List of Sessions for the EurosSakai 2010

Title and Description

Speaker

5 universities, 200 students share a lecture series and collaborate with 'open' principles

Nynke Kruiderink (Universeit van Amsterdam)

The annual lecture series organized by the International Development Studies, University of Amsterdam, used an instance of Sakai to share the lectures publically, under a Creative Commons license, and content (preference for Open Access), and to host the group of 200 students from 5 universities, to facilitate collaboration with each other.

Nynke Kruiderink a political scientist with her roots in New York city, heart in the tropics, and specialized in knowledge management, freely defined as the scala of activities between online learning and knowledge sharing on the one hand, and information management on the other. Since March 2009 she is the teamleader ICT in Education at the College and Graduate School of Social Sciences, University of Amsterdam.
As part of the team of pioneers who founded The Network University (TNU) in the 1990's, she worked as an account manager, instructional designer, graphics designer, and programmer, also playing a key role in the building of TNU’s specialized e-learning platform. Subsequently, she took a position as e-learning and digital projects expert at the International Agricultural Institute (IAC), where she formulated the online capacity building strategy, in addition to building web applications, web portals and e-learning modules.
At the International Institute for Communication and Development (IICD), she was responsible for coordinating IICDs knowledge and information management strategy, managing the Dgroups portfolio of some 24+ development organisations, and co-managing a variety of online knowledge sharing initiatives with international partners.

10 ways to make a good Sakai release

Jean Francois Leveque (UPMC), Alan Berg (UvA), Anthony Whyte (University of Michigan)

Lots of people have been contributing to Sakai from the beginning with the following goal: making it better for local and general use. Whether you're using Sakai, doing support, training, maintenance or other tasks on a local implementation, providing functionality, asking for new features, contributing or willing to contribute any other way, this presentation will give you at least 10 ways to contribute to the improvement of Sakai.

Jean-François Lévêque has been involved in IT for Teaching and Learning at UPMC since 2003 running proprietary software first and then Sakai for
2.5 years to this day. Jean-François is UPMC's only Sakai technical officer working almost full time on Sakai with the help from the non-technical support and training teams. Jean-François is currently involved in diverse Sakai activities such as internationalization and localization, release management, maintenance branch management, quality assurance and Multi-Institutional Survey Initiative.

Alan Berg Bsc. MSc. PGCE, has been a lead developer at the Central Computer Services at the Universiteit van Amsterdam for more than a millennium. In his famously scarce spare time, he writes computer articles (http://home.uva.nl/a.m.berg). Alan has a degree, two masters, and a teaching qualification. In previous incarnations, he was a technical writer, an Internet/Linux course writer ok a product line development officer, and a teacher. He likes to get his hands dirty with the building and gluing of systems. He remains agile by playing computer games with his kids who sadly consistently beat him physically, mentally and morally. Did I mention the physical beatings; those eight and twelve year olds are so tough.

Anthony is a Senior Applications Programmer/Analyst based at the University of Michigan and the technical liaison for the Sakai Foundation. Anthony is currently involved in release management, tool development, site administration (sakaiproject.org, ux.sakaiproject.org), community relations and advocacy. Prior to joining the Sakai, Anthony served as a developer, lead developer and ultimately Director of Systems for Strategic Interactive and Novations Learning Technologies, where he helped design, build and implement commercial learning management systems for Fortune 100 companies. A Fulbright scholar, Anthony was educated at Michigan State University and Princeton University. He is an avid cyclist and woodworker.

A Campus Wide System - The Implementation of Sakai at Stockholm University

Magnus Tagesson and Niklas Olaisson, IT and media, Stockholm University

Stockholm University has run Sakai in production since 2007. In this talk we will address our implementation from a technical view and our experiences over the 2,5 years since the start. Training, support and other challenges will be shared with the audience.

