This workshop will discuss how to teach with Sakai. The workshop will cover using Sakai at Michigan (Ctools) to enhance a classroom-based course. The workshop will also show the use of ETudes and show how Sakai can be used in a distance education context. In addition, an invitation to the community will be sent out to invite other presenters. Also time will be set aside for the attendees to show their use of Sakai during the presentation.

This workshop will discuss how to teach with Sakai. The workshop will cover using Sakai at Michigan (Ctools) to enhance a classroom-based course. The workshop will also show the use of ETudes and show how Sakai can be used in a distance education context. In addition, an invitation to the community will be sent out to invite other presenters. Also time will be set aside for the attendees to show their use of Sakai during the presentation.

Dr. Severance is a Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan School of Information (www.dr-chuck.com). He is the former Executive director of the Sakai Foundation and the former Chief Architect of the Sakai Project. He now teaches using Sakai at the University of Michigan.
This was submitted to the Sakai Paris Conference – July 2008

Virtual Learning Environments need to adopt approaches like Facebook, iGoogle and YouTube for learning application integration. IMS Learning Tools Interoperability 2.0 is a standard under development which addresses this functionality mash-up use case.
Virtual Learning Environments need to adopt approaches like Facebook, iGoogle and YouTube for learning application integration. IMS Learning Tools Interoperability 2.0 is a standard under development which addresses this functionality mash-up use case.
The current crop of Learning Management Systems are focused very much on meeting the needs of the institution in providing a basic, uniform technology platform for teaching and learning. However, faculty and students are often familiar with setting up accounts, joining various types of sites and adding themselves and friends to those sites, and figuring out new systems by trial and error. The next generation of Virtual Learning Environments needs to allow this type of organic “mash-up” and make it simple enough to place in the hands of the end users of these systems. IMS Learning Tools Interoperability 2.0 is a standard under development which addresses this functionality mash-up use case. This presentation will talk about issues and approaches for building the next generation of Virtual Learning Environments.
Charles is a the IMS Global Learning Consortium Developer Network Coordinator. He is also a Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan School of Information. (http://www.imsglobal.org/severance.html)
Submitted – Sakai Paris Conference – July 2008

Just for Yucks – here is my faculty annual report.

Last year I put up my self-assessment here: http://www.dr-chuck.com/csev-blog/000330.html

Some of the bits have been removed or starred out.

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