Open Source - 517 Resources

Overview
Publications (133)
Presentations (105)
Podcasts (47)
Blogs (232)

Overview

Open Source Software (OSS) and Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) has deep roots in academia. With the birth of the internet, open source projects have grown in remarkable ways. The resources that follow later on this page highlight sources of interest to educators and those serving higher education. They include references of both the cautious and the committed.

Other activities of direct interest to higher ed includes:

The UK JISC has also created, OSS Watch. The United Nations has created theInternational Open Source Network (who are looking for contributors for their section on education) and the UNESCO Free Software Portal. Both house information regarding education. APC.org has complied a nice list of open source resources as well.

http://www.ossite.org/about_sigossee/

http://www.oss4lib.org/

1) In general, open source refers to any program whose source code is made available for use or modification as users or other developers see fit. (Historically, the makers of proprietary software have generally not made source code available.) Open source software is usually developed as a public collaboration and made freely available. <p> 2) Open Source is a certification mark owned by the Open Source Initiative (OSI). Developers of software that is intended to be freely shared and possibly improved and redistributed by others can use the Open Source trademark if their distribution terms conform to the OSI's Open Source Definition. To summarize, the Definition model of distribution terms require that: <br> -The software being distributed must be redistributed to anyone else without any restriction <br> -The source code must be made available (so that the receiving party will be able to improve or modify it) <br> -The license can require improved versions of the software to carry a different name or version from the original software

Publications (133)

EDUCAUSE publications address a diverse range of professional challenges in higher education IT, from updates on current developments to explorations of important overarching issues. Listed below are the full range of research, reports and other publications that EDUCAUSE and its members have written about Open Source.

