The NGDLE (www.ngdle.org) has been proposed as a “learning ecosystem” where everything fits together beautifully like Lego blocks. There will be lots of learning management systems and thousands of easily installed applications. And we will have electric cars that never need recharging and use anti-gravity for a very smooth ride!

But seriously, how will we ever get there and how can we insure that open source leads the way to this bold new future. What is the grand plan and what are the first steps? Do we have a better understanding about how open source plays in the market? How to we insure sustainability of open source efforts from the beginning? Have we learned any lessons from the past decade of building world-class open source applications – and how can that experience reduce the number of mistakes and mis-steps as we go forward.

This BOF proposal has been submitted to the Open Apereo 2016 conference in New York City on the 24th and 25th May 2016.

This presentation will introduce attendees to the Tsugi project. Tsugi intended to be the world’s first open source implementation of the Next Generation Digital Learning Environment (www.ngdle.org) as proposed by Malcolm Brown and others. Tsugi is a set of libraries and frameworks that enable the rapid development of scalable learning applications that can be placed in an interoperable application store. These tools are not limited to use in Sakai but can be used in any LMS that supports IMS LTI 1.1, LTI 2.1, or Content Item. There are Tsugi libraries under development for PHP, Java, and Node.js.

This presentation proposal has been submitted to the Open Apereo 2016 conference in New York City on the 24th and 25th May 2016.

This will be a report from an independent study course at the University of Michigan School of Information which set out to introduce a student programmer to developing and contributing to in Sakai. We will look at the barriers that needed to be overcame, what we learned along the way, and what was accomplished.

This presentation proposal has been submitted to the Open Apereo 2016 conference in New York City on the 24th and 25th May 2016.

This workshop will introduce attendees to the Tsugi learning application framework. With Tsugi you can easily develop rich and powerful tools that plug in seamlessly to any LMS. Tsugi implements the IMS standards and provides easy-to-use APIs to allow developers to focus on building new and interesting tools. Tsugi tools support IMS Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) 1.1, LTI 2.0, IMS ContentItem and IMS Community App Sharing Architecture (CASA) and can be served as part of an interoperable learning Tool App store. As new standards are approved such as those for analytics, Tsugi will support those standards as well.

This workshop proposal was presented at the Open Apereo 2016 conference in New York City on the 24th and 25th May 2016.