Sakai eScience/eResearch Austin Sakai Conference December 8, 2005 Joseph Hardin Stephanie Teasley Chuck Severance KYOU / sakai Boundary, Situation

2 Genesis of Sakai – Through Michigan Eyes In the beginning… there were two activities – Teaching & Research - “what faculty do” Online tools should support both But initial work was bifurcated 1) Work in building and analyzing Research Collaboratories – the online support of research and research teams 2) Work in building/analyzing Course Management Systems – online teaching support

3 Over 42,000 users at the end of 2003, retired Fall 2005 CourseTools

4 WorkTools Over 9000 users (2000 active) at the end of Migrated to Sakai Spring 2005.

5 Sakai Concepts It is both research and teaching - it is all “collaboration” - many tools in common –Teaching: Courses, tools, drop-boxes –Research: Putting the user interface on the Grid and Virtual Organizations Teaching and Learning Collaborative Research Collaboration and Learning Environment

6 So, Let’s Build a Single System Build a framework that can be easily added to – modular From the beginning – make it both 1)a powerful research support environment 2)A competitive learning management system We need a unified theory, and practice

7 A 15-Year UM SPARC Science of Collaboratories Sakai Worktools (Notes Based) Coursetools (Notes Based) CTools CHEF OGCE Grid Portal NEESGrid CTNG

8 SPARC 2/ users 800 data sources

9 Digital libraries & documents groups-to- information groups-to- facilities people-to-people Communication, Collaboration Services Distributed, media-rich information technology Remote instruments Science of Collaboratories NSF Funded ITR

10 1. The collaboratory movement UARC operational SPARC operational NEESgrid development NEESgrid operational

11 Teaching and Learning Collaborative Research Collaboration and Learning Environment CourseTools WorkTools CHEF CHEF= CompreHensive collaborativE Framework This was the first run at the integration problem at UM

12 But others were thinking like us Home grown CourseTools-like systems were reaching end of life at IndianaU, UMichigan, MIT, Stanford Standards and interoperability were hot topics The open source model was emerging as viable in the application space (or we could make it so) Resources could be mobilized

13 CourseTools WorkTools CHEF So, CHEF -> Sakai CHEF Sakai The Research and Teaching Tool Project developed legs – built a community

14 The Sakai Project “The University of Michigan, Indiana University, MIT, Stanford, the uPortal Consortium, and the Open Knowledge Initiative (OKI) are joining forces to integrate and synchronize their considerable software into a pre-integrated collection of open source tools.” (January, 2004) Sakai Project receives $2.4 million grant from Mellon Foundation; support from Hewlett Foundation

15 Why: All the simple reasons These are core infrastructures at our Universities Economic advantages to core schools, partners Higher ed values – open, sharing, building the commons – core support for collaboration tech We should be good at this – teaching, research are our core competencies Maintains institutional capacity, independence Ability to rapidly innovate – move our tools within/among HE institutions rapidly Based on goals of interoperability - Desire to harvest research advances and faculty innovation in teaching quickly

16 Online Collaboration and Learning Environments are Key Tools for our Faculty and Students Now Rapid, continuing growth in adoption and use. Just keeps growing.

17 So, What is Sakai? Sakai is a project – an initial grant for two years Sakai is an extensible framework - provides basic capabilities to support a wide range of tools and services – teaching and research Sakai is a set of tools - written and supported by various groups and individuals Sakai is a product - a released bundle of the framework and a set of tools which have been tested and released as a unit Sakai is a community – an emerging group of people and resources supporting the code and each other, realizing large scale Open Source efficiencies in Higher Ed

18 Supporting the Class Sakai as Course Management System (CMS)

19 Supporting the Lab Sakai as collaboratories - support for online research teams

20 Ctools – List of Worksites – Classes, Projects Both students and faculty can set up projects. In fact, we are seeing the rate of project creation surpass that of class creation. People like to work/learn together.

21 Bringing the lab to the classroom Bringing the lab to the classroom

22 Open Grid Computing Environment Example: Submitting a job to the GRID. Note research computing tools added on left.

23 Research Support - Inside Sakai, across the GRID

24 NEESGrid - The Equipment Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation NSF Funded. CHEF-Based Research Collaboration. NCSA, ANL, USC/ISI, UM, USC, Berkeley, MSU

25 Bringing the lab to the classroom Bringing the lab to the classroom

26 CHEF-Based NEESGrid Software

27 NEESgrid interface

28 NEESgird interface

29 NEESgrid interface

30 NEESgrid: Data viewer

31 NEESgrid: LabNotebook

32 NEESgrid: Simulation

33 Remember, Sakai Concepts It is both research and teaching - it is all “collaboration” - many tools in common –Teaching: Courses, tools, drop-boxes –Research: Building user interface and services on the Grid and Virtual Organizations Teaching and Learning Collaborative Research Collaboration and Learning Environment

34 Placing the Sakai Product A Collaboration and Learning Environment Collaboration (including eResearch) Teaching and Learning

35 Teaching and Research Collaboration Requirements Overlap Physics Research Collaboration Earthquake Research Collaboration Teaching and Learning Grid Computing Visualization Data Repository Large Data Libraries Quizzes Grading Tools Syllabus SCORM Chat Discussion Resources

Sakai 2.1 Tools Presentation Profile / Roster Resources TwinPeaks - Repository Search Samigo - QTI Assessment Schedule Section Management Syllabus Web Content Worksite Setup WebDAV Announcements Assignments Chat Room Threaded Discussion Drop Box Archive Gradebook Melete - Content Editor Message Of The Day News/RSS Preferences

37 Sakai General Collaborative Tools Announcements Assignments Chat Room Threaded Discussion Drop Box Archive Message Of The Day News/RSS Preferences Resources Schedule Web Content Worksite Setup WebDAV

38 Additional General Collaboration Tools Under Development Wiki based on Radeox Blog Shared Display Shared Whiteboard Multicast Audio Multicast Video These are works-in-progress by members of the Sakai eResearch community. There are no dates for release.

39 OK Stephanie Chuck