Item ID	Title	Resource Category	Pub Date	Views
EQM0926	Is There Such a Thing as Free Software? The Pros and Cons of Open-Source Software Thomas Trappler Articles, Papers, and Reports	EDUCAUSE Quarterly	07/30/2009	3,782
ERM0965	What Technology? Reflections on Evolving Services Sharon Collins Articles, Papers, and Reports	EDUCAUSE Review	10/30/2009	667
EQM0921	Looking at IT Through a New Lens: Achieving Cost Savings in a Fiscally Challenging Time George F. Claffey, Jr. Articles, Papers, and Reports	EDUCAUSE Quarterly	07/30/2009	1,077
ERM0955	Sustainable Communities for Software: Variations on a Theme Robert H. McDonald Articles, Papers, and Reports	EDUCAUSE Review	09/04/2009	355
EQM0824	Open Source Software in Education Shaheen Lakhan and Kavita Jhunjhunwala Articles, Papers, and Reports	EDUCAUSE Quarterly	05/05/2008	14,363
PUB7202	The Tower and the Cloud: Higher Education in the Age of Cloud Computing Richard N. Katz and Diana G. Oblinger Books and Monographs	EDUCAUSE Publications	10/20/2008	1,992
ERS0907	New Directions in Federation Gerry Gebel Articles, Papers, and Reports	ECAR	11/16/2009	647
EQM0837	Moving to Moodle: Reflections Two Years Later Tracy Chao Articles, Papers, and Reports	EDUCAUSE Quarterly	08/04/2008	9,154
ERM0914	The Textbook That Is Truly Free Robert Beezer Articles, Papers, and Reports	EDUCAUSE Review	01/16/2009	2,764
DEC0801	Virtual Worlds in Education Sharon Collins, Kelvin Bentley, and Anthony D. Conto Articles, Papers, and Reports	EDUCAUSE Committees	10/17/2008	1,140
ERM0916	Online Textbooks Deliver Timely, Real-World Content Articles, Papers, and Reports	EDUCAUSE Review	01/16/2009	2,732
ERM09117	Open Source: Narrowing the Divide between Education, Business, and Community Jim Whitehurst Articles, Papers, and Reports	EDUCAUSE Review	01/16/2009	3,156
CSD2620	Open source collaboration: Two cases in the U.S. public sector Michael P. Hamel and Charles M. Schweik Articles, Papers, and Reports	Community Recommendation	01/29/2009	237
ECS0803	Reforming IT Governance at Berkeley: Introducing an Enterprise Perspective to a Decentralized Organization Donald Z. Spicer and Judith A. Pirani Articles, Papers, and Reports	ECAR	07/25/2008	1,511
ERB0815	Happy Families, Good Fences, and Winning IT Collaborations Judith A. Pirani and Toby D. Sitko Articles, Papers, and Reports	ECAR	07/22/2008	2,557
ECS0804	Queensland University of Technology: Three Generations of IT Governance (and Counting) Judith A. Pirani and Gail Salaway Articles, Papers, and Reports	ECAR	07/25/2008	1,036
ERB0719	Next Generation Administrative Systems: Philosophy, Principles, and Technology Richard Spencer and Ted Dodds Articles, Papers, and Reports	ECAR	09/11/2007	8,068
CSD5502	Opening Up Education: The Collective Advancement of Education through Open Technology, Open Content, and Open Knowledge Toru Iiyoshi and M. S. Vijay Kumar Books and Monographs	Community Recommendation	09/16/2008	1,002
ERB0810	Recasting the Centralization-Decentralization Debate: Advancing the Innovation Support Cycle Lawrence W. Frederick Articles, Papers, and Reports	ECAR	05/13/2008	5,229
ERS0801	IT Engagement in Research: A View of Medical School Practice Mark R. Nelson Articles, Papers, and Reports	ECAR	01/23/2008	2,701
ERB0713	IT Collaboration: A Preview of Findings from the 2007 ECAR Study Philip J. Goldstein Articles, Papers, and Reports	ECAR	06/19/2007	4,955
ECM0801	IT Engagement in Research: A View of Medical School Practice Roadmap Bob Albrecht and Judith A. Pirani Articles, Papers, and Reports	ECAR	01/23/2008	871
CSD5388	Free and Open Source Options for Creating Database-Driven Subject Guides Edward M. Corrado and Kathryn A. Frederick Articles, Papers, and Reports	Community Recommendation	03/28/2008	810
CSD5394	A Bridge Between Blackboard and Open Source? Andrew Guess Articles, Papers, and Reports	Community Recommendation	07/15/2008	884
CSD5484	Free digital texts begin to challenge costly college textbooks in California Gale Holland Articles, Papers, and Reports	Community Recommendation	08/18/2008	384

Presentations (105)

Stepping away from the distractions of normal routine to meet with peers, share experiences, and learn together can be invaluable. EDUCAUSE places great emphasis on the face-to-face meeting experience, offering you numerous opportunities throughout the year to gather with colleagues - from small regional events and special topic meetings to large, national conferences covering the full spectrum of roles and issues important to higher education. For more information on EDUCAUSE conferences and seminars, please see our Frequently Asked Questions page. Listed below is the full range of presentations EDUCAUSE and its members tagged with Open Source

