2. What is Sakai? The Sakai CLE is a flexible Open-source software The Sakai CLE is distributed as free 2
3. Brief History about Sakai 1990’s Research projects and home-grown 2000’s Recognition of a common needs, 2003 Mellon Grant 2005 Non-profit
4. Foundation of Sakai is Supported by voluntary partnercontributions Governed by Board of Directors elected by Sakai Partners A member-based, non-profit corporation
5. The Sofware ( sakai) is Collaboration and Learning EnvironmentProvides users with a suite of learning, portfolioOpen-Source – free to download, customize, and contribute
6. provides users with a suite of learning, portfolio The Sofware ( sakai) is 6 Collaboration and Learning Environment no fee or royalties open-Source – free to download, customize, and contribute educational community license no copyleft restrictions
7. Technical goals of sakai Scalability Extensibity Flexibity Separation of Concerns
8. Why sakai ? 8 Supporting e-learning Communication Content asigment and management, Tracking and reporting Managing access to system