Tag Archives: Sakai Project

Sakai Conference: Kamenetz Keynote

OK, this was worth the wait. I have video of Anya Kamenetz’s keynote, which set the tone for the Sakai Conference 2010 in some important ways. I also have a short video interview with her, some related video content from … Continue reading

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Understanding the Sakai Product Council

If you have never been involved with an open source project, one of the great sources of mystification (and anxiety) for you might be how a group of people spread out all over the world with a wide range of … Continue reading

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Academic Study of Blackboard vs. Sakai at UNC School of Medicine

Brian Moynihan has posted his Masters Thesis on University of North Carolina School of Medicine’s LMS evaluation, which eventually came down to a shootout between Blackboard and Unicon-supported Sakai. There’s a lot that’s of interest in this paper, particularly around … Continue reading

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Mellon Foundation RIT Project Concludes a Success

This is a guest post by Jim Farmer. Apologies to Jim; this has been sitting in my inbox for a couple of weeks now. “The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is closing a grant program that financed a series of high-profile … Continue reading

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Sakai Learning Capabilities Brainstorming

This is a guest post by David Goodrum. David is Director of Academic and Faculty Services at Indiana University and a member of the Sakai Foundation Product Council. I asked David to write a post about the process that he … Continue reading

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