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Ian Dolphin - Executive Director - [email protected] Jaeques Koeman - Chair, Apereo Incubation WG
Francisco Osorio - Flickr - https://www.flickr.com/photos/francisco_osorio/ - Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0)
Open Source Software Serving EducationIntroducing Apereo
– Apereo Mission
“…to help educational organizations collaborate to foster, develop, and sustain open technologies and innovation to support learning, teaching, and research.”
– The Apereo Foundation is a non-profit [501(c)(3)] registered in New Jersey
Why Open-Source?
Suitability
Cost
Control
Ability to collaborate in order to innovate
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} ‘Courant Report’
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1 Software and Collaboration in Higher Education - A Study of Open Source Software www.campussource.de/opensource/docs/OOSS_Report.pdf
Elected Board of Directors - + small number appointees
Around 80 higher ed and commercials worldwide Close partnership with 72 higher ed institutions in FranceIndependent Schools Victoria - network of 150 schools
Constituent communities have significant autonomy- devolve decision making to those closest to the problem
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Software Communities
Bedework CAS Opencast Open Academic Environment Sakai Student Success Plan UniTime uPortal/uMobile Xerte EDexchange Karuta Learning Analytics Processor OpenDashboard OpenLRS
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Communities of InterestPurpose Teaching & Learning ePortfolio Learning Analytics
Software Development Internationalization Accessibility Security Licensing
“Just having someone to report to makes us more organized and more articulate about what we are doing. Because our mentors are with us, we are better.” J. Smith - Karuta Open source Portfolio
“The incubation process functions as a pointer to look at things that otherwise might have been overlooked. The fact that one mentor wasn't familiar with the project was useful.” N. Matthijs - Open Academic Environment
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Ian Dolphin - Executive Director - [email protected] Jaeques Koeman - Chair, Apereo Incubation WG
Francisco Osorio - Flickr - https://www.flickr.com/photos/francisco_osorio/ - Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0)
Open Source Software Serving EducationIntroducing Apereo