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
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