Niklas Olaisson has worked with IT educational issues since 2004 and with Sakai for 1,5 years now. With a background as a high school teacher he adds different perspectives to the Sakai work at Stockholm University. His work includes support, pedagogical issues as well as planning of development projects.

Magnus Tagesson has been involved in the Sakai project since 2004. He has been employed as an IT educational developer at Stockholm University since 1998. Today he's responsible for Stockholm's implementation of Sakai with planning for future releases.

A telco proposal to bring e-learning services to Emerging Countries

Aitor Rubio Elguea (Orange)

The global operator Orange studies new ways to practice Corporate Social Responsibility in AMEA countries. Among these, there's the innitiative driven by Orange Labs Spain consisting in facilitating the deployment and access to e-learning technologies by schools, integrating such sytems with mobile devices and providing the right tools to content makers to adapt/build new contents. This presentation shows the concept design by Orange Labs Spain and prototype currently under development

Aitor Rubio Elguea, graduated at University Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) as Telecommunication Engineer. He works at Orange Spain, in Orange Labs Research and Development as Innovation Engineer, in projects related to new services and technologies. He has worked in several telecommunication companies, mostly focused on devices and users side.

Competence-driven evaluation using OSP

David Barroso (Universitat de Lleida)

We will show how the Open Source Portfolio is used to supervise the final grade and master project on the engineering studies offered at
the Higher Politechnic School at University of Lleida in Spain. OPS is used to plan learning activities in terms of competences and learning
outcomes, defining mesurable indicators to validate the level of competence achieved by the students.

David Barroso works as Analyst and Project Manager at the Information and Communication Systems Area at University of Lleida (UdL)
He has a degree on Computer Science and he is now working on his PhD Thesis about the use of Semantic Web technologies to enhance
e-learning systems.
He is the leader of the team that introduced Sakai as a Learning Management System at UdL and made the initial Sakai internationalization
effort that was honored by the Andrew-Mellon foundation MATC award.

COOL ways to keep them moving?

Shirley Bennett and Patrick Lynch (University of Hull, UK)

This session will explore how a peer support network amongst staff can be used to surface and address the ongoing concerns of staff beyond ‘getting them online’. Data from Collaborative Observation On-Line (COOL) shows teachers’ real concerns about their online practice and provides a basis for identifying support strategies.

Shirley Bennett, Senior Advisor – Peer Support for Learning and Teaching in the Learning & Teaching Support Unit and Programme Leader Med in eLearning

Patrick Lynch, eLearning Coordinator - supporting the development of teaching and administrative staff

Creating Video Learning Objects for Sakai with Polimedia

Carlos Turró (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia)

One of the questions to solve for a successful introduction on video content for any e-learning platform is how such content is going to be created. The process of creation has to be designed in such a way that it doesn’t waste teacher’s precious time and, in the other hand, producing a high quality learning product suitable for the students. With these restrictions in mind, we have designed a framework, that we call Polimedia, to produce such content. We have used Polimedia at the Politechnical University of Valencia jointly with Sakai, and we have more than 400 video learning objects, recorded from more than 200 teachers. In our presentation we will show how the process is designed, we will take a look for real examples, and finally we will insight in how the students use the Polimedia content within Sakai.

Carlos Turró, PhD. is Network Administrator and Head of Media Services at the Politechnical University of Valencia. He has more than 50 publications in international congress and journals. Lately his work has dealt with the design & development of Polimedia tool for Video e-Learning, gaining the Spanish FICOD award, and several other international mentions.

E-learning environments based on open source: a review in Spanish Universities

PhD. Mª Paz Prendes Espinosa (Universidad de Murcia)

In this paper we present a research about the uses of open source e-learning environments in spanish universities (both private and public). The research proposed three goals: by one hand, the description of the reality about these telematic tools, obtaining a photograph where finally Moodle has a great advantage over any other tool; by the other hand, we have questioned about the process of decission in each case, so the key factors to decide the implementation of each e-learning environment; and finally, we have evaluated different tools (including Moodle and Sakai) with a methodology of expert users judge. With all these information and considering the most important factors of judge from our point of view, we have decided to implement Sakai in the University of Murcia. Currently we are working in this process of change from different key aspects: organizational, academic, technical and pedagogical.

