Presentation for Apereo 2014 Miami Conference Titled: 52: Smallest team, no budget, trigger something impossible with Sakai
Dokuz Eylul University Distance Education Research and Implementation Center.
52: Smallest team, no budget, trigger something impossible with Sakai
1. Smallest team, No budget,
Trigger Something Impossible
with Sakai
Specialist Ömür D. DALAN
Specialist L. Özge ORAL
Dokuz Eylul University Distance Learning
Implementation and Research Center
Research Assistant Özlem DALAN
Dokuz Eylul University Management Information Systems Dpt.
3. 2010 Q4
● Distance Education Implementation and Research Center
is established in University with only its manager
4. 2011 Q2
● Core Team Gathered:
– Software Management (Ömür)
– Hardware Management (Cem)
– Content Management (Emre)
– Training Management (Özge)
– Infrastructure Management (Selçuk)
● Met with 4 universities from Turkey who uses different LMS
softwares
● Chose and install SAKAI on a single 8GB server
5. 2011 Q3
● University wide orientation and promotion of research
center to faculties and institutes.
● First program begins with 300 students and 20 lecturers. It
was on-line and synchronous with BigBlueButton
6. 2012 Q2
● Distance Education Implementation and Research Center
has been moved to its own building.
7. 2012 Q2
● Second program created (Worker Health Nursery)
● Custom Exam and Question Pool Project with Medicine Faculty
started
● On-line Exam Project with Ministry of National Education started
● Center had another administrative staff assistant manager
● Another recruitments for Infrastructure Management and Call Center
● Upgrade to two 16GB Dual CPU Xeons with virtualization (XEN)
8. 2012 Q3
● Students increased by 500
● 8 Course from different programs across University started
to use LMS
9. 2013 Q1
● Signed contract with another University (Gediz University)
to complete their distance education infrastructure and
training
● Upgrade to four 16GB Dual CPU Xeons with Load
Balancing
10. 2013 Q2
● A course named “Communication in Promotion” started as
a distance learning course
● A Staff recruitment made for administrative staff position
11. 2013 Q3
● “Computer Programming” Undergraduate program started
with 60 students
● “Quality Management” Graduate program started with 13
students
● “İlahiyat” program quota increased to 1000
● 13 common compulsory courses across University been
converted to distance learning courses with 700 students
● Upgrade to eight 32GB Dual CPU Xeons with Load
Balancing
12. 2013 Q4
● Custom Exam and Question Pool Project with Medicine
Faculty completed
● Medicine Faculty started using online exams
13. 2014 Q1
● Another recruitments for documentary creation and
content management positions.
