SOsSOctober 24, 2005 The Open Enterprise Kevin Pitts, eLearning Centres, Seneca College.

SOsS October 24, 2005

The Open Enterprise

Kevin Pitts, eLearning Centres, Seneca College


Overview

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


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?


Model


Model

H. David Lambert, CIO, Georgetown University


Sakai Project


NZOSVLE Project


Applied Research

Phase OneInfrastructure Layer

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

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


Plone


Mambo


Moodle


Slope


DSpace


ERIB


Products

Conferencing• ePresence• NEW

Publishing• Open Journal System• Digital Publishing System


ePresence


NEW


OJS


DPubS


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?


Suitability

Scott Leslie, BCCampus


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


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)


Croquet Project


LAMS


ConceptTutor


Trends

Clark Aldrich, Learning Circuits Blog


Trends


Considerations

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

Platform• LAMP• UNIX, J2EE, ? ?


Considerations

Development• How, Who• Project management

Support

Licensing• Open-Open (e.g. Sakai)

• Dual (e.g. MySQL)

• Creative Commons


Openess

• Open Source

• Open Courseware

• Open Knowledge Initiative

• Open Archives Initiative

• Open Standards; Open Architecture

• Community Source

• Collaborative Open Source


Open Enterprise Model

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


Open Enterprise Model

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

Value• Services• Relationships• Investment in people not products


Applied Research

• Community of like-minded people/ organizations

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


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


Discussion

• Ideas

• Thoughts

• Questions

• Answers


Thanks for having me

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SOsSOctober 24, 2005 The Open Enterprise Kevin Pitts, eLearning Centres, Seneca College.

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