Abstract

In early 2008 CSU Interact a new online collaborative scholarly environment based on Sakai was rolled out across the Charles Sturt University for learning and teaching. CSU’s implementation of Sakai, an online collaboration and learning environment, provides an integrated, enhanced and evolving learning environment for on and off campus students. CSU has tied Sakai to it’s back end student systems so that all cohorts of students in every subject have access to the new learning environment. This presentation will describe the implementation of Sakai at CSU. Including:

• What is Sakai;
• The Sakai community;
• Why did CSU select Sakai;
• CSU’s enterprise approach to implementing Sakai;
• The technology and architecture of Sakai;
• Sakai interactive teaching and learning tools;
• CSU Interact – implementing Sakai at CSU.

Bio

After working as an academic in the School of Computing and Mathematics, Phil has recently been appointed as Director Operations, within the Division of Information Technology at CSU. Phil has 14 years experience in the IT industry across a range of sectors. He has worked in network and information technology infrastructure support in Media, Medical and Educational sectors, as well as running his own IT consultancy business.

Phil is an experienced networks and data centre manager, with his specialty being the monitoring and measuring of IT services and infrastructure.