Sakai Conference 2011

June 16, 2011

Wrapped up the 2011 Sakai Conference in Los Angeles today. It started on Monday with a full day Opencast Matterhorn workshop. We had a packed room to start the day and it ebbed and flowed throughout the day. Bootcamp, implementation stories, speed dating… There is an impressive small group of vendors starting to come together to support the new project: Entwine (support services in AV design and software Dev.), Epiphan (hardware), NCast (hardware), and Longsight were all there. Big Blue Button is also working on an integration with Boise State. All-in-all it was a good day and I am really excited about the work being done on this project as it moves to it’s next stage and folks start adopting it. There is an impressive 762 instances installed around the world right now!

The conference was abuzz again with the promise of Sakai OAE, as it is on the verge of it’s v1 release. I think people are only starting to become aware of how transformative that product may be for our campuses. It is not your mother’s LMS nor is it your father’s portal… (I am sure someone else has said that already).

I am proud of the ETS team at Berkeley team for being an integral part of both of these projects.

Posted by marahancock
Filed in Ed Tech, Good Thinking, Open Source, Opencast, UC Berkeley
Tags: opencast, Sakai, sakai11, sakai2011

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About Me

Mara Hancock

I am the Director for Educational Technologies at UC Berkeley and oversee the Educational Technology Services department. We serve the UC Berkeley campus community by providing classroom technology services and online tools which supports them in their teaching, learning and collaborative endeavors and are committed to the pursuit of innovative educational technology projects in areas that can expand our ability to improve the teaching and learning experience at Berkeley and around the world. ETS has been an active participant in the Fluid Project, Sakai Project , and now are leading the Opencast Project. -- all open source, community developed products out of higher ed.

Some of our systems and services include:

bSpace (Collaboration and Learning Environment);
webcast.berkeley (video and podcasts of courses and events);
av.berkeley (Check out AV equipment);
Instructional design and faculty development.
Classroom technology design, installation, and support.

I also am currently the Director for Online Learning for the UC Online Instrucation Pilot Project. A system-wide project developing online undergraduate courses for UC students and learners around the world.

I live in Berkeley with my partner, Tracy Davis, and son, Tynan Davis.

This site is not sponsored by UC Berkeley nor does it necessarily reflect the opinions of the institution. They are purely my own. Don't like them? Blame me.

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