Notes from Beyond 2.6 Session

Content Authoring and Page Composition {John N, Mark N, Ian, Robert, Jim}
- Instructors who want to provide their own structure to their site
- Some elements of Melete, OpenSyllabus
- Access to content/permissions are an important piece
- Scaffolding, structuring of content
LAMS Integration and Support [UCT]
- Instantiate Sakai tool in a LAMS workflow
- Push/pull data between LAMS/Sakai
Activity Sequencing
Workflows
- Learning Workflows
- Collaboration workflows
- workflows around academic settings, (e.g., assessment domain)
Hierarchy and Groups {Steven G., Oliver, Megan, Michael F, Raul, Daphne, Leon}
- Support for group work (e.g., assignments, project teams)
  - Sub-site capabilities in Sakai 2.5 maybe close?
- Non-site specific ad-hoc groups
- Creating and managing strategies (e.g., site info, section info)
UX / UI
- Nathan's work - focusing on design fundamentals
- MyCamTools
- UCD/GT new tool UI's (e.g., Assignments2, Gradebook)
- FLUID component integration
  - Where do current ones fit in? (Sakai gets well-tested and designed components)
  - What does Sakai need in the future?
- "Facebook"
  - User interface look-and-feel
  - user experience capabilities (e.g., easy to setup a group and attract people to it)
- Site admin tools (i.e., Site Info, Worksite Setup) {Kevin}
  - Helper tools [UCD, UCB interested]
  - Exposing current capabilities in new way; UI refactoring
- Accessibility
- Mobile Device Support
  - Tool experience needs to degrade gracefully
  - Different types of mobile devices - different feature sets/capabilities
Re-conceptualizing Sakai
- Now forms-and-tables; future page creation and editing
- Think about things Google won't do (e.g., Assignments, Assessments, Gradebook)
Best-of-breed Forums Capability [UCT] {Lydia}
- Plug-in thread to other tools' contexts
- Design focused on Teaching and Learning context
- Teaching-oriented features in threaded discussion (e.g., data-mining as factor in evaluation/assessment)
Student View
- Organize View around Student activity across contexts (across tools, across courses); focus on what students are doing [UCT]
- Integrated view; one-place To Do List
Use and leverage external services and tools (e.g., Google)
- Don't necessarily want to be dependent on
Very-large scale
- Excess of millions of users; 10k's simultaneous users
Analytics Data-mining
- Integration with external systems
- Tracking student activity to predict
- Usage data to inform training and documentation
- Faculty-driven queries across sites to track student activity
- Datawarehouse
- Encourage better event tracking throughout tools and services
Social Networking Features
- Awareness of academic context
- Referral systems
- Use cases: academic advising - facilitate out-of-band contact
Tagging
- Structured and unstructured
- Identify competencies
Event Sign-Up Tool
- Yale almost ready for Contrib
Internationalization
- Translation of content based on user-preference; on-the-fly translation
Integration of and with external tools and services
- Messaging and Calendaring
- CalDAV integration
- Zimbra Integration
Improved notification and event model
- XMPP
- RSS, Atom (RSS-Everywhere)
Better support for standards
- QTI 2.1
- Tool Interoperability
- LIS (Learning Information Services)
Off-Line Sakai
Curriculum mapping
- Multi-year, multi-courses
- Focus on program, rather than courses
- Programmatic views
- Learning Unit Management
  - Kauli dabbling in this area; overlap? Integrate?
Open Educational Resources
- OCW
Structured activities that are not typically bound; extend beyond course, program, organization boundaries
User owned Content
- Free user content from organization structure
Identify separation of academic and non-academic design