Founded in 2005 Sakai provides a student-centered platform for learning. Sakai’s customizable interface enables development, delivery and management of courses, course content, and collaborative efforts. The Sakai Community develops and distributes the open-source Sakai CLE, an enterprise-ready collaboration and courseware management platform that provides users with a suite of learning, portfolio, library and project tools. Headquartered in Detroit Michigan, the company has more than 10 employees.

Sakai Project

Sakai might be called a Course Management System (CMS), a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) or Learning Management System (LMS) depending on the place it is used. The following are the features:

• Sakai is an adaptable, interoperable, reliable, and scalable platform for learning and collaboration.

• For coursework, Sakai provides features to supplement and enhance teaching and learning.

• For collaboration, Sakai has tools to help organize communication and collaborative work on campus and around the world.

• For portfolios, Sakai includes the Open Source Portfolio e-Portfolio system as a core part of the Sakai software.

• For integration to library resources, the Sakai library tools link library resources to Sakai.

Sakai is distributed as free and open source software under the Educational Community License. Sakai’s open approach allows institutions to deploy, host and modify the software in whatever manner best supports institutions skills, needs and goals. Sakai’s open development process allows local enhancements to be incorporated into future versions of the software.