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EDUCAUSE Library Items for Open Source Software (OSS)
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From Blackboard to Sakai: The Who, What, Where, and Why
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February 25, 2009
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A session at the EDUCAUSE Southwest Regional Conference 2009
After identifying Sakai, an open-source solution, as its next collaboration and courseware management platform, Texas State began the process of transitioning the campus to the new environment. The…
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Virtualization with Xen
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March 11, 2009
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A session at the NERCOMP Annual Conference 2009
The Xen virtualization framework is a free, open-source product for running multiple operating systems concurrently on commodity hardware. This presentation will serve as an introduction to virtual…
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Beyond Access
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February 2, 2009
In an interview, Vijay Kumar, MIT's senior associate dean and director of the Office of Educational Innovation and Technology, discusses how open education reveals and shares pedagogy along …
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Open source collaboration: Two cases in the U.S. public sector
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January 29, 2009
Globally, there is an emergence of open source consortia focused on the sharing of resources and code, and a desire to promote an open source approach generally. In this paper, we describe our fi…
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Open Source: Narrowing the Divide between Education, Business, and Community
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January 16, 2009
© 2009 Jim Whitehurst. The text of this article is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 3.0 License ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/ …
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Taking a critical look at common support scenarios for open source software
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November 15, 2008
Deciding whether to go with a particular open source product is an exercise in risk management: understanding the risks of your possible actions and choices, calculating when a certain level of r…
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The Community Source Model: Promise or Peril for Higher Ed?
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October 29, 2008
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A session at the EDUCAUSE 2008 Annual Conference
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 r…
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Transitioning Learning Management Systems: Making the Move at the Enterprise Level
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October 29, 2008
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A session at the EDUCAUSE 2008 Annual Conference
Maryland and Delaware have each had to transition to a new enterprise learning management system. Maryland moved from two separate systems to a single commercial system, while Delaware moved from o…
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Deploying an Open Source, Online Evaluation System: Multiple Experiences
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October 31, 2008
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A session at the EDUCAUSE 2008 Annual Conference
Cambridge, Maryland, Michigan, and Virginia Tech are collaborating on an open source, online evaluation system integrated with Sakai. This panel will describe the collaborative development partners…
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The Tower and the Cloud: Higher Education in the Age of Cloud Computing
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October 20, 2008
The emergence of the networked information economy is unleashing two powerful forces. On one hand, easy access to high-speed networks is empowering individuals. People can now discover and consum…

















