Open Source in Higher Education: Building a Life Raft for the Perfect Storm (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUCAUSE.edu | Open Educational Resources | Scoop.it

We are approaching a decade and a half of experience in one strand of the higher education open agenda: the development and use of open-source software. Motivated by the three drivers of cost, performance, and control—as identified by Paul Courant, former librarian of the University of Michigan—open-source software has been widely adopted by higher education.1 It is useful to periodically draw lessons from this collective experience to inform the shape and direction of future initiatives.