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Hoping to Spur 'Learning Engineering,' Carnegie Mellon Will Open-Source Its Digital-Learning Software

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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.

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Longtime Higher Ed Leader (and Former U.S. Congressman) Argues For a ‘Networked College’

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You’re talking about the LMS project, Sakai ? And I can choose my setting—group study or independent study, or this or that. I remember in the early part of this decade, or the last decade, when about 10 colleges got together and they were going to create their own learning management system. And it just was a disaster.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” More on this study in the research section below. ” 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.” “Try marketing.”

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KITABOO facilitates key LMS integrations with advanced technological features

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KITABOO, the world’s leading digital publishing, and content delivery platform offers seamless integration with the popular LMSs such as Moodle, Schoology, Sakai, etc, and any LMS that supports LTI 1.1 Open-source implies that you can run, share, study and modify the software to your unique needs, with the appropriate attributions.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Sakai Is Probably Healthier Than You Think,” Michael Feldstein suggests. Via Inside Higher Ed : “Knowing how often college students log onto learning management software is one of the best ways to predict whether they will stick with their studies or drop out.”