“ Sakai Is Probably Healthier Than You Think,” Michael Feldstein suggests. Education Politics. “ Education Department Proposes New Regulations to Protect Students and Taxpayers from Predatory Institutions.” ” From the Times Higher Education by way of Inside Higher Ed : “Poll of faculty members and administrators in British higher education finds they want their country to remain in E.U. MORE

You’re talking about the LMS project, Sakai ? The campus of the future will be “networked,” argues Peter Smith, meaning that more and more academic-related services will be outsourced. That, in theory, will allow each campus to focus its energies on what it can do best and turn to outside companies and nonprofits for the rest. MORE

” UC Davis suffered a week-long LMS outage , and lots of folks had to weigh in with their thoughts on what this meant about Sakai , running one’s own infrastructure , and open source. Via Edutechnica : “ Sakai by the Numbers.” Education Politics. “ New Education Law: Bipartisan No More.” ” Republicans are made because the Department of Education issued guidelines about how ESSA should be implemented. MORE

Sakai Strategies assessment distance learningAssessment was the topic for the final week of the BlendKit course and the reading included a great list of rubrics to help participants examine their own work. My favorite rubric came from Blackboard’s Exemplary Course Program. It was developed for a contest but can just as easily help instructors directly examine course materials for a blended or hybrid course in […]. MORE

Unicheck, specifically, is compatible with Canvas , Google Classroom, Moodle , Schoology , Sakai, NEO LMS and Blackboard. Has the ubiquity of social media given plagiarism new life? Whether or not the Internet is to blame, plagiarism seems to have become more socially acceptable across grade levels. Sharing other people’s thoughts, jokes and artwork on the Internet is an everyday act. MORE

The Sakai Project, an effort to build a community-source learning-management system as an alternative to commercial systems like Blackboard, started with great fanfare and grant support in 2004—but its use has shrunk to less than 3 percent of the LMS market in North America in 2018, according to a report by e-Literate. MORE

Sakai instructional design learning5 from @ProfHacker and a few of my own @AnaSalter. MORE

News Product info Strategies assessment learning LMS Sakaicreate items in the app and port them over, using the markup options in the LMS. MORE

We manually rebuilt each course half a dozen times or more, in Blackboard, Sakai, Canvas, and other systems. The tl;dr: Supporting effective OER adoption at scale has its problems. Many of these problems have openly licensed solutions. Sometimes it makes sense to deploy these solutions yourself; sometimes it makes more sense to work with a partner. Background and Some Problems. MORE

I wonder if that holds true across other LMS tools (Moodle, Sakai, Canvas, etc). How do instructors and learners use learning management systems? Blackboard shared some interesting stats about what people actually do with their LMS. The results confirm what many LMS critics (like myself) have been saying for a while. It’s impressive that Blackboard is willing to confirm our observations. MORE

What’s happening with Sakai? What will the learning management system ( LMS ) become? Yesterday the Future Trends Forum met with Phil Hill of E-literate and Mindwires to explore this question, based on Phil’s extensive expertise. Discussion began at an energetic clip and built rapidly from there. MORE

The five most popular LMSs (Moodle, Blackboard, Canvas, D2L and Sakai), which account for more than 90 percent of the market share in higher education, are all designed based on a 10-year-old standard called the Learning Tools Interoperability (or LTI) standard. This article is written as a response to this commentary by Matthew Rascoff.who never asked for this. In the interest of full disclosure: I’m a co-founder of Acadly. MORE

And of course, Instructure (Canvas), Moodle Pty Ltd (Moodle), Longsight (Sakai), and other companies provide for-fee, value-added services around Learning Management Systems hosting and support. There was a lot of discussion at OpenEd17 about the relationship between OER and value-added services like platforms. The discussion was energized by an announcement made by Cengage immediately ahead of the conference, but this is a conversation that has been percolating for a while now. MORE

What’s happening with Sakai? What will the learning management system ( LMS ) become? Yesterday the Future Trends Forum met with Phil Hill of E-literate and Mindwires to explore this question, based on Phil’s extensive expertise. Discussion began at an energetic clip and built rapidly from there. MORE