Item ID	Title	Resource Category	Pub Date	Views
CAMP093_173560	The Identity Services Summit in a Nutshell Presentations and Seminars	EDUCAUSE Grant Programs (CAMP)	06/13/2009	123
E08_47556	Deploying an Open Source, Online Evaluation System: Multiple Experiences Lisa Emery, Tom Head, Aaron Zeckoski, and Ellen Yu Borkowski Presentations/Speeches	EDUCAUSE Annual	10/31/2008	825
E08_47557	Transitioning Learning Management Systems: Making the Move at the Enterprise Level Nancy J. O'Laughlin and Ellen Yu Borkowski Presentations/Speeches	EDUCAUSE Annual	10/29/2008	440
E08_47563	The Community Source Model: Promise or Peril for Higher Ed? Brad Wheeler and Adrian Sannier Presentations/Speeches	EDUCAUSE Annual	10/29/2008	617
E08_47728	The 2008 Campus Computing Survey Kenneth C. Green Presentations/Speeches	EDUCAUSE Annual	10/29/2008	514
E08_47793	Cloud Computing Made Simple and Affordable: Using the Virtual Computing Lab (VCL) to Provide an Effective, Powerful, and Economical Rich Services Environment Henry E. Schaffer, John Savage, Mladen A. Vouk, Sarah R. Stein, Aaron Peeler, Sharon P. Pitt, and Samuel F. Averitt Presentations/Speeches	EDUCAUSE Annual	10/28/2008	1,886
NC09_48277	Virtualization with Xen Matthew Gracie Presentations/Speeches	NERCOMP	03/11/2009	464
NC09_48310	Moving to Open-Source Identity Management with MACE Grouper, Shibboleth, and OpenRegistry James Cramton and Benjamin Oshrin Presentations/Speeches	NERCOMP	03/10/2009	702
SERC09_173259	Leveraging Open Source for a Sustainable Learning Management System Presentations and Seminars	Southeast Regional	06/05/2009	114
E08_178310	Implementing Moodle at Louisiana State University Presentations and Seminars	EDUCAUSE Annual	10/30/2008	72
CYB09_179766	Intrusion Detection: Getting to Know Bro Presentations and Seminars	Cybersecurity Summit	09/14/2009	75
LIVE0821	Opening Up Education: The Collective Advancement of Education through Open Technology, Open Content, and Open Knowledge M. S. Vijay Kumar Presentations/Speeches	Web Seminars EDUCAUSE	10/17/2008	642
E08_47595	SOA Built on Open Source Web Service Technologies Wil Johnson and Andrew Bucior Presentations/Speeches	EDUCAUSE Annual	10/30/2008	402
E08_47591	REPLAY: An Integrated and Open Solution to Produce, Handle, and Distribute Audiovisual Lecture Recordings Olaf A. Schulte Presentations/Speeches	EDUCAUSE Annual	10/30/2008	556
ENT006	Community Source Software: The Beginning of the End, or the End of the Beginning? Richard Spencer, Brad Wheeler, and Laura McCain Patterson Presentations/Speeches	Enterprise Technology	05/28/2008	327
WRC08063	An Open Source LMS for a Mission-Critical, Enterprise-Level Application: Are We There Yet? Wen Hao Chuang and Kevin Kelly Presentations/Speeches	Western Regional conferences	03/31/2008	1,604
EDU07254	The 2007 Campus Computing Survey Kenneth C. Green Presentations/Speeches	EDUCAUSE Annual	10/23/2007	992
ECR0702	Multi-Institutional IT Collaboration Philip J. Goldstein Presentations/Speeches	ECAR	06/12/2007	2,622
ECR0704	Human Futures for Technology and Education Michael Wesch Presentations/Speeches	ECAR	06/12/2007	5,250
EDU07291	Implementing, Supporting, and Maintaining Sakai Lance Speelmon Presentations/Speeches	EDUCAUSE Annual	10/23/2007	732
ECR0517	The Auditor’s Dilemma: Audit Issues for Higher Education in the Information Age Richard N. Katz Presentations/Speeches	ECAR	05/23/2006	3,572
NLI0312	How (and Why) to Listen to "Heavy Metal": IMS, OKI and other standards and specification projects M. S. Vijay Kumar, Phillip D. Long and Edward C.T. Walker Presentations/Speeches	ELI Meetings	01/01/2003	6,640
POL07002	The Year in Review Tracy Mitrano Presentations/Speeches	Policy (Archives)	05/16/2007	2,246
WRC07055	CMC and Whitman: Migration to Sakai and Beyond Micheal M. Malsed, Michael Osterman, Keiko Pitter, Benjamin Royas, Melissa Zhuo Presentations/Speeches	Western Regional conferences	05/09/2007	1,960
EDU03139	Chandler: A Collaborative Open Source Initiative for Higher Education Mitchell Kapor, Chao Lam, Jack McCredie, and Oren Sreebny Presentations/Speeches	EDUCAUSE Annual	01/01/2003	5,083

