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Title: What surprised you most about using Sakai?
An interview with Jeffrey Pomerantz, Ph.D. Associate Professor in the School of Information and Library Science
I think my biggest surprise when I first started using Sakai was what an easy learning curve it was, honestly.
I've been using Blackboard since I was a grad student so I'd been using that for a long time.
Switching over to Sakai took very little effort.
And that's actually, I think, a major selling point.
It does pretty much all of the same things that the other tools that we're used to -- like Blackboard -- do.
Does them a little differently. Things are in different places.
But because it's similar, the learning curve is very low.
It's a very easy tool to make that switch.
So, that was, I think, the biggest surprise. I expected
that an open source project versus a commercial product
would address LMSs really very differently and it would be a completely different architecture and it isn't.
And I think that's a positive thing.
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