One of my biggest concerns about the Sakai community from Day 1 has been the need to involve more teachers more directly in the design of the platform. I think that when people hear that they sometimes think of those painfully ineffective design-by-committee initiatives that universities always try and that never work. That’s not really what I had in mind. At the Amsterdam conference, I heard Michael Korcuska express my concern in a way that’s much more clear and effective than anything I’ve formulated on the topic.
He said the Sakai community needs a Product Manager role. And that’s exactly right. We need product managers, many of whom should be teachers.
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