MIPS: Migration, Implementation, and Pedagogical Strategies
Session 023
Maggie McVay Lynch
Wednesday
4:00 pm-5:00 pm
Room: SalonA-B
Session Abstract
Details PSU's Fall pilot for implementing Sakai and Melete, including specifics about how to migrate courses from WebCT, use of a digital repository to serve module content, and plans to move from pilot to implementation with over 2,500 courses serving 22,000 students in the next 6-8 months
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*Overview of Presentation:
Portland State University piloted Sakai 2.0 with Melete and Samigo integration during Fall term 2005 with twelve courses and 500 students. The session described PSU's pilot process from course selection to implementation and lessons learned, as well as the plan to migrate over 2,500 courses and 22,000 students from WebCT to Sakai in the next six to eight months. Topics include:
- Course selection based on use cases for complexity, faculty technology abilities, and class sizes.
- How to migrate courses from WebCT to Sakai using the Hive digital repository as the primary content server.
- Pedagogical approach used and implemented with Melete course builder and learning objects/content served from a digital respository.
- Migration of Tests/Quizzes from WebCT via IMS QTI and use of the Respondus tool for the future.
- Faculty and Staff training and support
- Student preparation and support
- Lessons learned which impact production implementation in Winter and Spring
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UCLA's Humanities Division is using WebCT CE 4.1 and is seriously considering a move to Sakai. Your experience at PSU is inspirational (and brave!). The feedback you get from your users is different from our pilot users, at least thus far (specifically, instructors are not seeing Sakai as a clearly better product, at least not until it's more "finished", and students are calling us for support A LOT).
As the person at UCLA's Center for Digital Humanities who oversees the current WebCT installation, and will have to do the analysis to decide if/when to move to Sakai, I will certainly contact you with questions/advice.
We will begin this evaluation in February. Do you have any planning documents or list(s) of criteria you used in helping you make the decision to move to Sakai? Would you be willing to share them?
Thanks for a great presentation, and for offering to be available to help.