What's Next? — The Sakai open academic environment

The Sakai CLE has always been more than just a Learning Management System. It is widely used by institutions to support many other forms of online collaboration, from the support of distributed research groups through student clubs and societies, to administrative bodies.

Ever since the Sakai was conceived in 2001-03, much has changed. Underpinning technology and architecture has continued to develop. There has been an explosion of what some call "the social web". To risk stating the obvious, we have also learned a lot more about what it means to learn, teach, and support research online in that period. We have far greater experience on which to base the planning and development of future software. A new community project, the Sakai Open Academic Environment (formerly Sakai 3) is, at the time of writing, on a 12-month path of rapid development to address the communities evolving needs.

Chapter 17, The Sakai long term vision will explore these plans.