Sakai Project
Description
This page is about the software project, for other meanings, see Sakai.
Sakai is a community of academic institutions, commercial organizations and individuals who work together to develop a common Collaboration and Learning Environment (CLE). The Sakai CLE is a free, community source, educational software platform distributed under the Educational Community License (a type of open source license). The Sakai CLE is used for teaching, research and collaboration. Systems of this type are also known as Course Management Systems (CMS), Learning Management Systems (LMS), or Virtual Learning Environments (VLE).
Sakai is a Java-based, service-oriented application suite that is designed to be scalable, reliable, interoperable and extensible. Version 1.0 was released in March 2005.
As of July 2007, Sakai is in production at over 150 institutions and being piloted by over 100 more. A [http://sakaiproject.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=588 map showing many of these] is available.