OSS and Collaboration

Recent resources tagged with OSS and Collaboration.

Having Your Cake and Eating It: The e-Framework’s Service-Oriented Approach to IT in Higher Education

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Title:Having Your Cake and Eating It: The e-Framework’s Service-Oriented Approach to IT in Higher Education (ID: ERM0743)
Author(s):Bill Olivier (JISC - Joint Information Systems Committee)
Origin:EDUCAUSE Review Articles (07/06/2007)
Type:Articles, Papers, and Reports
Abstract:

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.

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Open for Change

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Title:Open for Change (ID: ERM0713)
Author(s):Matthew Szulik (Red Hat, Inc.)
Origin:EDUCAUSE Review Articles (2007)
Type:Articles, Papers, and Reports
Abstract:

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

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Analysis of Open Source Principles in Diverse Collaborative Communities

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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.
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Sharing Learning Designs: Building the LAMS Community Web Site

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Title:Sharing Learning Designs: Building the LAMS Community Web Site (ID: EDU05150)
Author(s):James Dalziel (Macquarie University)
Origin:Presented at EDUCAUSE Annual Conferences (10/19/2005)
Type:Presentations/Speeches
Abstract:Learning designs or "learning activity sequences" represent flows of collaborative activities that are authored and run by teachers. The Learning Activity Management System (LAMS) is an open-source system that allows easy creation and sharing of sequences. This presentation will describe implementation of the global community sharing Web site for LAMS sequences.
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Open Educational Resources Serve the World

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Title:Open Educational Resources Serve the World (ID: EQM0533)
Author(s):Sally M. Johnstone (WICHE/WCET)
Origin:EDUCAUSE Quarterly Articles (2005)
Type:Articles, Papers, and Reports
Abstract:

Sharing educational resources over the Internet provides multiple benefits, from academic collaboration to economic development.

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The Open Source Congress

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Title:The Open Source Congress (ID: ERM05414)
Author(s):Colin Currie (Princeton University)
Origin:EDUCAUSE Review Articles (2005)
Type:Articles, Papers, and Reports
Abstract:

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.

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Community Source Springs Forth

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Title:Community Source Springs Forth (ID: CSD4025)
Author(s):Anna Jackson (NACUBO)
Origin:Contributed by Organizations or Campuses (2005)
Type:Articles, Papers, and Reports
Abstract:Implementing new administrative systems software takes time, but support for community source projects is gaining ground.
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