MIPS - Migration, Implementation, and Pedagogical Strategies -- 023

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MIPS: Migration, Implementation, and Pedagogical Strategies

Session 023

Maggie McVay Lynch

Wednesday
4:00 pm-5:00 pm
Room: SalonA-B

Session Abstract

Details PSU's Fall pilot for implementing Sakai and Melete, including specifics about how to migrate courses from WebCT, use of a digital repository to serve module content, and plans to move from pilot to implementation with over 2,500 courses serving 22,000 students in the next 6-8 months

Presentation Materials

  Name Size Creator (Last Modifier) Creation Date Last Mod Date Comment  
Microsoft Powerpoint MIPS.ppt 391 kB Maggie Lynch Dec 08, 2005 Dec 08, 2005 Here is the PowerPoint Presentation I used During the Session

Additional Information

*Overview of Presentation:

Portland State University piloted Sakai 2.0 with Melete and Samigo integration during Fall term 2005 with twelve courses and 500 students. The session described PSU's pilot process from course selection to implementation and lessons learned, as well as the plan to migrate over 2,500 courses and 22,000 students from WebCT to Sakai in the next six to eight months. Topics include:

  • Course selection based on use cases for complexity, faculty technology abilities, and class sizes.
  • How to migrate courses from WebCT to Sakai using the Hive digital repository as the primary content server.
  • Pedagogical approach used and implemented with Melete course builder and learning objects/content served from a digital respository.
  • Migration of Tests/Quizzes from WebCT via IMS QTI and use of the Respondus tool for the future.
  • Faculty and Staff training and support
  • Student preparation and support
  • Lessons learned which impact production implementation in Winter and Spring
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Comments (3)

 

  1. Dec 08, 2005

    Annelie Chapman says:

    UCLA's Humanities Division is using WebCT CE 4.1 and is seriously considering a ...

    UCLA's Humanities Division is using WebCT CE 4.1 and is seriously considering a move to Sakai. Your experience at PSU is inspirational (and brave!). The feedback you get from your users is different from our pilot users, at least thus far (specifically, instructors are not seeing Sakai as a clearly better product, at least not until it's more "finished", and students are calling us for support A LOT).

    As the person at UCLA's Center for Digital Humanities who oversees the current WebCT installation, and will have to do the analysis to decide if/when to move to Sakai, I will certainly contact you with questions/advice.

    We will begin this evaluation in February. Do you have any planning documents or list(s) of criteria you used in helping you make the decision to move to Sakai? Would you be willing to share them?

    Thanks for a great presentation, and for offering to be available to help.

  2. Dec 08, 2005

    Maggie Lynch says:

    Yes, I can probably dig up some planning documents for you. I'll post them here....

    Yes, I can probably dig up some planning documents for you. I'll post them here. However, it will be a couple of weeks as I am in the process of moving my household and getting our larger implementation ready for January.

    One of the keys for us was incorporating the Melete module from the beginning and making sure faculty understood how to use it. Other institutions I've spoken with did not use Melete. IMO without that the Sakai product is not nearly comparable. If you have Sakai in test now, also consider adding the LAMS module. It is another very nice piece that will wow at least some faculty.

    As I said in the presentation, the two biggest problems we faced with faculty were the native discussion tool and the bugs in the quiz tool. The discussion tool has been fixed with Jforum. Again, I would suggest implementation of that and don't even go to the native discussion tool. As for the quiz tool, we can share our workarounds from some of the most onerous bugs.

    If you have some immediate needs or questions, please feel free to call me at the office at 503-725-9116. As long as I'm available to talk, I'm happy to give a quick example, answer, etc.

  3. Dec 09, 2005

    Wytze Koopal says:

    Most of our documents are in Dutch, but my presentation is in English. See

    Most of our documents are in Dutch, but my presentation is in English.
    See http://bugs.sakaiproject.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=9614
    Check out slides 16-21 for some reasons we would like to move to Sakai.