Sakai and Open Source

In this 17 minute podcast, we feature an interview with Mara Hancock, Associate Director for UC Berkeley's Educational Technology Services department. Educational Technology Services promotes and supports the effective integration of technology in teaching, learning and communication at the University of California, Berkeley. We are dedicated to service, partnership, and innovation.

In this ten minute podcast, we feature an interview with Michael Korcuska, Executive Director of the Sakai Foundation. Sakai Foundation is a non-profit organization that supports the community and development of Sakai, a course management and collaboration system for higher education.

In this 12 minute podcast, we feature an interview with Mark Notess, Development Manager & Usability Specialist at Indiana University. He is involved in several online learning and research tool development projects including the Variations 3 Digital Music Library Project, and Integrating Licensed Library Resources with Sakai. He also co-authored an article with Lisa Lorenzen-Huber entitled, "Online Learning for Seniors: Barriers and Opportunities". He spoke with Carie Windham at the EDUCAUSE 2007 Annual Conference in Seattle, Washington.

In this 8-minute podcast, we feature an interview with Per Wising, Product Manager, Stockholm University. He discusses open source software development and the state of cyberinfrastructure in Sweden.

I've been reflecting recently on the subject of open courseware and, more specifically, OpenCourseWare following the keynote for the Sakai conference in Amsterdam delivered confidently and enthusiastically by Hal Abelson (a podcast is available). In this post I'll briefly recap some of the core aspects as I understand them and then go on to explore this area, based on personal experiences and ideas I've been formulating at Oxford.

In this 67 minute recording, I sit down with CNI's Cliff Lynch for a wide ranging discussion about interesting activities at CNI, gather some thoughts about large scale digitization projects, net neutrality, and microformats.  We'll hear about advances in the research community, talk about a number of federal policy issues, and we'll hear some thoughts about opportunity costs associated with decisions affecting the scholars and librarians of today.   We'll also chat a bit about NCSU's deployment of Endeca and the final report of UC's Bibliographic Services Task Force (PDF).


This interview is provided courtesy of CNI and was recorded at their 2006 Spring Task Force Meeting.  The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) is an organization dedicated to supporting the transformative promise of networked information technology for the advancement of scholarly communication and the enrichment of intellectual productivity.  You can learn more about CNI at their web site, http://www.cni.org


Transcript

In this eight minute podcast, I sit down with Brad Wheeler for a brief discussion about what some new and interesting developments in open source.  We'll chat about the potential for a service like EduCore, activities associated with integrating library systems in Sakai, and the launch of kualitestdrive.org ... a new service that provides an opportunity to get a feel for the Kuali financial system first hand. 


This interview is provided courtesy of CNI and was recorded at their 2006 Spring Task Force Meeting.  The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) is an organization dedicated to supporting the transformative promise of networked information technology for the advancement of scholarly communication and the enrichment of intellectual productivity.  You can learn more about CNI at their web site, http://www.cni.org

In this 31 minute recording, I sit down with Ira Fuchs, Vice President for Research in Information Technology at the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.  We'll talk broadly about open source, his vision for EduCore, and software like Zimbra, Chandler, Moodle and Sakai. 


This interview is provided courtesy of CNI and was recorded at their 2006 Spring Task Force Meeting.  The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) is an organization dedicated to supporting the transformative promise of networked information technology for the advancement of scholarly communication and the enrichment of intellectual productivity.  You can learn more about CNI at their web site, http://www.cni.org

This 46 minute recording provides coverage of the 2005 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference Session entitled Community Source ERP: What? Are You Crazy?

In this podcast, I speak with MIT's McKenzie Smith about the Science Commons, governance of DSpace, The MIT Libraries' investigation of Semantic Web technology via their SIMILE project, grid computing vis-a-vis the SDSC Storage Resource Broker, and digital preservation.  

To learn more about the activities of the MIT Libraries,
you can view their annual report at the url below:
http://libraries.mit.edu/about/annual/ar05/technology.html


This interview is provided courtesy of CNI and was recorded at their 2005 Fall Task Force Meeting.  The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) is an organization dedicated to supporting the transformative promise of networked information technology for the advancement of scholarly communication and the enrichment of intellectual productivity.  You can learn more about CNI at their web site, http://www.cni.org