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Overview

Open Source Software (OSS) and Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) has deep roots in academia. With the birth of the internet, open source projects have grown in remarkable ways. The resources that follow later on this page highlight sources of interest to educators and those serving higher education. They include references of both the cautious and the committed.

Other activities of direct interest to higher ed includes:

The UK JISC has also created, OSS Watch. The United Nations has created theInternational Open Source Network (who are looking for contributors for their section on education) and the UNESCO Free Software Portal. Both house information regarding education. APC.org has complied a nice list of open source resources as well.

http://www.ossite.org/about_sigossee/

http://www.oss4lib.org/

1) In general, open source refers to any program whose source code is made available for use or modification as users or other developers see fit. (Historically, the makers of proprietary software have generally not made source code available.) Open source software is usually developed as a public collaboration and made freely available. <p> 2) Open Source is a certification mark owned by the Open Source Initiative (OSI). Developers of software that is intended to be freely shared and possibly improved and redistributed by others can use the Open Source trademark if their distribution terms conform to the OSI's Open Source Definition. To summarize, the Definition model of distribution terms require that: <br> -The software being distributed must be redistributed to anyone else without any restriction <br> -The source code must be made available (so that the receiving party will be able to improve or modify it) <br> -The license can require improved versions of the software to carry a different name or version from the original software


Publications (15)

EDUCAUSE publications address a diverse range of professional challenges in higher education IT, from updates on current developments to explorations of important overarching issues. Listed below are the full range of research, reports and other publications that EDUCAUSE and its members have written about Open Source.

Item ID Title Resource Category Pub Date Views Rankingsort icon
EQM0926
Is There Such a Thing as Free Software? The Pros and Cons of Open-Source Software
07/30/2009 3,821
 
ERM0965
What Technology? Reflections on Evolving Services
10/30/2009 721
 
EQM0921
Looking at IT Through a New Lens: Achieving Cost Savings in a Fiscally Challenging Time
07/30/2009 1,083
 
ERM0955
Sustainable Communities for Software: Variations on a Theme
09/04/2009 356
 
ERS0907
New Directions in Federation
11/16/2009 686
 
ERB0810
Recasting the Centralization-Decentralization Debate: Advancing the Innovation Support Cycle
05/13/2008 5,237
 
ERS0801
IT Engagement in Research: A View of Medical School Practice
01/23/2008 2,702
 
CSD5501
Blackboard Customers Consider Alternatives
09/09/2008 913
 
ERS0704
IT Collaboration: Multi-Institutional Partnerships to Develop, Manage, and Operate IT Resources
06/28/2007 5,862
 
ERB0812
Large-Scale Open Source E-Learning Systems at Open University UK
06/10/2008 3,589
 
ERB0811
Dynamics of Supporting Sakai Through Local and Global Collaboration
05/27/2008 3,942
 
ERS0605
IT Engagement in Research: A Baseline Study
08/28/2006 3,753
 
CSD3358
Trend: Content Copyright, the Commons, and the C Generation
01/01/2004 2,804
 
CSD3392
The Role of Intellectual Property in Open Source Software
01/01/2004 2,601
 
CSD5739
Open Source Collaboration in Higher Education: Guidelines and Report of the Licensing and Policy Framework Summit for Software Sharing in Higher Education
03/15/2007 40
 

Presentations (3)

Stepping away from the distractions of normal routine to meet with peers, share experiences, and learn together can be invaluable. EDUCAUSE places great emphasis on the face-to-face meeting experience, offering you numerous opportunities throughout the year to gather with colleagues - from small regional events and special topic meetings to large, national conferences covering the full spectrum of roles and issues important to higher education. For more information on EDUCAUSE conferences and seminars, please see our Frequently Asked Questions page. Listed below is the full range of presentations EDUCAUSE and its members tagged with Open Source

Item ID Title Pub Date Views Rankingsort icon
E08_178310
Implementing Moodle at Louisiana State University
 10/30/2008 72
 
CYB09_179766
Intrusion Detection: Getting to Know Bro
 09/14/2009 75
 
NCP08060
An Outsourced Open Source LMS and a Pot of Gold?
 03/10/2008 2,214
 

Podcasts (47)

