Open Source and Higher Education

What does open source have to do with higher education? Lacey Williams Henschel has been a developer for the University of Texas at Austin for 4 years, and she’s worked with open source technologies, home-grown software, and closed systems. The open source and higher education communities share some core values: transparency, responsibility to our communities and users, and a consistent need to maximize effectiveness even with low budgets. But developers in higher education face some unique challenges in using open source software and contributing to open source projects. How can the open source world better serve the higher education community, and encourage those developers to come aboard?

Keynote at Postgres Open in Dallas, TX.

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1. Open Source and Higher Education Lacey Williams Henschel The University of Texas at Austin @laceynwilliams
8. education
9. transparency
10. users
11. kuali.org
12. “Software developed by and for higher ed needs a lot of flexibility due to the various needs of different parts of campus.” - Tim Brace, ApplyTexas
13. moodle.org
14. Source: Inside Higher Ed
15. canvaslms.com
16. sakaiproject.org
17. open.edx.org
18. Source: Rochester Institute of Technology
19. “They don’t have faith that an ad hoc community will be able to support them in a crisis.” - Stephen Jacobs, RIT
20. “Large public schools have the hardest time maintaining and implementing open source programs because they are competing for talent against private companies.” - Michelle Harven, EdTechTimes
21. Kenneth Reitz, “Growing Open Source Seeds”
22. thank you.