Live! Integration Coming to Sakai Open-Source LMS
Education technology developer Elluminate is bringing its Live!
collaboration suite to the Sakai Collaboration and Learning
Environment, an open-source learning management system. The move is
part of a new alliance with Unicon, a company that specializes in
providing support and services for open-source software to education.
Elluminate
Live! is an e-learning, conferencing, and online collaboration tool
designed for use in education, providing support for a variety of
learning management systems, including Blackboard, Moodle, Sakai,
WebCT, and eCollege. It includes features like note taking, two-way
interactive video (up to 640 x 480), archiving and automatic indexing
of e-learning sessions, various tools for teachers (timers, pop-up
announcements, sorting of participants by hand raising, etc.),
whiteboarding, and various other collaboration tools.
The plans
for the new Sakai integration include adding synchronous content for
distance learning; creating Live! sessions for delivery to live
classroom environments; adding recordings of live sessions for review;
recorded tutorials for assignments; the creation of virtual rooms in
which students can collaborate; the ability to invite guest speakers to
attend and moderate sessions; and the ability for instructors to create
virtual offices.
The integration is expected to be completed and
available for the public in spring 2008. Sakai supports Mac OS X,
Windows, and various flavors of Unix.
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