Open Source Software (OSS)

EDUCAUSE Library Items for Open Source Software (OSS)

The Move to Moodle

April 15, 2009 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Western Regional Conference 2009

Over the past two years, Lewis & Clark College has made the move from the WebCT learning management system to Moodle. This presentation will explore both the reasons we decided to move and what…

Moodle: Collaborative Development Across the Region or Country

March 11, 2009 | A session at the NERCOMP Annual Conference 2009

A group of NITLE schools using Moodle has been collaborating on Moodle development and support. The group has held two productive work sessions and two national Moodle meetings. This discussion wil…

Open Education: A New Paradigm

January 21, 2009

Throughout the world, the demand for educated professionals is growing faster than populations of people with the required skills, open education will help fill that gap. …

From Blackboard to Sakai: The Who, What, Where, and Why

February 25, 2009 | 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…

Virtualization with Xen

March 11, 2009 | 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…

Beyond Access

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 …

Open source collaboration: Two cases in the U.S. public sector

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…

Open Source: Narrowing the Divide between Education, Business, and Community

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/ …

Taking a critical look at common support scenarios for open source software

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…

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

October 29, 2008 | 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…