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Open Syllabus in Sakai 2.6 : up and running Jacques Raynauld – faculty HEC Montréal June 15 2010
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Open Syllabus in Sakai 2.6 : up and running
Jacques Raynauld – facultyHEC MontréalJune 15 2010
Objectives of the session
• Overview of a new syllabus authoring tool to organize all your Sakai resources and tools
• Convince you of the importance of using some kind of structure or semantic approach for Sakai course websites
• Faculty? Teaching Support? IT? Deans? Students?
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Outline
• HEC Montréal and the origins of the project• Syllabi and Sakai• Open Syllabus structure and architecture• Quick demo of the tool• Summary, roadmap and questions
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HEC Montréal and the origin of the project
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• Large business school • Part of the University of
Montreal campus• 12 000 students• 250 career professors• 500 adjuncts• 4 000 full time undergraduate students• Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise Campus
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Origins of the project
• Learning material disseminated in various course web sites …
• Very confusing for the staff, the students and the public …
• Development of an in-house easy-to-use Web platform to build a centralized electronic syllabi web depot
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http://zonecours.hec.ca
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http://zonecours.hec.ca
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• One location• Public and student access• Common interface• 95% of the course websites are up and
running in Zone Cours
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Origins of the project
• Good tool …. but unable to share the code for technical reasons
• Spring 2007 : consensus to rewrite the program with a open source vision (Sakai)
• CRIM and the University of Montreal joined the team and brought their expertise and their experience (use cases)
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Origins of the project
• Presentation of the beta version at the Boston meetings
• HEC pilot in the 2010 Winter term. Large roll-out in the Fall.
• University of Montréal pilot in the Summer and Fall terms.
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Syllabi and Sakai
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Syllabi and Sakai
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1. Contact information2. Objectives3. Requirements (evaluation)4. Grading5. College policies6. Schedule of readings, due
date
PDF - paper• Documents to download
(pdf, ppt, doc, etc.)• Citations• Hyperlinks• Assignments• Quizzes• Discussion Boards• Etc.
Ressources - web
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Syllabi and Sakai
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1. Contact information2. Objectives3. Requirements (evaluation)4. Grading5. College policies6. Schedule of readings, due
date
PDF - paper
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Actual Syllabus tool in Sakai
Post a doc or PDF fileUse an editorNo semantic
Syllabi and Sakai
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• Documents to download (pdf, ppt, doc, etc.)
• Citations• Hyperlinks
• Assignments• Discussion Boards• Etc.
Ressources - web
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Stanford U. , Coursework User Guide
Syllabi and Sakai
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Sakai Courseware Management - The Official Guide, p. 170.
Syllabi and Sakai
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Faculty Showcase: Amanda Cecil, Using Oncourse CL to choreograph teachable moments in online courses, Indiana University, On Course
Open Syllabus Architecture
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Open Syllabus Architecture
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Open Syllabus Architecture
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Gerbé and Raynauld, An Open Syllabus Model, Ed-Media 2009, Honolulu.11th Sakai Conference - June 15-17, 2010
Open Syllabus Architecture
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Open Syllabus Architecture
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Sakaï ServerOpen Syllabus Server Open Syllabus Client –
Google Web Tool kit
Exchange of XML files between Open syllabus server and client
Sakai Tools - Services
Open Syllabus public gateHTML site created from the XML file
Citation Z39.50 Connector:
MetaSearchEngine
(SirsiSingleSearch,
Web2Bridge …)
Z35.50 Connector
HTTP
Or
Z39.50
Z39.50
Library of Congress
Etc. …
Z39.50
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Linking to Library Resources: Workarounds and Z39.50 Connectors in Sakai
Mame Awa Diop
Z39.50 Connector
• Allows access to computer databases accessible trough the Z39.50 client server-protocol such as library catalogue.
• Allows a faster integration of the citation helper tool
Z39.50 Repository OSIDImplementation
Integrated Library System
Z39.50 communications
protocolOSID RETURN
OSID CALL
Links to library resources
• Creates a link to the institution’s library catalogue.
• Allows students easier and faster access to library resources.
SFX - OpenUrl
Library catalogBooks and others
Articles
Quick demo of the toolhttp://vimeo.com/12495226
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Demo1. Description of the editing page – buttons – tree
panel (news, list of the lectures) and Sakai tools. View all. The structure and the wordings can be taylored to each university needs.
2. Adding a description in the Presentation section3. Adding a contact4. Adding a textbook citation to Course Material5. Adding a Forum to Course Material
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Demo
6. Seeing the content of lecture 2 (objective, citation, file, url, exercice)
7. Adding a lecture : The price mechanism8. Adding the objectives9. Adding an article – public – mandatory10. Adding a document – private – recommended11. Adding a quiz – rubric exercice – private –
complementary12. Moving a quiz to lecture 1
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Demo
13. Discussing the evaluation section – very important for program design – the most semantic
14. Editing an evaluation (evaluation type, adding electronic submission,etc.)
15. Adding an evaluation criteria16. Adding an electronic submission (assignment)
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Demo
17. Adding a cluster18. Moving a lecture19. Adding another cluster20. Preview21. Publish22. OsylManager (Briefly)
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Summary, road map and questions
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10 good reasons for Open Syllabus
1. Student request : What should I do? Where is it?
2. Faculty requests : keep it simple (training)!
3. Easy to modify the templates and keeping their semantic (lectures, themes, modules, etc.)
4. Peak-load solution (GWT client)
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10 good reasons for Open Syllabus
5. Archive/Share/Import/Export : Lectures/Modules within your universityAcross the Sakai communityEasy migration for us
6. Public gate for the community, future students, parents, etc.
7. Cutting work : PDF printing for students8. Reporting : assessment methods,
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10 good reasons for structured syllabi
9. Dynamic links to your library catalog (Z39.50).
10. Easy to launch a small pilot
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Road-map and questions
• Available now for Sakai 2.6• Migration to Sakai 2.7 coming• Sakai 3.0 is natural step since OpenSyllabus
has REST architecture and could be transformed in a Open Social Gadget
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Road-map and questions
• Tech Demo Wednesday• http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/
OSYL/OpenSyllabus+Home• Video : http://vimeo.com/12495226• Test server : http://osyltest.hec.ca• [email protected]
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