Open Source

EDUCAUSE Library Items for Open Source

The Evolving LMS Market, Part I and Part II

December 21, 2010

In this post,the author discusses what the data are telling us so far about the recent shifts in the market, describe how colleges and universities come to decide that they need to go to market f…

A sustainable future for open textbooks? The Flat World Knowledge story

August 3, 2010

Authors John L. Hilton III and David A. Wiley discuss the concern many college students and their families have a=about the high costs of textbooks. E–books have been proposed as one potential …

Google OAuth & Federated Login Research

March 18, 2010

This site contains public information from Google that is shared with open source communities working on projects in the identity space. To be notified of new posts to this site, or changes, plea…

Open Courseware in the Liberal Arts

March 23, 2010

Saint Michael's College thinks persuading its faculty to use free courseware from peer institutions could improve its liberal arts curriculum. …

Open Source, Why or Why Not?

February 11, 2010

Unicon conducted a market research session at the EDUCAUSE Annual conference on Nov. 4, 2009, in which participants were invited to discuss why their institution has or has not adopted open sourc…

Cyberinfrastructure Software Sustainability and Reusability: Preliminary report from an NSF-funded workshop held 27 & 28 March 2009

March 4, 2010

The National Science Foundation’s strategy for 21st century innovation depends on rapid creation ofsoftware to enable scientific discovery. The NSF workshop report “Planning for Cyberinfrastr…

A Survey of the Scholarly Journals Using Open Journal Systems

March 4, 2010

The authors, Brian D. Edgar and John Willinsky, implemented a survey of 998 scholarly journals that use Open Journal Systems (OJS), an open source journal software platform, captures the characte…

The Meaning of Open

December 21, 2009

A blog entry from Google executive, Jonathan Rosenberg, Senior Vice President of Product Management on the meaning on "Open".   A b…

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. …

Open Source Learning Management Systems

December 15, 2009

The evolving technologies committee is charged with identifying and monitoring evolving technologies and their impact on higher education institutions. This submission is on Open Source Learning …