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The University of Delaware's 2009 Winter Faculty Institute--"The Ecosystem of Learning at the University of Delaware"--will be held Tuesday, Jan. 6, in the Rodney Room of the Perkins Student Center.

Fall 2008 is the first semester UD has offered Sakai to all faculty teaching credit courses. "We had set goals of about 120 faculty using approximately 180 Sakai courses during fall 2008," said Janet de Vry, IT-User Services. "Faculty use has exploded past those targets."

"Basics of Sakai @ UD" won an Award of Excellence in the Printed Instructional Classroom Materials category in the annual Communications Awards competition sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on University and College Computing Services' (ACM SIGUCCS).

The official announcement... w00t!

The University of Delaware has released the Sakai learning management system (LMS) to UD faculty.

Lester Ray, a development executive with Apple, hosted the afternoon session of UD's Summer Faculty Institute, during which he addressed the frequent divide between technologically savvy college students and traditional lecture hall teaching practices.