StellarSakai: An Overview

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Stellar-Sakai An Overview

• March 7, 2005
• Vijay Kumar, Jeff Merriman, Ben Brophy

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Stellar
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Why Stellar?

• Creating Class Websites
• Stellar was originally envisioned as an easy way
  for instructors at MIT to create class websites -
  a simple alternative to Athena lockers.
• We added tools to extend the functionality of
  those websites

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Integration

• Electronic reserves Libraries add materials.
  Registered students use under fair use.
• Registration lists Registrations lists loaded in
  to class websites from registrars office.
• Student photos available to instructors, via Card
  office
• OpenCourseWare Complete classes can be imported
  into OpenCourseWare.

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User Centered Design

• Stellar has been developed through instructor
  input.
• Stellar users are involved in development process
  through requirements gathering, prototype
  testing, and usability reviews.
• This process will move into the development of
  tools for Sakai as well.
• Stellar Faculty Advisory

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A Few Statistics

• Last Tuesday
• 500 simultaneous users
• 2850 unique users logged in that day
• No perf degradation
• 26 Course VI websites

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Sakai
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High Level Sakai Goals

• Full featured Collaborative Learning Environment
  to replace existing ones on core member campuses.
• A framework which will enable the creation of new
  tools and services which will be portable to
  other Sakai environments.
• Leverage standards and specifications such as IMS
  and OKI for interoperability.
• Create a modular system that can aggregate
  content from a variety of sources, e.g., OCW,
  DSpace --- not just those created by Sakai.

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Sakai for MIT

• Sakai is creating a common development platform
  for many institutions
• We can access Sakai tools created anywhere, and
  still build new tools at MIT
• Example Samigo is a quizzing and testing tool
  developed at Stanford and Indiana that feeds into
  the Sakai gradebook.
• Increases our ability to provide tools

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The MIT EcosystemIntegrated, Diverse Suite of
Applications

• Applications and Tools
• Metamedia Narratories
• HPC Applications
• Collaboration Tools (Desktop and Web)
• Tutors
• Tools from Elsewhere ( Labs, Simulations Open
  Source Proprietory)
• Content Authoring Tools
• Access to Repositories
• OCW Dspace Other

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Leveraging OKI

• Potential Tools and Repositories (OKI-OSID
  Based)VUE - Concept Mapping/Desktop Authoring -
  Tufts University SAMigo - Assessment - Stanford,
  IndianaLionshare - Peer-Peer App. Penn State
  University Segue/Harmoni - LMS - Middlebury
  CollegeDigital Library Systems/Repositories Fed
  ora (Cornell) EduSource (Canada) Celebrate
  (EU) DSpace, (MIT) ArtSTOR

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