A continuation of a discussion started at the JA-SIG Unconference between both uPortal community members and some FLUID representatives - this BOF is intended to gather interested parties in integrating portals and LMS's (particularly Sakai 
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The scope of the BOF is intended continue work:
- summarize current work in the space
- defining the needs and audiences for integration
- determining general cases for integration
- looking at specific opportunities or techniques for integration
- collecting interested individuals for building hooks on both ends, possibly as part of a larger HigherEducation portlet initiative.
This session might also be interesting for people interested in integration with Facebook, OpenSocial, micro-formats, RSS, or other scenarios.
Interested Parties
Name |
Interests |
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what ~jayshao said, plus specific interest in getting communal value from (or deciding on more valuable alternatives to) Unicon's investment in MyCourses portlet, enjoying Fluid's efforts to get back to a principled look at portal-LMS integration needs and user experience considerations |
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~jayshao (Rutgers) |
uPortal-Sakai as a reference implementation for integrating portals/LMSs, open-source portlet stacks |
Robert Sherratt (Hull) |
Sakai dashboards and general integration issues between Sakai and uPortal |
Cheryl Johns (Yale University) |
Possible integration of a portlet to give a user a launching point to any of their course tabs (problematic once a user has more than 5 tabs) |