Sakai is a community of academic institutions, commercial organizations and individuals who work together to develop a common Collaboration and Learning Environment. The Sakai CLE is a free, community source, educational software platform distributed under the Educational Community License. The Sakai CLE is used for teaching, research and collaboration. Systems of this type are also known as Course Management Systems, Learning Management Systems, or Virtual Learning Environments. The Sakai Project's software 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 September 2012, Sakai is estimated to be in production at over 300 institutions and being piloted by considerably more. A map showing many of these is available. Wikipedia [ - ]

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