sakai11 la opensyllabus
DESCRIPTION
Open Syllabus (OSyl) is now a fully functional Sakai 2.7 contrib tool that helps instructors quickly organise their course's material to provide a coherent learning environment for their students.TRANSCRIPT
OpenSyllabus: Building a Coherent Learning Environment in Sakai 2.x
Jacques Raynauld, Faculty, HEC MontréalMartin Montminy, Business Analyst, HEC Montréal
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FINALLY, OPEN SYLLABUS IS NOW AVAILABLE … …first discussion at the Newport Beach Sakai conference in December 2007
Thanks to the team!
Objectives of the session
• Overview of a new course site authoring tool to organize quickly all your Sakai resources and tools
• Convince you of the importance of using some kind of structure or semantic approach for Sakai course websites
• Faculty? Teaching Support? IT? Deans? Students? • Possible Sakai adoption?
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Outline
• HEC Montréal and the origins of the project
• Syllabi and Sakai• Quick demo of the tool• Open Syllabus structure and architecture• Summary, roadmap and questions
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• Large business school • Part of the University of
Montreal campus• 12 000 students• 250 career professors• 500 adjuncts• 4 000 full time undergraduate students• Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise Campus
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Origins of the project
• Learning material disseminated in various course web sites …
• Very confusing for the staff, the students and the public …
• Development of an in-house easy-to-use Web platform to build a centralized electronic syllabi web depot
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Origins of the project
• Good tool …. but unable to share the code for technical reasons
• Spring 2007 : consensus to rewrite the program with a open source vision (Sakai)
• CRIM and the University of Montreal joined the team and brought their expertise and their experience (use cases)
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Origins of the project
• Proof of concept at the Paris 2009 meetings
• Beta version at the Boston 2009 meetings• Pilot in the 2010 Winter term• Report on the pilot in Denver 2010 • Large roll-out in the Fall 2010 (10 000
students).
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SYLLABI AND SAKAI
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Syllabi and Sakai
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1. Contact information2. Objectives3. Requirements (evaluation)4. Grading5. College policies6. Schedule of readings, due
date
PDF - paper• Documents to download
(pdf, ppt, doc, etc.)• Citations• Hyperlinks• Assignments• Quizzes• Discussion Boards• Etc.
Ressources - web
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Syllabi and Sakai
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1. Contact information2. Objectives3. Requirements (evaluation)4. Grading5. College policies6. Schedule of readings, due
date
PDF - paper
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Actual Syllabus tool in Sakai
Post a doc or PDF fileUse an editor
No semantic or tool integration
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Syllabi and Sakai
• There is a need for a tool to organise all the resources (files, citations) and tools (test&quiz, assignments,etc.) in one easy to consult place
QUICK DEMO OF THE TOOLSCREEN CAST HTTP://VIMEO.COM/24932699SAND-BOX : HTTP://OSYLTEST.HEC.CA
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Demo
• We are going to demo a Sakai friendly version of Open Syllabus (not the one used at HEC Montréal)
• Works like any other Sakai Contrib tool – easy to install – part of the list of tools
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Demo
• Creation of an OpenSyllabus course site• Superb integration with resources,
citations and tools (entity picker)• PDF printing• OpenSyllabus sites can be copied (links to
the tools are preserved) • Etc.
OPEN SYLLABUS ARCHITECTURE
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Open Syllabus architecture
Root
Structure
Unit
Context
Resource
Semantic organization makes OpenSyllabus a very powefull and evolutive tool (mobile version)
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OpenSyllabus Architecture
Sakaï ServerOpen Syllabus Server Open Syllabus Client –
Google Web Tool kit
Exchange of XML files between Open syllabus server and client
Sakai Tools - Services
OpenSyllabus Architecture
• Allows access to computer databases accessible trough the Z39.50 client server-protocol such as library catalogue.
• Allows a faster integration of the citation helper tool
Z39.50 Repository OSIDImplementation
Integrated Library System
Z39.50 communications
protocolOSID RETURN
OSID CALL
SUMMARY, ROAD MAP AND QUESTIONS
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10 good reasons for Open Syllabus
1. Student request : What should I do? Where is it? Especially for distance learning!
2. Faculty requests : keep it simple (training)!3. Regular contrib tool … simple to make it
available4. Thoroughly tested by 10 000 students and
500+ instructors at HEC Montréal
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10 good reasons for Open Syllabus
5. Easy to modify the templates for the wording of your institution
6. Archive/Share/Export6. Cutting work : PDF printing for students7. Public gate for the community, future
students, parents, etc.8. Reporting : assessment methods,
accreditation, Bologna, etc.
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10 good reasons for structured syllabi
9. Dynamic links to your library catalog (Z39.50).
10. Sakai OAE ready!
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Road-map and questions
• Available now for Sakai 2.7• Migration to Sakai 2.8 coming• Plans for a mobile version• Other nice features presented by Martin
Montminy – Life Cycle Management at HEC Montréal, Thursday 12:30:13:30, San Gabriel A
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Road-map and questions
• Tech Demo Wednesday at 5pm• http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/
OSYL/OpenSyllabus+Home• Sakai SVN – available now!• Video : http://vimeo.com/24932699• Test server : http://osyltest.hec.ca• [email protected]
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