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Unicon offers services for Sakai.


Unicon now offers solutions to educational institutions that adopt Sakai as their Collaborative Learning Collaborative learning is an umbrella term for a variety of approaches in education that involve joint intellectual effort by students or students and teachers. Collaborative learning refers to methodologies and environments in which learners engage in a common task in which each  Environment, a framework that can also act as a course management system. Specific services include Sakai installation, hosting, integration, technical support, and custom training. Sakai has also been integrated with Unicon's software product suite, Academus. This suite combines the administrative functions, collaborative activities, and learning endeavors of an institution through an enterprise portal See corporate portal. . In addition, the company plans to offer Sakai and uPortal, an open source portal developed by institutions of higher education higher education

Study beyond the level of secondary education. Institutions of higher education include not only colleges and universities but also professional schools in such fields as law, theology, medicine, business, music, and art.
, integration in the near future. For more information, visit the Sakai Project 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).
 at www.sakaiproject.org.
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Title Annotation:NEW PRODUCTS
Author:Varughese, Julie A.
Publication:University Business
Date:Aug 1, 2005
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