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

2. SOsSOctober 24, 2005 Overview A couple of questions A couple of models Some projects Some products Considerations The Open Enterprise Discussion

3. SOsSOctober 24, 2005 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?

4. SOsSOctober 24, 2005 Model

5. SOsSOctober 24, 2005 Model H. David Lambert, CIO, Georgetown University

6. SOsSOctober 24, 2005 Sakai Project

7. SOsSOctober 24, 2005 NZOSVLE Project

8. SOsSOctober 24, 2005 Applied Research Phase One Infrastructure Layer Network design, architecture OS, Database, Server, etc. Application Layer Portal Course Management System Learning Object Repository, ePortfolio

9. SOsSOctober 24, 2005 Plone

10. SOsSOctober 24, 2005 Mambo

11. SOsSOctober 24, 2005 Moodle

12. SOsSOctober 24, 2005 Moodle

13. SOsSOctober 24, 2005 Slope

14. SOsSOctober 24, 2005 DSpace

15. SOsSOctober 24, 2005 ERIB

16. SOsSOctober 24, 2005 Products Conferencing ePresence NEW Publishing Open Journal System Digital Publishing System

17. SOsSOctober 24, 2005 ePresence

18. SOsSOctober 24, 2005 NEW

19. SOsSOctober 24, 2005 OJS

20. SOsSOctober 24, 2005 DPubS

21. SOsSOctober 24, 2005 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?

22. SOsSOctober 24, 2005 Suitability Scott Leslie, BCCampus

23. SOsSOctober 24, 2005 Readiness 2005 Campus Computing Survey Kenneth 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

24. SOsSOctober 24, 2005 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)

25. SOsSOctober 24, 2005 Croquet Project

26. SOsSOctober 24, 2005 LAMS

27. SOsSOctober 24, 2005 ConceptTutor

28. SOsSOctober 24, 2005 Trends Clark Aldrich, Learning Circuits Blog

29. SOsSOctober 24, 2005 Trends

30. SOsSOctober 24, 2005 Considerations Standards IMS Global (data) OKI, OSIDs (technical) IMS/IEEE LOM (metadata) Platform LAMP UNIX, J2EE, ? ?

31. SOsSOctober 24, 2005 Considerations Development How, Who Project management Support Licensing Open-Open (e.g. Sakai) Dual (e.g. MySQL) Creative Commons

32. SOsSOctober 24, 2005 Openess Open Source Open Courseware Open Knowledge Initiative Open Archives Initiative Open Standards; Open Architecture Community Source Collaborative Open Source

33. SOsSOctober 24, 2005 Open Enterprise Model Application layer Sustainability Leadership, accountability Security, Support, Scalability Competition/Collaboration Legal issues, Policy issues (IP) Coexistence (OS & Proprietary)

34. SOsSOctober 24, 2005 Open Enterprise Model Worldview Culture, philosophy Right, radicalism, will Globalization Value Services Relationships Investment in people not products

35. SOsSOctober 24, 2005 Applied Research Community of like-minded people/ organizations Outcomes: Educational Value Commercial Entity/Product ??

36. SOsSOctober 24, 2005 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

37. SOsSOctober 24, 2005 Discussion Ideas Thoughts Questions Answers

38. SOsSOctober 24, 2005 Thanks for having me kevin.pitts@senecac.on.ca