Contributed by Organizations or Campuses; Articles, Papers, and Reports; and OSS
Open Education 2006: Community, Culture, and Content
| Title: | Open Education 2006: Community, Culture, and Content (ID: CSD4683) | | Origin: | Contributed by Organizations or Campuses (2006) | | Type: | Articles, Papers, and Reports | | Abstract: | Open Education 2006: Community, Culture, and Content was a multidisciplinary event designed to promote the discussion of the variety of research, development, and other activities necessary to move the field of open education forward. The proceedings include over 30 papers on topics such as Open educational resources, Tools and software supporting open education and Reusing and remixing open educational resources. | | View this resource: | |
Analysis of Open Source Principles in Diverse Collaborative Communities
| Title: | Analysis of Open Source Principles in Diverse Collaborative Communities (ID: CSD4646) | | Author(s): | Jill Coffin | | Source: | First Monday | | Origin: | Contributed by Organizations or Campuses (2006) | | Type: | Articles, Papers, and Reports | | Abstract: | Open source culture and practice emerged as software hackers took control over the production, ownership and distribution of their skilled work. This revolution, quiet and unnoticed by most, began over twenty years ago. Along the way, free and open source software hackers developed organizational and dialog structures to support their ethos, creating a successful model for collaboration. This paper applies traits common to successful free software and open source hacker communities as a framework to analyze three non–hacker collaborative communities. | | View this resource: | |
Software and Collaboration in Higher Education: A Study of Open Source Software
| Title: | Software and Collaboration in Higher Education: A Study of Open Source Software (ID: CSD4633) | | Origin: | Contributed by Organizations or Campuses (2006) | | Type: | Articles, Papers, and Reports | | Abstract: | In recent years over a dozen open source software (OSS) projects have been launched among higher education institutions with the aim of meeting the community's needs more effectively and at less cost than do commercial options presently available. There is, however, a concern in the community that its adoption is hindered by uncertainty about future support for and improvements in the software. The creation of a new organization, which we refer to with generic term "OOSS" (Organization for Open Source Software), has been proposed to address this need. This concept has received significant interest from the community and from a group of senior college and university administrators. There is a desire for further exploration of the need for such an organization and for a clearer definition of what its mission and areas of activity would be. Paul Courant, Professor of Economics and former Provost at the University of Michigan, has agreed to lead a study in collaboration with Ithaka. Michael Carter, a consultant with decades of experience in academic computing and instructional technologies with major universities and leading companies in the technology sector, is also assisting in this effort. The goal of the OOSS study is to evaluate the landscape and market environment for open source software (OSS) created by and for the higher education community, to assess the need for an organization to promote the support and adoption of these OSS projects, and to define this organization's mission and service model, should we determine that such an organization is desirable. | | View this resource: | |
OSS Watch Survey 2006
| Title: | OSS Watch Survey 2006 (ID: CSD4611) | | Origin: | Contributed by Organizations or Campuses (2006) | | Type: | Articles, Papers, and Reports | | Abstract: | During February and March 2006, OSS Watch conducted a survey of UK Higher Education (HE) and Further Education (FE) institutions. The purpose of the survey was:
* to produce an up-to-date picture of the deployment of open source software in HEs and FEs;
* to draw comparisons with the results of a similar survey undertaken in 2003;
* to scope areas for future work by OSS Watch. | | View this resource: | |
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