Podcasts (47)

Name	Views	Post date
E08 Podcast: An Interview with Allan Williams - Head of Systems and Desktop Services at Australian National University Play \| Show Notes \| Download (13.04 MB audio/mpeg)	141	06/15/2009
Podcast: John Maeda - Open Source Administration Play \| Show Notes \| Download (47.24 MB audio/mpeg)	448	03/20/2009
CNI Podcast: An Interview with Martin Ramsey on Open Source Collaboration Play \| Show Notes \| Download (11.59 MB audio/mpeg)	442	02/03/2009
CNI Podcast: Pliny - A Tool for the Digital Humanities Play \| Show Notes \| Download (16.45 MB audio/mpeg)	368	01/13/2009
CNI Podcast: WebAnywhere - A Screen Reader On-the-Go Play \| Show Notes \| Download (13.69 MB audio/mpeg)	491	01/12/2009
CNI Podcast: Archon - The Simple Archival Information System - An Interview with Chris Prom Play \| Show Notes \| Download (9.09 MB audio/mpeg)	589	12/19/2008
EDUCAUSE Now - Show #10 - Vint Cerf Interview, Washington Policy Update, Year-End Review Play \| Show Notes \| Download (30.86 MB audio/mpeg)	723	12/11/2008
E08 Podcast: The Community Source Model: Promise or Peril for Higher Ed? Play \| Show Notes \| Download (32.21 MB audio/mpeg)	502	11/17/2008
Podcast: Community Source Software: The Beginning of the End, or the End of the Beginning? Play \| Show Notes \| Download (35.4 MB audio/mpeg)	1,237	06/05/2008
CNI Podcast: An Interview with Julian Lombardi, Executive Director of the Open Croquet Consortium Play \| Show Notes \| Download (13.98 MB audio/mpeg)	852	01/10/2008
CNI Podcast: An Interview with Alex Chapin, Principal Curricular Technologist at Middlebury College Play \| Show Notes \| Download (8.92 MB audio/mpeg)	371	01/07/2008
E07 Podcast: An Interview with Mara Hancock, ETS Associate Director of Learning Systems at UC Berkely. Play \| Show Notes \| Download (15.82 MB audio/mpeg)	503	01/07/2008
E07 Podcast: An Interview with Mark Notess, Development Manager & Usability Specialist at Indiana University Play \| Show Notes \| Download (10.79 MB audio/mpeg)	524	12/18/2007
E07 Podcast: An Interview with Ulrich Rauch, Director of Arts Instructional Support & IT at The University of British Columbia Play \| Show Notes \| Download (19.28 MB audio/mpeg)	1,199	12/18/2007
E07 Podcast: The e-Framework for Education and Research Play \| Show Notes \| Download (28.43 MB audio/mpeg)	426	11/27/2007
E07 Podcast: The 2007 Campus Computing Survey Play \| Show Notes \| Download (24.92 MB audio/mpeg)	770	11/27/2007
E07 Podcast: An Interview with Per Wising Play \| Show Notes \| Download (5.45 MB audio/mpeg)	585	11/12/2007
E07 Podcast: An Interview with Martin Ringle, Chief Technology Office for Reed College Play \| Show Notes \| Download (24.36 MB audio/mpeg)	689	11/07/2007
Podcast: Service Oriented Architecture Play \| Show Notes \| Download (39.95 MB audio/mpeg)	4,224	08/29/2007
An Interview with Georgetown's Marjory Blumenthal Play \| Show Notes \| Download (12.16 MB audio/mpeg)	4,915	04/27/2006
An interview with Penn State's Nancy Eaton Play \| Show Notes \| Download (10.1 MB audio/mpeg)	5,209	04/27/2006
An Interview with the University of California's Terry Ryan and Luc Declerck Play \| Show Notes \| Download (17.66 MB audio/mpeg)	4,683	04/14/2006
An Interview with the Mellon Foundation's Ira Fuchs Play \| Show Notes \| Download (21.51 MB audio/mpeg)	4,741	04/14/2006
An Interview with Indiana's Brad Wheeler Play \| Show Notes \| Download (6.03 MB audio/mpeg)	4,547	04/14/2006
An Interview with Cornell's Paul Ginsparg Play \| Show Notes \| Download (46.96 MB audio/mpeg)	4,996	04/14/2006

