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Sakai/OSP Facts

Information from the Sakai website

The Sakai Community develops and distributes the open-source Sakai CLE (Collaborative Learning Environment), an enterprise-ready collaboration and courseware management platform that provides users with a suite of learning, portfolio, library and project tools. OSP is housed in Sakai.

Sakai is:

Designed by educators, for educators. The people building Sakai work at campuses just like yours. We believe they know best what features academic users value.

Flexible, Free and Open. Sakai is a powerful yet flexible solution that supports not only teaching and learning but also research and administrative collaboration. The Sakai CLE is distributed free of charge and our license is designed to encourage innovation and customization in order to meet local campus needs.

Our Community. Sakai is an active community of educational institutions working together to solve common problems and share best practices. The professional development and cross-institutional knowledge sharing are benefits hard to find elsewhere.

Information from the Open Source Portfolio website:

The Open Source Portfolio (OSP) is suite of tools in the Sakai CLE offering a robust, non-proprietary, open-source electronic portfolio application, developed by a community of individuals and organizations from around the world.

OSP Provides Tools for Students and for Faculty

STUDENTS: OSP provides an environment where portfolio owners - typically, students - can exhibit their work.

  • Tools to collect items that best represent their accomplishments, their learning, or their work;
  • Tools to reflect upon these items and their connections;
  • Tools to design a portfolio that showcases the best selections of this work;
  • And tools to publish the portfolio to designated audiences.

FACULTY: OSP also offers tools for faculty and administrators to provide structure and guidance for portfolio participants, instructors, evaluators, reviewers, and guests to review published portfolios and provide formal evaluation or informal feedback and comments. Tools for analysis of portfolio items in aggregation also make it possible to measure program effectiveness or educational outcomes.