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As you may have heard, a number of contributors in the Sakai community have begun talking about, and even working on, something being called Sakai 3. Sakai 3 would be a new version of Sakai representing significant change to the end-user experience and, likely, the underlying technology.

This blog post is somewhat a summary of my understanding of what Sakai 3 is all about, from a user point of view. I hope it can become a starting point for current community members who might still see Sakai 3 as a blurry long term vision, and maybe even draw more people's attention to Sakai as a valid alternative to commercial learning management systems like Blackboard.

Beyond Sakai 2.6, a vision of the future of the Sakai LMS. Slides presented to the LMS Committee at the University of Delaware. January 21, 2009.

Rodríguez congratulated committee members on playing an instrumental role in the successful selection, promotion, and implementation of Sakai as the replacement for WebCT at the University of Delaware.

University of Delaware Information Technologies has announced that faculty and staff can now create "project" sites on Sakai@UD -- the UD-supported learning management system.

An example of a course made open by default in Sakai.

SI 182 is an introductory programming course designed to be useful to a wide range of students in all concentrations. Built as a web site that uses Sakai as a repository.

My wiki project web page. Focuses a lot on the wiki tool in Sakai.

Here is a stripped-down version of the workshop notes that I give to faculty at my institution. You are invited to adapt them to your own purposes, and to use the same links to courses on WyoSakai, or to follow the paradigm to set up your own.

A Stanford site to share faculty practices.

Join us in this stimulating online program designed to bring teachers together to learn from each other, evaluate best teaching practices, and search for solutions to the unique challenges of the online environment. The engaging dialogue on teaching is the highlight of CTI.

Texas State faculty that are TRACS users provide lessons learned and tips for you. They also share their innovative ways of using the system. Their ideas can save you time and effort, and offer new tools to strengthen your teaching.

The rSmart Group, Inc. (rSmart) today announced they have been selected by Rhode Island Network for Educational Technology, Inc. (RINET) and its consortium membership made up of RI's K-12 schools and districts to implement and support the statewide initiative to make ePortfolios available to all K-12 students by 2008. RINET will support the rSmart OSP ePortfolio(TM) to improve RI districts' ability to monitor and measure student performance and progress while allowing individual students to demonstrate skills, knowledge and abilities.

The Open Source Portfolio (OSP) software for eportfolio learning and assessment has seen widespread adoption over the last five years. This article surveys the current state of OSP development and use and shares results of research on its effectiveness, conducted through the Inter/National Coalition for Electronic Portfolio Research.

He saw this as summing up the challenge faced by university of which the traditional model has been ownership and sharing stuff only with specific people at specific times. He would argue, on the other hand, that "Free is a hard price to beat".