Applications Development

EDUCAUSE Library Items for Applications Development

CHANGE: Migrating from a Legacy LMS to an Open-Source Moodle Platform

January 13, 2011 | A session at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference 2011

What special considerations should be taken when evaluating a transition to Moodle? Why should I consider managed open source? And is the cloud the right fit for my institution? These questions rep…

In Potential Blow to Open-Source Software, Mellon Foundation Closes Grant Program

January 6, 2010

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is eliminating a grant program that financed a series of high-profile university software projects and merging it into another program. …

Selecting and Implementing a Course Management System for Your Campus

August 5, 2009

The course management system has become an integral part of institutional technology and academic operations, such that institutions invest a significant amount of time and effort in identifying,…

7 Things You Should Know About Data Visualization II

August 3, 2009

Data visualization is the use of tools to represent data in the form of charts, maps, tag clouds, animations, or any graphical means that make content easier to understand. Graphic representation…

Course Views: A Scalable Approach to Providing Course-Based Access to Library Resources

March 30, 2009

The NCSU Libraries’ Course Views project, along with a locally developed widget web service, improves course-based access to library collections and services by dynamically generating library c…

Putting Public Service Learning on the Web

February 24, 2009 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Southwest Regional Conference 2009

Tulane University's Center for Public Service coordinates service-learning courses and experiences among students, faculty, and community partners. This session will describe how a homegrown a…

Teaching Nurse Anesthesia in a Second Life Operating Room Simulation

October 29, 2008 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2008 Annual Conference

An operating room simulation was developed in Second Life to teach KUMC Nurse Anesthesia students basic operating room procedures. This presentation will describe the design, development, usability…

Open Source Software in Education

May 5, 2008

© 2008 Shaheen E. Lakhan and Kavita Jhunjhunwala. The text of this article is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 license ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa…

An Open Source LMS for a Mission-Critical, Enterprise-Level Application: Are We There Yet?

April 1, 2008 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Western Regional Conference 2008

The open source learning management system has gradually reached maturity. In this session, we will share ideas and lessons learned about making open source LMS enterprise-ready. Currently SFSU has…

If You Build It, Will They Come? Reality-Based Emerging Services Planning for Millennials (Research-based)

January 30, 2008 | A session at the ELI Annual Meeting 2008

A team from the University of Guelph's Learning Commons will present the results of research that encourages a more user-focused approach to emerging services development. The research looks a…