Sakai for educational knowledge sharing

Speaker(s): Olga Trusova

Date: Wednesday 2:20 pm - 3:00 pm
Room: INTL 3

Session Abstract

Sakai implementation at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching resulted in an on-line collaborative environment that in conjunction with other open source tools has enabled faculty members from various universities and colleges to document and share teaching inquiries, so that they can collectively explore, improve, and build teaching knowledge as a community of practice.

Additional Information

Since 1999 the Carnegie Foundation has been supporting efforts to facilitate and exchange an on-going work with teaching and learning inquiries and educational transformation efforts by taking advantage of open source technologies. One of such programs, the Carnegie Academy for Scholarship of Teaching and Learning has over 200 faculty members around the country use Sakai workspace to share and represent efforts in improving teaching practice. This workspace has served as means for the Foundation to help effectively exchange ideas, reflections, resources by building a "living" archive and sustaining this work of over 7 years. More recently, the Sakai workspace developed into an online community environment with the primary meeting places, resources repositories, and information portals for various Carnegie programs as well. Using Sakai CLE as a cross-institutional collaboration platform for knowledge exchange and dissemination can provide many more faculty and students with such distributed knowledge network.

Presentation Materials

Relevant links:

The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (http://www.carnegiefoundation.org)
The Knowledge Media Laboratory of the Carnegie Foundation (http://www.carnegiefoundation.org/KML)
Knowledge Exchange Exhibition Presentation (KEEP) Toolkit (http://www.cfkeep.org)
The Gallery of Teaching and Learning (http://gallery.carnegiefoundation.org)