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=26)

1. Sakai Pilot Data:
Instructors
UNC Chapel Hill
http://www.unc.edu/sakaipilot/

2. Make me full screen!

3. This is a summary of instructor
survey data collected during
Fall 2008 and Spring 2009.
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. 23
instructor surveys
completed

5. Instructors: Years of Teaching Experience
15
15
11.25
7.5
7
3.75 4
0
1 year or less 2-10 years 11 years or more

6. Instructors: Rate your computer expertise
2
11
11
Novice Intermediate Advanced

7. Instructors: Describe your use of Sakai
11
14
I use a few basic tools
I use several Sakai tools & modify permissions

8. Instructors: Sakai is valuable for...
Posting a syllabus 1 3 21
Posting multimedia content 0 6 19
Posting lecture or course notes BEFORE class 0 6 19
Posting lecture or course notes AFTER class 0 5 19
Posting online readings and other supplementals 0 1 24
Providing a single access point for materials 0 4 22
Posting grades 0 5 20
Posting sample exams & self-tests 1 5 19
0 7.5 15.0 22.5
Disagree Neither agreee nor disagree Agree

9. Instructors: Sakai is valuable for...
Improving my teaching 2 9 13
Improving my students’ learning 0 6 18
Saving me time (efficiency) 1 1 22
Accessing materials any time 0 24
Managing my course activities 1 3 20
Improving my students’ comms w/me 3 4 16
Improving my students’ collab w/each other 2 4 18
0 7.5 15.0 22.5
Disagree Neither Agree nor Disagree Agree

10. Instructors: Sakai is valuable for...
Constructing a calendar of activities 3 7 14
Sending messages or notifications to students 3 4 17
Giving exams and quizzes for grading purposes 3 10 11
Returning assignments w/comments and grades 0 7 16
Providing a structure of activities for students 0 8 16
Holding online office hours 5 18 1
Creating ad-hoc student groups/teams 2 13 9
Monitoring/observing student progress 2 11 11
Supporting distance learning 0 9 14
0 7.5 15.0 22.5
Disagree Neither Agree nor Disagree Agree

11. Instructors:
Sakai is valuable for asking students to...
post questions BEFORE class 1 10 13
post questions DURING class 1 19 4
post questions or responses AFTER class 0 5 18
read and/or comment on each other's work 0 11 13
generate/share instructional materials with each other 0 9 15
work together on a task or assignment 0 16 8
turn in assignments online 0 6 18
access library resources or research help 0 10 14
provide course or lecture feedback 0 15 9
0 7.5 15.0 22.5

12. The following Sakai tools are valuable for my course-related activities
Announcements 1 2 20
Assignments 0 5 18
Blogger 0 19 4
Calendar 0 9 14
Chat room 2 18 3
Discussion forum 0 11 12
Dropbox 0 13 9
Email archive 0 14 9
Forums* 0 14 9
Gradebook 0 6 17
Mailtool 0 10 13
Messages 2 14 7
Lessons 0 12 11
My Workspace 0 10 13
News (RSS) 0 19 4
Polls 0 17 6
Resources 0 3 20
Syllabus 0 3 20
Wiki 0 18 5
Web content 1 3 19
0 7.5 15.0 22.5
Disagree Do not use/neutral Agree

13. Instructors: General LMS Comments
Sakai provides all of the features I need to
support my teaching.
I think that we need to continue to give Sakai a
chance, more than one semester won't be enough
to learn the ins and outs of this software.
I would like to see us move to Sakai 3, and also to
move the Sakai implementation out of pilot.

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