Blogs (232)

EDUCAUSE hosts a number of blogs for its members. To view a list of all our blogs, click here.

Title	Blogger	Posted	Views
Open Source in Education	Anthony M. DiSanza, Innovativ Consulting Partners, LLC	09/18/2009	108
OpenEd 2009: Free, open, libre, gratis	Catherine Howell, La Trobe University	07/26/2009	596
Summer CAMP Middleware Workshops: Register Before May 18 for Low Rates	Colleen Luckett, EDUCAUSE	05/13/2009	340
Open Source Student Housing Software?	Dave Mackey, Philadelphia Biblical University	03/19/2009	396
Tune In October 17: Opening Up Education	Peggy Kurkowski, EDUCAUSE	10/13/2008	351
EDUCAUSE Involvement Opportunity: New Openness Constituent Group	Colleen Luckett, EDUCAUSE	10/09/2008	302
Oblinger and Lombardi Contribute Chapter to New MIT Book on Openness	Colleen Luckett, EDUCAUSE	10/09/2008	399
Latest EDUCAUSE Quarterly Now Available Online	Colleen Luckett, EDUCAUSE	08/05/2008	660
"Open Source Reality": Douglas Rushkoff Examines the Effects of Open Source	Anna Gould, EDUCAUSE	07/01/2008	576
New EDUCAUSE Quarterly Reports on Top Higher Ed IT Issues	Colleen Luckett, EDUCAUSE	05/09/2008	864
2008 EDUCAUSE Midwest Regional Closing Session: Leading Ahead of the Curves by Brad Wheeler	Lida L. Larsen, EDUCAUSE	04/15/2008	337
Flickering (or is that Flickring?)	William J. Allen, Arkansas State University	02/02/2008	399
E07 Podcast: An Interview with Michael Korcuska, Executive Director of the Sakai Foundation.	Gerry Bayne, EDUCAUSE	01/07/2008	234
Poke 1.0 afterthoughts	Catherine Howell, La Trobe University	12/04/2007	1,264
Spock's Risky Take on Trust, Privacy, and Identity Management Online	Catherine Howell, La Trobe University	12/04/2007	1,928
Community Development	Stuart Yeates, University of Oxford	08/02/2007	3,301
The quest for sustainability in open courseware	Paul Trafford, University of Oxford	07/15/2007	4,266
Bodington gets their open source on	Stuart Yeates, University of Oxford	10/11/2006	3,592
AOC Nilta, BECTA and Open Source	Stuart Yeates, University of Oxford	09/18/2006	4,270
Call for book chapters on Open Source	Stuart Yeates, University of Oxford	09/15/2006	3,557
Sun's DTrace wins award form the Wall Street Journal	Stuart Yeates, University of Oxford	09/12/2006	3,688
The difference between standards and programming languages	Stuart Yeates, University of Oxford	09/11/2006	6,178
Open source on the education agenda	Stuart Yeates, University of Oxford	09/06/2006	3,385
Google releases Tesseract OCR as open source	Stuart Yeates, University of Oxford	09/05/2006	5,446
GPL to be tested in court in Israel	Stuart Yeates, University of Oxford	09/05/2006	3,683

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