Open Source

EDUCAUSE Library Items for Open Source

The SEA Framework: An Open-Source Framework for Building Custom Content Authoring Tools

October 19, 2005 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2005 Annual Conference

The Learning Solutions group at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has developed and will release as open source a simple editing/authoring framework for building specialized authoring tools that …

Higher Education and the Knowledge Economy - Sponsored by Zimbra

October 19, 2005 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2005 Annual Conference

Although the knowledge economy should be good news for higher education, colleges and universities now confront a variety of technical, legal, and cultural forces that threaten to relegate them to …

IBM Opens Research to Academia

January 1, 2005

IBM is extending an academic outreach program to give universities access to some of its cutting-edge research free of charge. IBM is extending an acad…

Creating a Collaborative Information Technology Environment for Higher Education

January 1, 2002

Fuchs discusses the impediments to collaboration as well as remarkable current efforts that might point the way to the future of information technology in higher education. He indicates that "…

A Home-Grown, Open Source Approach to Self-Service Network Registration and Management

March 8, 2005 | A session at the NERCOMP Annual Conference 2005

Williams College has developed a set of tools for registering and managing computers on its network. The system is geared to self-service and ease of use. The development tools are all open source …

Windows to WebDAV: A File Server Case Study

January 12, 2005 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference 2005

Migrating to open source servers provides opportunities and challenges. The rationale, migration strategy, and lessons learned in migrating a small department server from a Windows 2000 Active Dire…

Shibboleth: Molecules, Music, and Middleware

January 14, 2005 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference 2005

The Pennsylvania State University is using the Shibboleth package, an open-source, Web-based, interinstitutional authorization system, to deliver academic and student-life online services. Learn ab…

Open Source Software: Risks and Rewards

November 16, 2004

Presentation at the November 2004 ECAR Symposium. Open-source software (OSS) is not a fad—it is here to stay. While OSS provides additional choices and may lower software development and deploy…

Federated Security: The Shibboleth Approach

January 1, 2004

Current Issues Federated Security: The Shibboleth Approach The open-source Shibboleth System extends Web-based applications and identity management for secure access to resources among mult…

The 2004 Campus Computing Survey

October 20, 2004 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2004 Annual Conference

The Campus Computing Project will present data from the 2004 survey on the role of information technology in American higher education. Topics include user support, e-commerce, wireless networks, s…