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Related Pages The T&L Group Mission To drive innovation on teaching and learning within the Sakai community. To share best practices, understandings and experiences among faculty members themselves and between faculty and other Sakai community members. To communicate the goals and issues of the teaching and learning community to contributors in Sakai including developers, UX (user experience), system administrators, documentation, support, and QA (quality assurance).
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INVITATION TO LEARNING CAPABILITIES VIRTUAL WORKING SESSION The Teaching and Learning Group has been engaged in an "instructional visioning" exercise focused on Sakai 3 for the past several months. Much of our recent work has involved the generation of a Learning Capabilities document. We have reach a point in this process where we feel we need have a sustained and focused effort in order to organize and refine this document and "take it to the next level". To do this, we are in the process of planning for a two-day "virtual working session" in which we hope community members from around the world will come together to help work on this effort. If you are interest, please visit our Virtual Working Session planning page and sign up. 2010 Teaching with Sakai Innovation Award – Deadline March 15 The Teaching with Sakai Innovation Award publicly honors successful pedagogical innovation and best practices in teaching and learning in a Sakai environment. Winners will receive a trip to the 2010 Sakai Conference, June 14-17, 2010, in Denver, Colorado, USA to give a featured presentation about their teaching with Sakai. All entries will become part of the OpenEdPractices repository of best teaching practices. The award is sponsored by IBM, with additional support from rSmart and John Wiley & Sons. For more information about the award and the submission deadline, go to the Teaching with Sakai Innovation Award web site. The committee group work space is here: Teaching with Sakai Innovation Award Teaching and Learning Group Initiatives
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Comments (4)
Jul 17, 2006
Wytze Koopal says:
I have added some pedagogical questions that we need to focus on, I think. I kno...I have added some pedagogical questions that we need to focus on, I think.
I know that some other Europeans are working on this subject too. I will try to point them to this page and ask them to share their thoughts over here.
For sure, we will be discussing this issue in Lubeck on the European Sakai Day (www.oncampus.de/sakai).
Sep 22, 2006
Stanley Portier says:
I think the questions that were pointed out by Wytze are really what the educati...I think the questions that were pointed out by Wytze are really what the educational requirements are about. Other issues are too often interpreted in terms of functionality / components in Sakai. One of the conclusions at the Lubeck conference is that we now should really focus more on the learners. They are the real stakeholders here.
Jul 20, 2007
Joshua Baron says:
I agree with Stanley here and liked the question that Wytze added... I think th...I agree with Stanley here and liked the question that Wytze added...
I think these thoughts related to my feeling that the pedagogy group may want to try and focus more "purely" on instructional issues related to teaching and learning with Sakai and stear away from technical issues. This comment is by no means an attempt to minimize the importance of the technical "challenges", particular those related to UX issues, that we as the Sakai community face today. These, in my opinion, are critical issues and ones that need to take top priority right now within the community.
My feeling is just that we already have a lot of folks focused on and discussing these technical and UI issues (I'm involved in these on a limited basis myself). Since these discussion are already being moved forward, I have begun to think that this is a good time for some of us to focus more exclusively on the uses of Sakai, as it is today, in ways that can truly innovate the teaching and learning process.
Although I recognize (and struggle myself in my role at my institution to deal with them) that the tools within Sakai are not perfect (yet) and can be limiting at times for instructors, I also believe that they can be used in very powerful ways, as they are today, to radically improve how we teach and students learn.
I've started to try and stimulate a discussion on this and plan for some related sessions in Newport along with many others on the Pedagogy DG so if there are others with an interest in this topic please join that list on Collab and jump into the discussion!
Josh
Oct 08
Joshua Baron says:
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