Lecturer in the University of Murcia specialized in educational technologies and applications of ICT to education. Currently she is Coordinator of Virtual Education (University of Murcia), so she is working in the project to implement Sakai in this University. Moreover, she is Head of Didactic and School Organization Department (University of Murcia), Head of Group of Research about Educational Technology (University of Murcia) and Secretary of EDUTEC, Professional Association for the Development of Educational Technology and New Technologies applied to Education.

E-learning Web and Printing Format Generation Using Independent XML Technology

Alberto González Téllez (DISCA-UPV)

E-learning content delivery through the Internet is nowadays a very active topic in academy, industry and research. Common tools used in presential learning are not adequate in the new context then new tools are required in order to produce, manage and deliver learning content in a way as much independent and flexible as possible. We present a set of tools that allows independent e-learning production and one-source-several-format delivery using vendor independent XML languages, particularly Docbook.

Alberto González Téllez graduated in Physics in 1986 and received his Ph.D. in 1996. He does his research and teaching in the Dept. of Systems Data Processing and Computers as Associate Professor. His main subjetcts are Authoring Tools and Techniques for E-learning and Parallel Computation Applied to Mutimedia Processing. He has made contributions in performace evaluation of paralle systems, parallel implementations of numeric linear algebra and video encoding algorithms, and authoring e-learning content using independent and XML compliant languages.

Flexible Sakai. Four success cases

Diego del Blanco (Samoo)

In this session we will describe the work done at four really diferent sakai installations. Integrations, new developments and new features. From a On-Line University Virtual Campus to a system for rent individual sites bases on Sakai.

i18n review: BOF/Pannel Discussion

European Universities (conducted by Raúl Mengod)

Internationalization is very important for the european Universities running sakai. Traditionally it has been one of the lacks of sakai. It is necessary to review the state of the art of the sakai internationalization and improve the way it is managed by the sakai community.

Keep it Simple – A small OSP pilot at Stockholm University

Niklas Olaisson and Magnus Tagesson (IT and media, Stockholm University)

We will address how we’ve configured and run a pilot of OSP (Open Source
Portfolio) in Sakai at Stockholm University with over 200 students. It’s
crucial for the implementation to cooperate with the teachers and the
administrators during the planning to make the best outcome.

Let's have a Meeting in Sakai

Diego del Blanco and Miguel Carro (Samoo)

A description of different meetings tools integrations with Sakai (Adobe Connect, Elluminate…) and the work Samoo is doing with integrating OpenMeetings into Sakai.

Diego started in the e-Learning world 8 years ago at the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia he was gradually assuming duties as supporting teachers at pedagogical issues, managing a team of content design, participating in the selection process of the Sakai Virtual Campus at UPV and as part of the team that implemented and maintained Sakai, collaborating actively inside the Sakai community. Since 2008, he’s the head of the e-Learning area from a company called Samoo. He manages a team dedicated to the installation of Sakai solutions. He also directs R & D projects related to e-learning on mobile devices and digital television.

Miguel Carro Pellicer is a software engineer from UPV. He started his e-learning career working as analyst and developer of a government's LMS (eFormación - Qstutor).
Nowadays he works for Samoo as analyst of e-learning solutions, especialized in solutions based on Sakai. Also manages some projects with CMS, integrations with other LMS, VideoConference and R&D projects related with content exchange and accessibility.

Matching instructor requirements and Sakai features

Dr. Félix Buendía (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia)

Nowadays, Virtual Learning Environments (VLE) are widespread platforms addressed to support teaching activities (either on-line or campus-based) in different academic scenarios. However, it is usually difficult for instructors to know the full range of features and potentials provided by these platforms and how they can meet their specific teaching.

