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- Instructors: Provide a collaborative learning environment for students that is accessible on and off campus, encourage collaborative learning by allowing students to build publicly editable wikis, encourage critical discourse on discussion boards, keep track of organize your courseslessons, host virtual office hours from any location with highspeed Internet accesaccess.
- Researchers: Network with colleagues, organize data, collaborate on projects, chat in real time, brainstorm solutions on discussion boards, host video conferences, and stream PowerPoint presentations, just to name of few of the possibilities.
- Students: Host Web sites, plan events, share files, form social networks, organize student groups, host study sessions, collaborate on creative projects, create research groups, and more.
Best of all, this stable and easy to use system is open-source and thus completely expandable, which means that universities are free to both improve the existing code and add additional features as they become needed. With over 85 educational institutions across the country now contributing to the creation of the Sakai course management system, faculty, staff, students, and researchers will undoubtedly appreciate the unyielding focus afforded their unique needs, as the system evolves alongside our rapidly changing technological environment.
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