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Today we officially launched PIVOTE as an open source project. PIVOTE is an outcome of the JISC funded PREVIEW project we've been involved with looking at learning in virtual worlds. PIVOTE allows you to author a learning exercise on the web, and then play it on the web, in a virtual world (or worlds), and even on your phone.

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.

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.

Open teaching is described as the facilitation of learning experiences that are open, transparent, collaborative, and social. Open teachers are advocates of a free and open knowledge society, and support their students in the critical consumption, production, connection, and synthesis of knowledge through the shared development of learning networks.

Through a set of tools users can annotate, modify, and shift the content of a page. Shifts can be shared and can be mapped into Trails (contextual information maps).