Name Views Post datesort icon
E08 Podcast: An Interview with Allan Williams - Head of Systems and Desktop Services at Australian National University
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 141 06/15/2009
Podcast: John Maeda - Open Source Administration
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 449 03/20/2009
CNI Podcast: An Interview with Martin Ramsey on Open Source Collaboration
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 442 02/03/2009
CNI Podcast: Pliny - A Tool for the Digital Humanities
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 368 01/13/2009
CNI Podcast: WebAnywhere - A Screen Reader On-the-Go
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 495 01/12/2009
CNI Podcast: Archon - The Simple Archival Information System - An Interview with Chris Prom
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 589 12/19/2008
EDUCAUSE Now - Show #10 - Vint Cerf Interview, Washington Policy Update, Year-End Review
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 723 12/11/2008
E08 Podcast: The Community Source Model: Promise or Peril for Higher Ed?
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 502 11/17/2008
Podcast: Community Source Software: The Beginning of the End, or the End of the Beginning?
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 1,237 06/05/2008
CNI Podcast: An Interview with Julian Lombardi, Executive Director of the Open Croquet Consortium
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 853 01/10/2008
CNI Podcast: An Interview with Alex Chapin, Principal Curricular Technologist at Middlebury College
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 371 01/07/2008
E07 Podcast: An Interview with Mara Hancock, ETS Associate Director of Learning Systems at UC Berkely.
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 503 01/07/2008
E07 Podcast: An Interview with Mark Notess, Development Manager & Usability Specialist at Indiana University
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 525 12/18/2007
E07 Podcast: An Interview with Ulrich Rauch, Director of Arts Instructional Support & IT at The University of British Columbia
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 1,199 12/18/2007
E07 Podcast: The e-Framework for Education and Research
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 426 11/27/2007
E07 Podcast: The 2007 Campus Computing Survey
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 770 11/27/2007
E07 Podcast: An Interview with Per Wising
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 585 11/12/2007
E07 Podcast: An Interview with Martin Ringle, Chief Technology Office for Reed College
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 689 11/07/2007
Podcast: Service Oriented Architecture
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 4,224 08/29/2007
An Interview with Georgetown's Marjory Blumenthal
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 4,915 04/27/2006
An interview with Penn State's Nancy Eaton
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 5,209 04/27/2006
An Interview with the University of California's Terry Ryan and Luc Declerck
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 4,683 04/14/2006
An Interview with the Mellon Foundation's Ira Fuchs
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 4,741 04/14/2006
An Interview with Indiana's Brad Wheeler
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 4,548 04/14/2006
An Interview with Cornell's Paul Ginsparg
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 4,996 04/14/2006

Blogs (232)

EDUCAUSE hosts a number of blogs for its members. To view a list of all our blogs, click here.

Title Blogger Postedsort icon Views
Open Forum Europe acts as an umbrella for open source groups at BETT Stuart Yeates, University of Oxford 01/13/2006 3,842
Call For Papers: Open Source and Sustainability Stuart Yeates, University of Oxford 01/10/2006 3,690
Switching to Windows: Not as easy as you think Stuart Yeates, University of Oxford 01/09/2006 3,601
Open source in the political arena Stuart Yeates, University of Oxford 01/06/2006 3,696
Regulatory guidance over deployment of open source software Stuart Yeates, University of Oxford 01/03/2006 5,261
Munich progresses towards open standards and open source Stuart Yeates, University of Oxford 01/03/2006 3,134
Survey reveals that most open source developers not open source bigots Stuart Yeates, University of Oxford 12/25/2005 4,120
Open Source Miscommunication Stuart Yeates, University of Oxford 12/21/2005 3,781
OSS Watch releases open source documentation document Stuart Yeates, University of Oxford 12/21/2005 3,851
ZMag interview Richard Stallman Stuart Yeates, University of Oxford 12/20/2005 3,733
New open source consortia Stuart Yeates, University of Oxford 12/20/2005 3,522
Conference: Open Source and Sustainability Stuart Yeates, University of Oxford 12/15/2005 3,642
Going open source for all the wrong reasons Stuart Yeates, University of Oxford 12/05/2005 5,706
Randy Metcalfe and Vijay Kumar on Open Source Matt Pasiewicz, EDUCAUSE 12/02/2005 3,326
"Finding Open Options," a thesis by Karin van den Berg Stuart Yeates, University of Oxford 12/01/2005 5,491
Register parody(?) of open source Stuart Yeates, University of Oxford 12/01/2005 2,889
Surprises from the Desktop Linux survey Stuart Yeates, University of Oxford 11/30/2005 3,935
Microsoft caught asking UN to remove free and open source references from Vienna Conclusions Stuart Yeates, University of Oxford 11/28/2005 2,991
Why aren't people publicising their open source deployments? Stuart Yeates, University of Oxford 11/28/2005 3,281
UAE censors open content hoster du jour Stuart Yeates, University of Oxford 11/28/2005 3,824
GCC 4.1 released Stuart Yeates, University of Oxford 11/25/2005 3,340
Oxford University opt for a library system based on open source Stuart Yeates, University of Oxford 11/25/2005 6,054
Microsoft Office file format standardisation may not be all it seems Stuart Yeates, University of Oxford 11/24/2005 3,911
Interesting coverage of Sun's Global Education Learning Community (GELC) Matt Pasiewicz, EDUCAUSE 11/23/2005 3,516
SchoolTool: Open Source School Administration Software Stuart Yeates, University of Oxford 11/22/2005 9,664
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