is free and open-
source, such as Sakai.

8. Creative Commons
Creative Commons License Deed
Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States
http://www.unc.edu/sakaipilot/