If you want to experience the Sakai Collaborative and Learning Environment (CLE) for yourself, here's the opportunity you've been waiting for. Presented by Unicon, Academus® Open Campus is a web portal that brings Sakai together with Elluminate Live! and other vendor-specific solutions to provide an affordable, open-source alternative for course management.

Try out Sakai in a low-cost, real-world setting to create and manage courses, coordinate projects, collaborate on research, and more. Administrators can organize a formal Sakai pilot program without the typical time and resource allocation. Instructors and department heads can set up and manage classes or research projects independently.

Start with a smaller pilot project to evaluate your needs and measure results. Then expand, adding classes or departments, or go campus wide. Whether you are a university, community college, or K-12 institution, you can get up and running with Sakai quickly and easily for less than $200 for a 6-month subscription.

What's more, Elluminate Live! Lite Office is included, enabling you to integrate live, synchronous distance learning and collaboration into your courses. With Lite Office, you get a virtual office room where you can meet with students and collaborate with colleagues using two-way voice over the Internet, shared whiteboard and text chat.