OSS and EDUCAUSE Review Articles

The international e-Framework for Education and Research is helping the research and education world take advantage of the opportunities offered by the service-oriented approach.

The author discusses the use of open source in the context of advancing learning in both secondary and higher education.

Has the vision proffered for "Open Source 2007" been realized? Will 2010 mark continued progress in the collaborative development of applications software—perhaps one of the most potent tools for addressing the challenging trends confronting IT in higher education?

Focusing on "pioneering," the EDUCAUSE Evolving Technologies Committee looked at six technologies and trends—Web 2.0 applications, cell phones, vortals, podcasting, open-source learning management systems, and wireless—and considered how higher education institutions can prepare not only for this rich content but also for that yet to come.

The author discusses economics of software mergers and what higher education can do to minimize the impact.

As a way to establish common grounds and define central platforms for college and university administrative systems, this article proposes the establishment of an Open Source Congress, comprised of functional and technical leaders from the higher educational environment.

The author discusses the positive and negative aspects of open source.

The author discusses the Croquet Project, which is a combination of open source computer software and network architecture that supports deep collaboration and resource sharing among large numbers of users. Such collaboration is carried out within the context of a large-scale distributed information system. The software and architecture define a framework for delivering a scalable, persistent, and extensible interface to network delivered resources.

The author discusses whether the open source movement should go the way of licensing open source software or content.