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- Rice had a deployment of Web CT that had some traction 4 years ago.
- The timing was right with the Sakai consortia, the purchase of Web CT by Blackboard and the desire for Rice to support an open source initiative. The catalyst for change was a proposed huge increase in licensing costs for Web CT.
- At the time of decision, Sakai was the only player in the open-source CMS market (Moodle hadn't come out yet).
- Rice has close peer relationships with some of the Sakai founding institutions.
2) What is your SAKAI infrastructure?
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13) Do you offer strictly online or hybrid courses?
- Most Rice classes are face-to-face. Sakai is used to distribute instructional resources more than it is as a formal teaching venue.
- Only a few courses are taught in what Sloan-C would define as a hybrid model.
- Most of our small catalog of on-line offerings are done through video connection or classroom capture with Sakai playing a supporting role.
14) What are the SAKAI best practices that you adopt?
15) How frequently do you purge the SAKAI data for previous semesters?
- Currently, we do not purge. Sakai's current version does not offer a tool to do this conveniently.
Note Salah Dami
Assistant Director of Technical Services
Information Technology
Essex County College
Tel: 973-877-3502
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