• DocumentCode
    1277733
  • Title

    Community Source Software in Higher Education

  • Author

    Wang, Harry Jiannan ; Blue, Jon ; Plourde, Mathieu

  • Author_Institution
    Univ. of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA
  • Volume
    12
  • Issue
    6
  • fYear
    2010
  • Firstpage
    31
  • Lastpage
    37
  • Abstract
    This case study shows how the University of Delaware adopted Sakai, a community source system for higher education. It discusses the major challenges of community source adoption and presents the key success factors for overcoming them.
  • Keywords
    educational administrative data processing; educational institutions; further education; public domain software; University of Delaware; community source software; community source system; higher education; Best practices; Collaborative software; Communities; Computer industry; Databases; Ecosystems; Education; Educational institutions; Educational products; Encoding; Least squares approximation; Licenses; Open source software; Software systems; Web server; Free and open source system; case study; community source; higher education; information technology; learning and collaboration system; software adoption;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    IT Professional
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1520-9202
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MITP.2010.120
  • Filename
    5530311