Beyond Resources Rethinking Content Sharing and Presentation in Sakai Barbra Mack, Nicola Monat-Jacobs New York University

The Vision: “Beyond Resources” “ Make Sakai a Personalized, Web-based Center for Creating, Organizing, and Sharing Content and Participating with the Academic Community.” 2

3 The Vision: “Beyond Resources” What is “Beyond Resources”? Background and Context Findings The User The Model Implementation Ideas What do you think?

4 What is “Beyond Resources?” Sakai Now: Focused on storing resources and independent tools Difficult to use resources and share across multiple tools, sites, groups, and campuses.

5 What is “Beyond Resources?” Sakai of the Future: Gather Organize Manage Share Comment

6 Background and Context NEW YORK UNIVERSITY: 6,926 Faculty 50,917 Students 8,871 Staff 14 Schools and at least 25 Study Abroad Programs Research 1 University - Urban Campus Largest Private University in the US

7 Background and Context Library and Institutional Repositories: Electronic subscriptions to: 42,000+ journals 1,000+ databases 500,000+ e-books Exploring Primo as federated search solution Enterprise file management D- Space, Xythos, and LUNA Host streaming, multimedia, and departmental file servers

8 Background and Context Blackboard Usage: 75% of all courses (4,492) 69% of faculty (4,759) 81% of students (41,277 ) 44,917 unique users

9 Background and Context NYU Sakai Pilot: ALEX : 3 consecutive semesters 47 faculty participants Used in live classes Formal direct-feedback system Analyzed results

10 Findings “Need more intuitive content display.” “Improve the content display.” “Not usable by instructor not usable by students. Can’t present content in a way to make organizational and conceptual structure clear.” “Must change this interface and have easier, more flexible, more readable, more intuitive way for faculty to present content to students.”

11 Findings

12 Findings What do faculty want?  make their own work readily available to others  have easy access to others' work  control the presentation of the materials they wish to share;  control access to the materials they wish to share  organize their materials and references according to their own schema  integrate the management and presentation of materials that are currently stored and accessed in disparate institutional systems and locations

13 Findings

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15 Findings

16 The Users

17 The Users User Profiles Low adopter Moderate adopter High adopter

18 The Users Professor Sabowski, Anthropologist Nearing tenure Captures video and audio of interviews, stores on central video server Has raw survey results and other self-created data sets stores in departmental server Uses institutional data sets, stored in central library repositories Wants to centralize management of all these research materials Needs to share data with peers Wants to share some data in graduate seminar she teaches

19 The Users Lisa Jones, Undergraduate Student Liberal arts student, Junior High use of facebook and flicker in personal life In a study abroad program that she is required to maintain a blog of her experience Needs to access media and readings through Blackboard, Library reserves and databases and in her program’s departmental server from Europe Must use various media (e.g., photos of travels, reference to articles, etc.) in course assignments and post to course site

20 The Model

21 The Model

23 The Model Wireframe Categories Site List Editor References Tool Content Pages Sidebar Editor

References Content Pages UI Improvements

References Helper Search your references Add a new reference –Tagged with course id See the tag cloud See references tagged for your course id See recently added references

We are not alone in the Universe Resources Working Group Resources Viewer Citations Helper – Citations Lists rWiki

We are not alone in the Universe Zonecore aka Open Syllabus Sakaibrary: prototype Research Guide authoring tool CARET File Manager Michael’s Content Authoring initiative Ian Boston and Nico: Page Composer Josh Ryan’s “thing” More?

Questions? Thoughts? Recommendations? Fears?