F. Buendía was born in Spain in 1966. He received the Master’s degree in computer engineering from the Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV) in 1992 and the Ph. D. degree from the UPV in 2003. He is currently an assistant teacher at the Department of Systems Data Processing and Computers at the UPV. His professional research interests are web applications and e-learning topics.

My students and shared resources. Design of a Student supervision tool.

Feliz and Luis Gouveia, Nuno Fernandes (UFP)

In this preserntation UFP will show the last tool implemented in UFP to supervise students

Feliz Gouveia is a member of the team of the eLearning project at UFP, and a Computer Science professor at the Faculty of Science and Engineering. Being in charge of the eLearning initiative at UFP, his team has been working on several tools focused on learning and collaboration, and on integration efforts to improve the use of the Sakai platform at UFP, where users voted it the most valuable and used academic service.

Nuno Fernandes is a Software Developer with 9 years of Java experience. Currently working at University Fernando Pessoa, he has been involved with Sakai development and its local implementation (branded as UFPUV) since December 2005. His current responsibilities include UFPUV deployment, local QA, maintenance, support, localization, internal services integration, bugfixes and implementation of new features and tools. Recent work with Sakai involves Java, Spring, Hibernate, JSF, Velocity, Apache Wicket, HTML, CSS and Javascript technologies. In June 2008, he was awarded Sakai Fellow 2008 at the 9th Sakai Conference in Paris, an international aknowledge of the quality of the contributions to the Sakai community.

Sakai Best practices

Alan Berg (Universeit van Amsterdam) and Aaron Zeckoski (Unicon)

This presentation discusses a range of best practices for developing with Sakai.
The presentation is targeted at developers and system administrators and is also of interest for an audience which wants to know more about the practices that the community follows.
The presentation includes an introduction to the most effective approaches to use of the issue tracking/bug reporting system (Sakai JIRA). We will present the tools of the trade including Eclipse, Maven, and the various community servers (Confluence, SVN, etc.).
There will be an in depth discussion on coding best practices. Finally we will consider what can be learnt from the Sakai 3 development process.

Sakai Implementation at Oxford University

Melissa Highton (University of Oxford)

The presentation will cover the following subjects: how Sakai has been implemented at Oxford University, how has been developed it to manage a very complex organisation. How the VLE fits with Oxford's teaching and learning strategy and the ways in which we have engaged with academic colleagues in their practice.

Melissa leads the Learning Technologies Group in Oxford University Computing Services. She is part of the senior management team there and also works closely with the E-learning Research Group in the Department of Education. She manages a number of high profile initiatives involving the use of new technologies designed to meet the needs of staff and students. She is responsible for WebLearn, the University’s virtual learning environment, the ‘Oxford in itunesU’ podcasting service and an extensive IT skills training programme for staff and students across the collegiate University.

Sakai Implementation experiece at Computer School of UCAM

Miguel Angel Guillém (Universidad Católica de Murcia)

This session will outline the efforts that Universidad Católica de Murcia has made to deploy Sakai. For beginners, this process has some difficulties to be solved before you boot the system. We will present the problems and the solutions, as well as the ideas to work in the future.

Miguel Ángel Guillén Navarro graduated at Universidad of Murcia (UM) as Computer Engineer, Master at Java Developer and Oracle Developer, he works as a teacher in the departament of the computer science at Universidad Católica de Murcia (UCAM). Before, he worked as J2EE developer in SQA and consultant in Capgemini.

