About the Teaching with Sakai Innovation Award

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Read about the Award at SakaiProject.org

 

The Teaching with Sakai Innovation Award (TWSIA) a worldwide search for innovative teaching practices that use the Sakai tools. The major goals of the TWSIA are the following:

  • To promote good pedagogy and innovation in teaching and learning with technology;
  • To share teaching and learning practices;
  • To get more instructors involved in the Sakai community.

Initiated at the 8th Sakai Conference in Newport Beach, California, in December 2007, The Teaching with Sakai Innovation Award is organized and supported by the Teaching and Learning group of the Sakai community, a geographically dispersed community of practice composed of managers, faculty, instructional technologists, and web designers who voluntarily devote time and energy to build awareness and promote the needs of instructors who are using Sakai. Last year’s award, which was the first, was a huge success, gathering submissions ranging from K-12 instructors to graduate university faculty from around the world.

The two winners were invited to the 9th Sakai Conference in Paris, France, where they gave a keynote presentation of their award-winning courses. Considered a highlight of the conference, Aileen Huang-Saad from the University of Michigan, United States, and Salim Nakhjavani from University of Cape Town, South Africa, spoke enthusiastically about how the Sakai collaborative and learning environment gave them the opportunity to take the learning experience of their students to the next level. The winner’s presentations can be viewed at: http://www.cpm.jussieu.fr/CPM/activites/visioconf/sakai_conf.htm#2AD