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The Sakai community is at its core a collaboration of higher education institutions, but it also includes commercial affiliates and encourages their contribution. The central mechanism that facilitates this broad collaboration is a liberal, commercial-friendly open source license.
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An Open Source License
Sakai Partner Organizations
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Much of the Sakai community revolves around the development of a software product, but coding software represents only a fraction of community activity cannot be reduced to software development.
The Sakai Product
- Sakai is an enterprise-friendly, service-oriented platform that enables web-based support for various user groups in educational institutions.
- Sakai implements open standards wherever possible and releases open source software with a liberal, commercial-friendly license. It supports open courseware and open educational resources.
- There is a strong Teaching and Learning community within Sakai that seeks to ensure sector-leading CMS/LMS/VLE features are available on the platform.
- Distance Learning is specifically supported
- Face-to-Face teaching is specifically supported
- Portfolio use cases are specifically supported
- There is a strong Research community within Sakai that seeks to ensure sector-leading VRE features are available on the platform. This includes inter-institutional research collaboration features
- There is also a strong community with interest in Content Management and Collaboration features for other education-related activities, such as Clubs, Societies and Administrative groups.
- Not all campuses will necessarily deploy all features, nevertheless:
- There is a desire for both a consistent user experience throughout the range of features and an open platform that allows ready integration of best of breed 3rd party applications. We recognize that this creates a challenging dilemma for user experience.
- There is a desire to create solutions with market-leading accessibility and usability
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