Sakai newcomer - 10 easy questions not so easy

Daniel Merino (Universidad Pública de Navarra)

Any open source platform requires an important effort of research in order to be installed, configured and maintained. This lecture shows 10 common questions that any newcomer in Sakai will wonder and whose answers are not as easy as someone could suppose

Daniel Merino works as e-learning manager in the Centre for Innovation in Higher Education of the Public University of Navarra (Spain). His work involves maintaining a Sakai test server, in which he currently tests patches and new tools before applying them in the production server, and researching about new technologies aimed to improve the higher education

Sakai strategy at UPMC-Paris 6

Yves Epelboin (University P.M. Curie, Paris)

In 2007 UPMC made a strategic move switching from WebCT to Sakai. This change has proved to be a big success since the number of courses and projects opened in Sakai has exploded. We will explain the strategy of UPMC in its use of technologies and how Sakai is a fundamental brick of it. We will show, through examples, how professors have been able to accommodate Sakai to their own way of use and benefit from its flexibility.

Yves Epelboin is full professor at UPMC, Director of IT for Teaching and Learning. He is responsible for the strategy of UPMC in this area. He received a PHD from the university in physics in 1974 and came to IT through his research work in physics where he has been a theoretician using extensively simulation and computing. He has been working for IBM Research in Yorktown Heights.
His activity in IT led him to take responsibilities both at national and European levels in IT: he is a past President and funder of EUNIS (European University Information Systems organization)

Sakai 3 Roadmap

Michael Korcuska (Sakai Foundation)

A look at the planned milestones leading to a Sakai 3 release in 2011. This presentation will also include information about how to participate in design, development and testing of theSakai 3 software.

Michael Korcuska is the Executive Director of the Sakai Foundation and has nearly 20 years of experience in technology-enabled education and training. Prior to joining Sakai, Michael served as Chief Operating Officer for ELT, Inc., a leading compliance training provider. He has also held leadership positions at DigitalThink (now Convergys Learning Solutions) and Cognitive Arts, an award winning custom e-learning developer.

Site Stats, the power of event tracking at a single click in Sakai

Nuno Fernandez (UFP) and David Roldán (UPV)

Being able to track events it is crucial for site management and also for student tracking. SiteStats is the Sakai tool offered to cover these needs. It has been designed and developed mainly by Nuno Fernandes, from Universidade Fernando Pesoa (Portugal) and since its first version it has evolved so much. The session will focus its attention in SiteStat 2.0, which integrates with Sakai 2.6.x and will be structured as follows. Firstly, we will talk about why SST is need and will know its history and beginning. Then we will analyze SiteStats from three different point of view: end-user, through a list a new features; administrator, throught the explanation of how to install, configure and deploy SiteStats; and developer, studying how to add SiteStats support for Sakai tools. Finally, we will expose how to contribute with SST and answer any question attendees want to raise.

PhD. David Roldán Martínez graduated at Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (UPV) as Telecommunication Engineer, Master at Enterprise Networks and System Integration and made his doctoral thesis is about e-learning strategy at Higher Education Institutions. Actually, he works at ASIC-UPV at PoliformaT, UPV Virtual Campus. Before, he worked as consultant in several organizations and taught Communication Technologies at the UPV. He has published more than books related with IT and several articles in IT especialized press and maganizes.

Nuno Fernandes is a Software Developer with 9 years of Java experience. Currently working at University Fernando Pessoa, he has been involved with Sakai development and its local implementation (branded as UFPUV) since December 2005. His current responsibilities include UFPUV deployment, local QA, maintenance, support, localization, internal services integration, bugfixes and implementation of new features and tools. Recent work with Sakai involves Java, Spring, Hibernate, JSF, Velocity, Apache Wicket, HTML, CSS and Javascript technologies. In June 2008, he was awarded Sakai Fellow 2008 at the 9th Sakai Conference in Paris, an international aknowledge of the quality of the contributions to the Sakai community.

Student for an hour: Introducing faculty to Sakai around the student experience

Angélica Risquez (University of Limerick)

Since 2006 the Centre for Teaching and Learning at the University of Limerick has coordinated the training and development strategy for faculty in the use of Sakai. Initially, training sessions were mainly focused in the instructor's use of tools. More recently, faculty approaching Sakai for the first time experience it from a students' perspective. This presentation evolves around the insights of this approach to training and opens the debate with the audience.

