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EDUCAUSE Library Items for Open Source Software (OSS)
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Just Asking. . .
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December 22, 2009
I was talking with a favorite colleague recently about cloud computing, or, as he calls it, "cloud confusing." At some point our geeky conversation drifted to pondering the topic relati…
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What Technology? Reflections on Evolving Services
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October 30, 2009
© 2009 Sharon Collins and the 2009 EDUCAUSE Evolving Technologies Committee. The text of this article is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 License ( htt…
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Sustainable Communities for Software: Variations on a Theme
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September 4, 2009
© 2009 Robert H. McDonald. The text of this article is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License ( http://creativecommons.org/lic…
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Selecting and Implementing a Course Management System for Your Campus
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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,…
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UTORvpn: Secure Remote Access for the Masses
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November 4, 2009
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A session at the EDUCAUSE 2009 Annual Conference
The University of Toronto has developed and implemented a ubiquitous open-source VPN service based on SSL using OpenVPN. The service has over 3,500 active customers, with up to 50 simultaneous user…
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Assessment Management: Deploying a Simple, Local, and Collaborative Solution with WebLion
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November 4, 2009
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A session at the EDUCAUSE 2009 Annual Conference
This presentation will demonstrate how an inefficient paper-based process quickly became a streamlined assessment management system that can be queried to review progress on key learning outcomes. …
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Is There Such a Thing as Free Software? The Pros and Cons of Open-Source Software
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July 30, 2009
Key Takeaways When open-source software is effectively evaluated, deployed, and managed, it can serve as a viable alternative to proprietary software. Open-source software doesn’t alw…
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The Next Open Source Movement
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July 6, 2009
A university and a community college are first institutions to undertake large-scale installations of administrative software created by consortium and open to all. Is industry shake-up imminent?…
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Environmental Scan: What Technology Tools Work (and Don't Work)?
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June 16, 2009
Now that we have some idea of the use-case requirements and what functionality we need to address them, the group will review what's available in the open-source and vendor communities for sol…
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LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe)
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May 21, 2009
LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe), based at Stanford University Libraries, is an international community initiative that provides libraries with digital preservation tools and support so th…

















