Open Source Software (OSS)

EDUCAUSE Library Items for Open Source Software (OSS)

Collaborative Open-Source Software: Panacea or Pipe Dream for Higher Education?

January 1, 2004

The speaker will examine the current trend toward collaborative open source software development (Sakai, Chandler, uPortal, etc.) in higher education, looking at issues critical to assessing the lo…

Digital Libraries with Greenstone: An Open Source Solution

January 1, 2004

Learn how the University of Chicago and Illinois Wesleyan University used free software to build online digital library collections. Explore how you can use open source software to build a digital …

Using Open Source for Strategic Advantage

January 1, 2004

What is open source and how can it used for strategic advantage? In this talk we will try to untangle the different senses of open source, consider some business and economic models for driving a…

How (and Why) to Listen to Heavy Metal: Participating in Standards Development Lets Higher Education Control its Destiny

January 1, 2003

One of the goals of the NLII is developing tools and standards to support new learning environments and creating market structures for the development of interactive learning materials. The NLII g…

The Importance of Open Source Software

January 1, 2002

Delivered at the Networking 2002 policy conference, Ms. Kunze's powerpoint presenatation provides the basics of Open Source Software, and its implications and policy issues for industry and hi…

"Open Source: Community, Collaboration, Commitment"

January 13, 2006

This is the podcast of the third general session of EDUCAUSE's 2006 Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference. This session was recorded on Thursday, January 12, 2006. The session featured panelists …