Sakai in The Netherlands

Introduction

The Sakai Special Interest Group within The Netherlands (which we called Sakai SIG NL) is up and running since August 2006.The University of Amsterdam and the University of Twente have started a weblog on developments in The Netherlands regarding Sakai. Please point your browser to http://sakai-nl.blogspot.com if you are interested in the latest and the greatest from The Netherlands. There is also a website that you can visit (only Dutch content) at http://www.sakai.nl.

Institutions and commercial affiliates

We will be trying to keep our information up-to-date, by providing child pages per institution. Current status for using Sakai within The Netherlands (in no particular order), mainly restricted to Higher Ed institutions:

Name	Status	Remarks
Open University The Netherlands	Interested	In the process of evaluating the future of their VLE. Currently deploying Blackboard.
Erasmus University Rotterdam	Interested	Currently deploying Blackboard.
Free University of Amsterdam	Interested	In the process of evaluating the future of their VLE. Currently deploying Blackboard. Considering MS SharePoint, Blackboard and maybe Sakai.
Hogeschool Leiden	Interested	Mainly interested in OSP. Currently using Blackboard (including Content System).
Saxion Hogescholen	Interested	Starting a pilot in Fall 2007
Leidse Onderwijsinstellingen	Production	Distant learning company. Using Sakai/OSP since Feb. 2007
Portfolio4U	Production	An Amsterdam based elearning company, implemented OSP on quite a few schools in the Netherlands. Commercial affiliate.
Stoas		Elearning provider and consultant. Commercial affiliate.
University of Amsterdam	Production	Two production systems: A portfolio system: http://portfolio.uva.nl\\\\ UvA communites: http://www.communities.uva.nl/\\\\ (in cooperation with Edia
University of Twente	Interested	Not interested anymore. Decision made in June 2008: the University of Twente will be deploying Blackboard as of Summer 2009.
Utrecht University	Interested	Currently using two systems (Blackboard and WebCT), and need to go to one system. Decision has been made to go to Blackboard (June 2008).
A New Spring	Production	E-learning company specialized in creating custom tools for Sakai and hosting and implementing Sakai.
Hotelschool Den Haag	Pilot	Works with Stoas on implementing Sakai.
Edia education technology	Production	Edia is an IT-company specialized in the development and implementation of educational software. Developers of numerous sakaitools: demo environment: http://sakaitools.edia.nl/portal\\

Tidbits

Information about the Dutch translation of Sakai can be found here: Dutch Translation