Angelica Risquez works as Technology Enhanced Learning Advisor at the Centre for Teaching and Learning at the University of Limerick (Ireland). Her main responsibilities involve user support for Sakai (training, documentation and pedagogical support) and the plagiarism prevention software. Her PhD dissertation (currently under completion) is related to peer e-mentoring for transition to university.

Student Surveys of Teaching and Units in Sakai

Evandro Alves and Paulo Alves (Instituto Politécnico de Bragança)

Instituto Politécnico de Bragança has been doing student surveys until the
last year in a print form. With the adoption of Sakai in 2007 a new strategy
was defined to deploy Sakai as a single VLE in our institution. This strategy
includes this year the integration of a new tool to do student surveys of
teaching and units, developed as a native tool using RSF.

Evandro Alves: Graduated at Instituto Politécnico de Bragança in Management Informatics in 2006, started working there as a systems manager and supporting on existing applications. From 2007 started working in the implementation of Sakai.

Paulo Alves: Graduated in Electrical Engineering in 1997 (UTAD University), Master in Multimedia Technology in 2001 (Engineering Faculty of Oporto University), made is doctoral thesis about “e-generation: an architecture for educational Intranets based on agents”. Currently is the coordinator of Information Technology Center and the supervisor of the implementation of Sakai on IPB.

Support lessons learned from implementing Sakai at Hull, UK

Christine Butcher and Patrick Lynch (University of Hull, UK)

This presentation will focus on supporting students and staff at the coalface and will be presented from a help desk perspective. Hull has implemented Sakai to replace Blackboard and a home grown system. Staff and students had a wealth of experience using these systems. What have we learned?

Christine Butcher, Helpdesk Analyst with many years experience supporting students and staff.

Patrick Lynch, eLearning Coordinator - supporting the development of teaching and administrative staff.

The new Knowledge Base tool for Sakai

Jaeques Koeman (EDIA)

The Knowledge Base tool is a complete knowledge base application that replaces the help-function of Sakai. It is context sensitive to sites, tools, permissions and it features a Lucene/Solar search engine. It was initially developed for the University of Amsterdam by Edia. see also http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/KBT/Home

Jaeques Koeman has a background in Social Science Informatics and is business developer and project manager at Edia. Before he worked at the University of Amsterdam as project manager of ICT in education and contributed to the implementation of Sakai.

Towards European convergence through Sakai

Susana Martínez (ASIC-UPV), Pilar Bonet (ICE-UPV) and Pilar Cáceres (ICE-UPV)

In Europe we are undergoing a process of convergence of University studies which aims, among other things, the unification of criteria concerning mobility and transfer of comparable studies. This process involves the adoption of the ECTS as a measure of student academic having with the consequent change in the educational model.
The new educational model, as stated in the decree, "is to guide the programming and teaching methodologies by focusing on student learning" which implies a new definition of learning-teaching activities.
For the design, planning, monitoring and evaluation of these activities, ICT are crucial, as educational platform. In this sense, in the UPV several innovative educational actions and practices, which involve the increasing intensive use of Sakai in the everyday teaching.
This presentation will provide practical use cases in different subjects of the UPV that are adapting to new approaches of the EHEA.

Susana Martinez-Naharro. Information Systems and Communications Area (ASIC) - UPV. She works in training, educational counseling and user support in the use of ICT for teaching and the use and learning platform applications.

M. Pilar Bonet-Espinosa. Institute of Education Sciences (ICE) – UPV. She works in faculty training and advice on educational innovation projects developed in the area of educational technology in the University.

Pilar González-Cáceres, Institute of Education Sciences (ICE) – UPV. She is responsible for the Education Technology group of the Institute, works in training the faculty of the University and advice on educational innovation projects developed in this area.

