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Sakai OAE Steering Group

The Steering Group oversees the managed development of the Open Academic Environment.

The Sakai OAE Steering Group provides oversight for Sakai OAE project, balancing local needs of contributing institutions and the requirement to deliver a successful community release.

Given the approach of the managed project, the steering group fills an important role in supporting the effectiveness of the Sakai OAE Project Director, Alan Marks.

Each organization represented in the Steering Group has made a significant resource investment to the Sakai OAE project. Steering Group participation is not required of investing organizations.

 

Sakai OAE Steering Group Members

 

David Goodrum – Indiana University, USA (Steering Group Chair)

Today Indiana University successfully uses the Sakai CLE to serve over 100,000 students across eight campuses. IU’s engagement in the Sakai OAE project is specifically focused on bringing the university’s instructional design strengths to the project, and ensuring a smooth, cohesive path for institutions that will migrate from the Sakai CLE, or use both the Sakai CLE and OAE.

 

Philip Uys - Charles Sturt University, Australia

Charles Sturt University is an international multi-campus university with a mission that centers on the flexible delivery of learning. The range of locations, delivery methods, and programs of study supported by the university create unique needs in the flexibility of the university’s learning and collaboration systems.

 

David Ackerman - New York University, USA

NYU has a host of use cases that are not met by any existing LMS. The needs are driven by several college’s initiatives to create a stronger academic community and increase the students’ agency and engagement in their academic experiences.

 

Clay Fenlason - Georgia Tech, USA

The technical strength of the Georgia Tech community resulted in limited adoption of its traditional learning management systems. The Institute seeks a flexible technology environment that allows innovators to develop and remix tools and content and easily share their work across the university and the community.

 

Oliver Heyer – University of California Berkeley, USA

Like Indiana University, UC Berkeley uses the Sakai CLE effectively to support teaching, learning, research and collaboration for its students. Berkeley’s immediate need is to create a student portal that brings together all of the institution’s resources that support any individual student’s success. Berkeley will use the Sakai OAE’s flexible authoring and re-mixing capabilities to achieve this.

 

John Norman – Cambridge University, United Kingdom

The unique academic environment of Cambridge University requires a system that allows a student to explore, synthesize and create academic content. This learning experience occurs in an environment that is rich with resources, experts and artifacts, but light on boundaries and defined processes. Cambridge’s participation in the Sakai OAE project is staffed from the Centre for Applied Research, an organization that seeks to define new systems and models to support this flexible learning and research experience.

 

Sean DeMonner - University of Michigan, USA

As part of its NextGen Michigan effort, U-M is seeking to add Sakai OAE to its existing ecosystem of academic technology services. There are several high level goals for the project; it will: balance security and openness, be loosely integrated and modular, support clear distinctions and control over public vs. private data, be reliable at scale, but flexible and responsive to changing business needs, and facilitate content discovery while enforcing intellectual property policy. The resulting academic technology environment will be vital to supporting the university's Teaching & Learning, Research, and Service missions.

 

Ian Dolphin - Sakai Foundation