sakai: free as in freedom (lansing, mi)

Sakai: Free as In Freedom (Alpha)Dr. Charles Severance29-November-2012

The Past...

1995

1995

Internet: TCI Show 08http://www.vimeo.com/4275919

1:22

0:52

1995

1997

Sync-O-Maticwww.syncomat.com

2000 http://www-personal.umich.edu/~csev/csev/projects/cb2k/index.htm

http://bit.ly/gGQ1e72001

2004

Membership Level

Non-Profit

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1/14/04 7/12/04 1/8/05 7/7/05 1/3/06 7/2/06 12/29/06

2004

Learning Tools Interoperability

2005 Common Cartridge

2006

Dr. Chuck Travel 2004-2006

Dr. Chuck - Up in the Air

Sakai: The Social Network

2007-02

Cat Herding

Ant Farm

2007-05

Self-Service Exit Interview

Bring an enterprise-level open source LMS into the Market

Collect bright worldwide developer community and open up campus IT staff to a world of fun possibility

Enable the rapid creation of new tools

Create a "Learning Tool App Store"

Empower teachers to write, share and use lots of toolsX

X

X08-2007

TeachRelax

ReflectRecharge

2007-2008

2007

Standards

Commercial

Open Source

LMS

Publishers

www.imsglobal.org

CommonCartridge

ToolsInteroperability

2008

Early Work on Standards

• IMS Learning Tools Interoperability

• Lots of convincing and cajoling (and beer)

• Strategic chess game

• Sakai, Blackboard, Moodle, ...

http://www.vimeo.com/7825070 1:482009

05-2010

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VY-Ogkc7Mnw

Later that day, I receive a text message from an unknown 202 area code number:

You will soon work for me.

February 15, 2012

Getting a bit restless...

March 26, 2012

Chuck and Blackboard

• Sakai Chief Strategist

• Continue as full-time faculty member at University of Michigan

• I am paid to work on Sakai and contribute to the trunk

• I can use internal resources such as documentation and QA

• I can hire contractors to work on Sakai

• Advocate internally for Standards, Interoperability, and Open Source

I am not speaking on behalf of Blackboard

Blackboard, Inc.

I am not speaking on behalf of Blackboard

Blackboard, Inc.

I am not speaking on behalf of Blackboard

The New LMS Market...

The Market is Different in 2012

• Vendors are rushing to support IMS standards for Interoperability

• Common Cartridge

• Learning Tools Interoperability

• Standards save everyone money and make them money - expands the entire market place - interoperability is the "new normal"

Instructure: Rapid Penetration

• Instructure Canvas is open source - Affero GPL - to avoid being sued!

• Zero engineering investment in proprietary expansion points for users

• LTI Expansion is perfectly engineered for hosted multi-tenant instance

• Publisher content using IMS Common Cartridge

• We did all the hard work and made this way too easy for Instructure!

New Effect: Venture Capital

• Between 1999 and 2010, the LMS marketplace was a village

• Everyone knows everyone

• Changes slowly - Blackboard / Pearson buy folks once in a while

• New level of investment, new tolerance for risk, new pace of innovation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjgg63cGRLY

Moving Towards the Cloud

• The forefront of innovation will move away from the LMS and toward new tools and groups of tools

• The LMS will still carry the load of much of your local work and be the place that you innovate locally

• Increasingly core teaching tools like assessment and structured content will be common across LMS systems and integrated using standards.

Thank You

Dr. Charles SeveranceUniversity of Michigan School of Information

www.dr-chuck.comcsev@umich.edu

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