Upgrading and merging sakai with a customized local instance.

David Roldán (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia)

In Autumm 2009 the UPV moved its local instance of sakai from version 2.4 to version 2.6. The local instance running was highly customized to meet the requirement of the University. It was necessary a big effort to merge local changes with the upgraded sakai version. In this presentation we will show the process followed and the lessons learned.

Using a Hierarchy of Sites to Help Decentralise Administration

Dr. Adam Marshall (University of Oxford)

This session will outline the enhancements that Oxford University have made to Sakai to provide a mechanism of arranging sites into a hierarchy, and how we use this hierarchy, in conjunction with a brand new type of site (the administration site), to allow administration of Sakai to be decentralised into individual departments and colleges.

Dr Adam Marshall is the head of the WebLearn development team at Oxford University.

What is Sakai QA

Alan Berg (UvA), Aaron Zeckoski (Unicon), Anthony Whyte (University of Michigan)

This presentation details the Sakai QA and Release Management process.
It is targeted at managers and administrators and generally at anyone interested in learning more about the Sakai QA and release process.
We will explain what the Sakai maintenance team is and what their relationship is to the QA process? An introduction to the possibilities for community and local testing automation will be included. The many opportunities to get involved with Sakai QA will then be highlighted.

Alan Berg Bsc. MSc. PGCE, has been a lead developer at the Central Computer Services at the Universiteit van Amsterdam for more than a millennium. In his famously scarce spare time, he writes computer articles (http://home.uva.nl/a.m.berg). Alan has a degree, two masters, and a teaching qualification. In previous incarnations, he was a technical writer, an Internet/Linux course writer ok a product line development officer, and a teacher. He likes to get his hands dirty with the building and gluing of systems. He remains agile by playing computer games with his kids who sadly consistently beat him physically, mentally and morally. Did I mention the physical beatings; those eight and twelve year olds are so tough.

Anthony is a Senior Applications Programmer/Analyst based at the University of Michigan and the technical liaison for the Sakai Foundation. Anthony is currently involved in release management, tool development, site administration (sakaiproject.org, ux.sakaiproject.org), community relations and advocacy. Prior to joining the Sakai, Anthony served as a developer, lead developer and ultimately Director of Systems for Strategic Interactive and Novations Learning Technologies, where he helped design, build and implement commercial learning management systems for Fortune 100 companies. A Fulbright scholar, Anthony was educated at Michigan State University and Princeton University. He is an avid cyclist and woodworker.

Aaron Zeckoski is a software engineer and open source software developer. He is internationally recognized for his expertise in the Sakai open source collaborative learning environment. His nine years of experience include work both as part of a university team and as an independent consultant. An experienced systems architect, Aaron has demonstrated his programming expertise in all aspects of web application development; he is a major contributor to projects such as the Sakai CLE, DSpace 2 repository, and Opencast Matterhorn. He is also experienced and interested in technical documentation, development of tools for programmers, and developer training. He is an active member of the Sakai, Opencast, and DSpace developer communities. In his spare time, he dabbles in PHP and Python and is an advocate of ReST and open source. He seeks challenging work involving web applications and service oriented architectures.

Wimba. The magic of collaboration

David Puente (eLearning Solutions)

Wimba Create and Wimba Collaboration Suite are integrated solutions for Sakai and eLearning systems. Offer teachers and students tools based on videoconferencing and VOIP as well as content editors that will expand the current possibilities of Sakai. Be worth a demonstration.

Born in 1971, is licensed in Education in 1996. In 1999 he began working in SADIEL SA and in 2001 was named head of eLearning projects, managing projects in many organizations of the Junta de Andalucía, Junta de Extremadura, Castilla la Mancha, CajaSol, Caja Granada, National Police, Iberia, Civil Guard, Ministry of Public Administration and many universities.
It has now launched a new consultancy called eLearning Solutions through various applications representing large global expansion but little widespread in our country.