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NCDLA Presentation – Collaborating with Sakai

This is the second of two presentations at that I am making at The North Carolina Distance Learning Association’s 2011 Virtual Conference: Engaging Online Learners. This presentation will look at using Sakai to manage and collaborate with multi-sections or groups. It is a co-presentation with Dr. Anastacia Kohl from the Department of Romance Languages at UNC-Chapel Hill. Abstract This [...]

Taking Our Toys to a New Sandbox

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The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is the most recent institution added to the growing list of colleges and universities that are abandoning Blackboard to move to the Sakai Learning Management System (LMS). This change comes after a highly successful pilot at UNC that started in the fall of 2008. The decision to move to Sakai is greater than just a change in a learning management system; it also is a major indicator of the direction of instructional technology in higher education as a whole.

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