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The Community Source Model: Promise or Peril for Higher Ed?

Title:The Community Source Model: Promise or Peril for Higher Ed? (ID: E08_47563)
Author(s):Bradley Wheeler (Indiana University) and Adrian Sannier (Arizona State University)
Topics:Applications Development, Community Source, EDUCAUSE 2008, EDUCAUSE2008, Enterprise Applications and Solutions, Enterprise Information Systems, Featured Speaker, Open Source, Open Source Software (OSS)
Origin:Annual Conferences (10/29/2008)
Type:Presentations and Seminars
Abstract:

This session will compare and contrast the community source model with the commercial software model in higher education. Two presenters with expertise on both sides of the issue will discuss the relative merits of each model as the basis for implementing the enterprise systems (financial, student information, contract and grant, and teaching and learning) that underlie the essential operations of most higher education institutions.

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