The Open Enterprise

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The Open Enterprise

Kevin Pitts, eLearning Centres, Seneca College

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Overview

• A couple of questions• A couple of models• Some projects• Some products• Considerations• The Open Enterprise• Discussion

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Questions

Is it possible to build an enterprise level elearning infrastructure/environment using open source software?

If so, what would it take to bring an open enterprise system to reality?

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Model

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Model

H. David Lambert, CIO, Georgetown University

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Sakai Project

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NZOSVLE Project

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Applied Research

Phase OneInfrastructure Layer

• Network design, architecture• OS, Database, Server, etc.

Application Layer• Portal• Course Management System• Learning Object Repository, ePortfolio

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Plone

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Mambo

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Moodle

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Moodle

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Slope

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DSpace

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ERIB

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Products

Conferencing• ePresence• NEW

Publishing• Open Journal System• Digital Publishing System

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ePresence

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NEW

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OJS

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DPubS

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Questions

Is it possible to build an enterprise level elearning infrastructure/environment using open source software?

Yes!

If so, what would it take to bring an open enterprise system to reality?

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Suitability

Scott Leslie, BCCampus

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Readiness

2005 Campus Computing SurveyKenneth Green (2005)• 55.1% of senior IT officials agree that

“open source will play an increasingly important role in our campus IT strategy.”

• 30.4 % agree that “open source offers a viable alternative” for ERP applications.

• Not ready yet, but reaching the tipping point

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Trends

• Admin focus Academic focus“Ask why, not how.” “Get faculty talking about teaching.” (Kovalesky, 2005)

• Distributed Innovation "...collaboration is more meaningful if you see the focus of these efforts as something that you need to solve, as opposed to something that you can wait for someone else to solve." (Abel, 2005)

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Croquet Project

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LAMS

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ConceptTutor

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Trends

Clark Aldrich, Learning Circuits Blog

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Trends

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Considerations

Standards• IMS Global (data)• OKI, OSIDs (technical)• IMS/IEEE LOM (metadata)

Platform• LAMP• UNIX, J2EE, ? ?

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Considerations

Development• How, Who• Project management

Support

Licensing• Open-Open (e.g. Sakai)

• Dual (e.g. MySQL)

• Creative Commons

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Openess

• Open Source

• Open Courseware

• Open Knowledge Initiative

• Open Archives Initiative

• Open Standards; Open Architecture

• Community Source

• Collaborative Open Source

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Open Enterprise Model

• Application layer• Sustainability• Leadership, accountability• Security, Support, Scalability• Competition/Collaboration• Legal issues, Policy issues (IP)• Coexistence (OS & Proprietary)

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Open Enterprise Model

Worldview• Culture, philosophy• Right, radicalism, will• Globalization

Value• Services• Relationships• Investment in people not products

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Applied Research

• Community of like-minded people/ organizations

• Outcomes:• Educational Value• Commercial Entity/Product ??

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In a Nutshell

• OS at the tipping point• Entering the “Teaching and Learning”

era• Distributed/Democratized Innovation• Open Enterprise duality: technology and

institutional culture• It’s about ownership and control

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Discussion

• Ideas

• Thoughts

• Questions

• Answers

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Thanks for having me

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