1. Sakai: A Higher Education Initiative Jim Farmer at the Aviation Industry CBT Committee Meeting 2 February 2004, Phoenix, Arizona USA

2. Sakai Education Partners Program The SAKAI Project “The University of Michigan, Indiana University, MIT, Stanford, and the uPortal consortium are joining forces to integrate and synchronize their considerable educational software into a pre-integrated collection of open source tools.” The Sakai Project, A proposal to the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, 2 December 2003

3. Sakai Education Partners Program The broader goal “Integrating these disparate efforts will also merge their associated communities of use and practice towards a critical mass to have a real economic and innovation effect for educational institutions.”

4. Sakai Education Partners Program Sakai is A concept An architecture A four-university development effort An emerging community Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the four universities

5. Sakai Education Partners Program The Sakai concept “Sharing” Interoperability Open standards and “Best practices”

6. Sakai Education Partners Program The Sakai architecture Services-based architecture JSR 168 portlet (and, implicitly, WSRP remote portlet) Open Knowledge Initiative Service Interface Definitions (OSID) XML, XSLT, SOAP, SAML and others as the project progresses

7. Sakai Education Partners Program Tool Portability Profile The Open Knowledge Initiative’s (OKI) OSIDs OKI Service Interface Definitions User interface abstraction for localization The JSR-168 portlet specification Based on Michigan’s CHEF and JA- SIG’s uPortal

8. Sakai Education Partners Program SAKAI project products Enterprise Services-based Portal, Complete Course Management System with sophisticated assessment tools, Research Support Collaboration System, Workflow Engine, Tool Portability Profile, i.e., clear standard for writing future tools that can extend this core set of educational applications. “Pre-integrated work products” The Sakai Project, A proposal to the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, 2 December 2003

9. Sakai Education Partners Program SAKAI product availability BasisProduction Version Navigo Assessment Summer 2004 IMS QTI, OKI OSID Eden Workflow Spring 2004 OKI OSID WorkTools Summer 2005 OKI OSID CourseWork CMS Summer 2005 OKI OSID

10. The Sakai Education Partners Program Funded by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and the partners

11. Sakai Education Partners Program Sakai organization Sakai ProjectSakai Partners Sakai Board Joseph Hardin, Chair, University of Michigan Bradley C. Wheeler, Indiana University Amitava ‘Babi’ Mitra, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lois Brooks, Stanford University Carl Jacobson, University of Delaware Jeff Merriman, Open Knowledge Initiative Architecture Glenn Golden Requirements Rob Lowden SEPP Jim Farmer

12. Sakai Education Partners Program Sakai Education Partners Participate in the community discussion on future direction Deploy Sakai-based software Develop Sakai-based software, refactor current software using the Tool Portability Profile, or publish Sakai-based content Implement the Sakai architecture Based on expressed interests of the community

13. Sakai Education Partners Program Partnership benefits Sakai Education Partners Program is targeted at administrators [for planning], adopters who will need support, and developers who will want to contribute tools and services to the [higher education community]. Partners will receive early, non-public access to information on the Sakai Project, including strategic directions, technical design and the initial tool sets for the 2004 summer release; early code releases of the Sakai framework, portal, services and tools; and an invitation to the semi-annual SEPP meetings.

14. Sakai Education Partners Program SEPP meetings The initial SEPP meetings are planned for June and September of 2004. The semi-annual SEPP meetings will have a technical track for training software developers and implementers and an administrative track for Sakai strategy and user support. Partners may send two developers to each meeting for formal training in the Sakai Tool Portability Profile by the lead technical staff of the Sakai Project.

15. Sakai Education Partners Program SEPP support Developers to provide technical support for partners and liaison with the Sakai Core development team, Support tools of immediate and specific interest to partners, such as a shared knowledgebase, Technical documentation and specifications, Administrative Support person to aid SEPP staff members and partners.

16. Sakai Education Partners Program Sakai Partners Educational institutions Contribute US$10,000 per year for three years Participate in Sakai activities

17. The end jim farmer jxf@immagic.com +1-202-296-2807

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