Sakai strategy at UPMC-Paris 6 Author: Yves Epelboin, Manager, Head of IT for Education Narrator: Jean-François Lévêque, Sakai Chief Technical Officer (team of one) UPMC SGTICE/CPM

Agenda UPMC vision Sakai integration at UPMC Practice Next… 211th Sakai Conference - June 15-17, 2010

A few data about UPMC Heir of the Faculty of Sciences of “La Sorbonne” academic staff, support staff students ( in Sciences, in Medicine) A Research university: First French university in all international rankings The largest offer at Master and PhD levels in Sciences: 7 00 PhD/year (8% total French U.) 10 diploma at Bachelor level 10 diploma at master level with 60 specialties 311th Sakai Conference - June 15-17, 2010

IT organization CoStraSI DSI SG TICE CoPil ENT Departments : AdministrationLibraryResearchTeaching… 11th Sakai Conference - June 15-17, 2010

Teaching at UPMC Computer literate Mostly interested in research, not in teaching: Few rewards for innovation in teaching Carrier based on research Students not too proactive Ask for conventional lectures Ask for written documents Not so much “digital native” Officially few students work part or full time 511th Sakai Conference - June 15-17, 2010

The university nightmares Multiple technologies Expertise of technical staff Multiplicity of platforms Staffing Confusion for teachers Multiplicity of tools Confusion for teachers Training Support 6 Standards! 11th Sakai Conference - June 15-17, 2010

The standards Confluence: Technology: Portal: uPortal VLE: Sakai Users Single password, single access All services accessible through the portal Sakai as a service in the portal 711th Sakai Conference - June 15-17, 2010

The vision One single point of entry both for staff and students Three levels of environment: University vision Teacher vision Personal vision 8 Portal Learning Environment My space 11th Sakai Conference - June 15-17, 2010

Sakai INTEGRATION AT UPMC 9

Integration Full hardware integration in ESUP/uPortal IBM blade center SAN ESUP/uPortal SAKAI Same hardware architecture Database on the Same storage system Four blades in parallel for redundancy and load balancing 11th Sakai Conference - June 15-17, 2010

Course support Full manual in French: able able Hotline: Level 1: simple questions referring to manual Level 2 Course opening Bugs Support Level 3 Bugs, malfunctions… Referring to the community 1111th Sakai Conference - June 15-17, 2010

Storage and video 12 Sakai iTunesU ESUP/uPortal Videolibrary 11th Sakai Conference - June 15-17, 2010

PRACTICE 13

Practice : level 1 Resources Ask more than storage of documents Control yourself their use/date of availability… Problems when hiding Communications 1.Mail/announcements… 2.Chat, forum: seldom used except for distance learning Pedagogical path: Melete A fundamental tool but poorly integrated into Sakai Need for a more sophisticated one 1411th Sakai Conference - June 15-17, 2010

Practice: level 2 Tests and quizzes Use of various templates Problems for final exams A very appreciated tool Assignments A very popular tool Drop box (sometimes instead of assignments!) Calendar 1511th Sakai Conference - June 15-17, 2010

Practice: level 3 More sophisticated tests Gradebook Podcast: problem to control space for users Wiki, blog? Web pages… …. 1611th Sakai Conference - June 15-17, 2010

Demands Limitations: Information available from university directory Group constituency External participants Performances in exchanges with university directory WebDAV Large classes Better translation into French: problems in internationalization More pleasant interface 1711th Sakai Conference - June 15-17, 2010

Other uses Continuous Education: A Sakai course is not a course but a room. Common rooms for all students: 1.Library: resources 2.Communication room: mail, chat… Restricted rooms for each module: 1.Melete 2.Test & quizzes… 1811th Sakai Conference - June 15-17, 2010

Use of Sakai : WebCT : Sakai 2006: WebCT : Sakai More than students 500 teachers More than students 500 teachers 11th Sakai Conference - June 15-17, 2010

Some data 2011th Sakai Conference - June 15-17, 2010

NEXT… 21

2010 and next… Translation improvements: internationalization Replacements of old tools: Melete Better use of calendar New tools: EVO,Wims? A growing community at UPMC: 150 academic taught/year A growing community in France and elsewhere in Europe 2211th Sakai Conference - June 15-17, 2010

SAKAI 3 A more attractive interface Sakai 3: a personal space urgently needed but use unknown 23 BUT Sakai 3 is useless if all former tools are not integrated In case Sakai 3 is not ready, Sakai 2.8 will be needed 11th Sakai Conference - June 15-17, 2010

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