sakai: free as in freedom (lansing, mi)
DESCRIPTION
I have this talk to the Lansing Capital Area IT Council http://capitalareaitcouncil.org/ membership meeting November-29-2012. It was fun to reminisce about the Sakai project and open source in my town having given this talk all over the world at various venues. Thanks to Clarke for the invite and for setting this up.TRANSCRIPT
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Sakai: Free as In Freedom (Alpha)Dr. Charles Severance29-November-2012
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The Past...
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1995
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1995
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Internet: TCI Show 08http://www.vimeo.com/4275919
1:22
0:52
1995
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1997
Sync-O-Maticwww.syncomat.com
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2000 http://www-personal.umich.edu/~csev/csev/projects/cb2k/index.htm
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http://bit.ly/gGQ1e72001
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2004
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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
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2004
Learning Tools Interoperability
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2005 Common Cartridge
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2006
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Dr. Chuck Travel 2004-2006
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Dr. Chuck - Up in the Air
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Sakai: The Social Network
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2007-02
Cat Herding
Ant Farm
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2007-05
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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
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TeachRelax
ReflectRecharge
2007-2008
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2007
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Standards
Commercial
Open Source
LMS
Publishers
www.imsglobal.org
CommonCartridge
ToolsInteroperability
2008
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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
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05-2010
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VY-Ogkc7Mnw
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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...
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March 26, 2012
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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
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I am not speaking on behalf of Blackboard
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Blackboard, Inc.
I am not speaking on behalf of Blackboard
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Blackboard, Inc.
I am not speaking on behalf of Blackboard
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The New LMS Market...
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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"
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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!
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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
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjgg63cGRLY
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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.
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Thank You
Dr. Charles SeveranceUniversity of Michigan School of Information
@drchuck on Twitter