Sakai 10 and BeyondNext Steps for Sakai

Charles Severance University of Michigan

Sakai PMC Member

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Programming for Everybody

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A Decade of Innovation

●Sakai 2.9 (2013) is a world-class Enterprise LMS

●We have been a driving force in building standards and interoperability in LMS systems

●IMS Learning Tools Interoperability

●IMS Common Cartridge

●We have made the market better and safer

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True Open Source

●Hundreds of contributors

●50+ Universities and companies

●Diverse community

●Merit based leadership

●Our plans, roadmaps, and directions are open

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US Market Share

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November 2012

Sakai-10 (Mid-2014)

●Peer Review in Assignments

●IMS Learning Tools Interoperability 2.0

●Drag-and-Drop Resource Upload

●Student Success Plan

●Start and End Times for Discussions

●Calculated Question Types

●Extra Credit in the Grade Book

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The Impact of Sakai

●Customers of Blackboard, Desire2Learn, Moodle, and Canvas can thank Sakai for bringing interoperability to the marketplace

●Sakai pioneered IMS LTI and in effect created a 500-million dollar market for portable learning tools add-ons that work in any LMS

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Have we achieved perfection in the LMS marketplace?

Can we sit back and relax?

No.

We cannot relax, we must push harder. Learning is

changing.

Grand Challenges

●Scalability

●Systems with a million students

●Courses with 100,000 students

●Learning Analytics

●The move to mobile as sole device

●Building / using tools outside the LMS

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Who Owns Your Data?

●Cloud-hosted systems owned by US vendors

●Externally hosted tools from US vendors

●Analytics from proprietary vendors

●All lead to a loss of control over the data for your students and teachers

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Sakai-10/11 Performance

●In order to scale Sakai to >1M users

●Non-sticky session / dynamic failover

●Reconfigure without reboot

●Dynamic cluster sizing

●Distributed caching MemCache or Hazelcast

●ElasticSearch

●Sakai-10 lays the foundation for scalability

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Sakai-11 Road Map

●Roadmap January 2014 / Release Mid-2015

●Responsive Design + Mobile (no frames)

●Dashboard

●Visualization of discussion

●IMS Caliper Learning Analytics

●Increased services available to external tools

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Other Apereo Projects

●Learning Analytics Initiative

●Working with the Society for Learning Analytics (SOLAR)

●Karuta – Portfolio System

●TSUGI – External Tool Hosting Environment

●Working with IMS Global Learning Consortium

●These will be cross-LMS projects20

The De-Coupled LMS

●Increasingly learning needs are met by a central LMS that provides core functions and additional tools outside the LMS for advanced or unique functionality

●Mets the needs of diverse teaching needs

●We can integrate tools from many different sources

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Summary

●Sakai and Apereo are about freedom

●Choose technology

●Choose your deployment strategy

●Choose your commercial partners

●Own your data

●Own your content

●Own your present and your future

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