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Community Source Development: The Higher-Education Road

ACM News Service: Values of Community Source Development.  From 2004-09-23: This blurb is about an article that describes how Community Source is increasingly undertaken in higher-education to provide shared software that addresses common problems in university education and course management.  The institutions are no longer willing to develop independent solutions.  I have commented on this specifically around course-management software.  Here, Lois Brooks of Stanford expands the discussion of how community structures may be a good formula for educational institutions at all levels.

The Lois Brooks Syllabus article has excellent references and links.  It provides an intriguing notion of how there are amalgamations of the cathedral and bazaar that work in specific communities, where operation is much like that of a virtual organization that has focused deliverables.  The identification with a community also takes participants beyond a parochial, highly-localized view and creates broader conversations.  "The ultimate goal of community source efforts is to develop tools that meet the changing needs of dynamic teaching and research institutions. By working together, we can accomplish more than we could do on our own."

Yes, I am catching up on loose notes that have accumulated in Blogger and are slowing me down.  I caught some backlog by consolidating several notes in single posts, but it is too much work to do that with these stragglers.

posted by orcmid at 11/1/2004 09:49:37 PM