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Columbia and U Hawaii Moving Forward with Sakai
8/25/2008
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At the University of Hawaii, each of the 8,000-plus course sections will have a Sakai group created through real-time integration with the university's Sungard Banner Student information system. The system serves about 50,000 students at 10 campuses and five education centers on six islands, as well as distance learners around the world.
Hawaii's Sakai implementation is referred to locally as "Laulima," which translates literally from Hawaiian as "many hands" and refers to cooperation, joint action, or a group of people working together. Laulima is replacing Blackboard's WebCT, which was originally licensed about 10 years ago. WebCT course content is migrated to the Sakai platform on request by faculty. Laulima will also replace use of the Sungard Luminis portal MyCourse group tools. In addition to being used for distance and campus-based courses, Laulima also supports over 200 collaboration groups and will be the platform for several e-portfolio projects around the university system.
Hawaii joined the Sakai Educational Partnership Program in spring 2004.
Dian Schaffhauser is a writer who covers technology and business. Send your higher education technology news to her at dian@dischaffhauser.com.
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