Follow on Google News News By Tag Industry News News By Place Country(s) Industry News
Follow on Google News | CEAI Wins $282,000 Sakai Implementation Contract for the Ohio Department or EducationCEAI Wins $282,000 Sakai Implementation Contract for the Ohio Department or Education
CEAI will implement Sakai to support Ohio Department of Education’s Data Driven Decisions for Academic Achievement (D3A2) Online Classroom Assessment Module (CAM) project. D3A2 is long-term initiative focused on developing the capacity of educators while improving instruction and student achievement. D3A2 provides systemic access to timely data and educational resources aligned to Ohio’s Academic Content Standards. When complete, the CAM will allow teachers to create new assessment items, such as tests and quizzes, and organize them into local collections or banks for reuse. This online classroom software: * Compiles and delivers web accessible standards-based assessments * Stores banks of test questions and response to allow printing of assessments * Presents groupings of questions for student access and consideration (i.e. – a test or a quiz) * Provides multiple methodologies for scoring these tests or quizzes and for transferring results to the D3A2 Data Warehouse for further analysis and/or reporting CEAI will implement the CAM, building upon existing functionality in the Sakai Collaboration and Learning Environment (Sakai CLE). Sakai, an open-source project developed by leading institutions of higher-education will be enhanced to support the needs of the CAM project, and allow Ohio K-12 districts and educators to author, deliver, and assess online diagnostic tests. CEAI will couple its Sakai expertise with its project management, software development, implementation, testing, training, and support services to deliver a complete Sakai solution to NBEC. “We are excited [for CEAI] to add the CAM short cycle assessment capabilities to the suite of data analysis services available through the D3A2 Project. This capability is the most frequently requested enhancement that schools and teachers are requesting of us.”stated Eric Bell, D3A2 Project Manager for NBEC.As part of the CAM project, CEAI will integrate Sakai into Ohio Department of Education’s existing Oracle’s Identity & Access Management system to ensure that existing Ohio students, teachers, and administrators can be provisioned into CAM seamlessly. CEAI will also integrate into Ohio Department of Education’s Oracle Business Intelligence system to support leveraging student assessment results in reports as part of the D3A2 project, allowing diagnostic testing data to be used to measure and target student progress. Duane Baker, Director of Planning & Research for NBEC stated, “CEAI’s CAM implementation will permit Ohio schools to measure student progress more frequently through locally developed standards-based tests, and focus learning activities on the specific needs of individual students. CEAI’s integration of CAM into the D3A2 Data Warehouse will make longitudinal analysis more accurate, and will help to identify specific instructional needs of each student.” CEAI partnered the James Group, Smart Solutions, Sakai Foundation and the Oracle Corporation to ensure that CAM is seamlessly integrated with Northern Ohio Department of Education’s D3A2 program. “CEAI is pleased to have been selected by NBEC to deliver the D3A2 CAM project.” said Anjli Jain, Executive Director, CampusEAI Consortium. "This contract award solidifies our position as the Sakai and Oracle Fusion Middleware experts". To learn more about CEAI’s eLearning solutions and services, contact info@campuseai.org About Sakai Sakai is an online Collaboration and Learning Environment. Many users of Sakai deploy it to support teaching and learning, ad hoc group collaboration, support for portfolios and research collaboration. Sakai is a free and open source product that is built and maintained by the Sakai community. Sakai's development model is called "Community Source" because many of the developers creating Sakai are drawn from the "community" of organizations that have adopted and are using Sakai. For more information, visit http://sakaiproject.org. About NBEC The Northern Buckeye Education Council (NBEC) is a not-for-profit Council of Governments organized under Chapter 167 of the Ohio Revised Code. The purpose of the NBEC is to provide educational entities in greater northwestern Ohio access to a variety of cooperative administrative services thereby reducing the cost of obtaining these services. Currently the NBEC manages life, dental, health and vision insurance benefit programs; provides data processing services through its Northwest Ohio Computer Association (NWOCA) subsidiary; offers a Workers' Compensation Group Rating Program; assists in the preparation of financial reports; offers inservice training sessions to employees of its member districts; and provides fiscal agency services to other cooperative purchasing programs. About CEAI CEAI is a global information technology services and consulting company focused on helping its clients implement e-business solutions timely and cost-effectively. CEAI has hundreds of public sector and commercial clients located in over 9 countries including the United States, Canada, United Kingdom and Australia. CEAI is an Oracle Certified Partner and a Sakai Commercial Affiliate. More than 250 members belong to CEAI, including Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the City of Cleveland, Portland Public Schools, AmTrust Bank, the University of Montana, The Hong Kong Institute of Education,The University of Michigan, and Xerox. For more about CEAI, see www.campuseai.org. # # # CEAI is a global information technology services and consulting company focused on helping its members and clients implement e-business solutions timely and cost-effectively. For more about CEAI, see http://www.campuseai.org. End
|
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
