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Will Open Source Software Become An Important Institutional Strategy in Higher Education?
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Introduction
Your level of familiarity with open source software will probably vary greatly depending on your position within your institution, the financial resources of your institution, and your inclination towards the importance of technology. To many in higher education the term has popped up on the radar screen within the last year or so. However, unless you are an IT person, or directly involved in one of a handful of well-funded projects, you still may know very little about what open source is and why it could be important to higher education - not just to the IT folks, but to a significant portion of the leadership of all levels and persuasions.
The purpose of this article is to provide an ‘estimate’ of where we are and what to track as higher education open source initiatives progress. This summary is considered preliminary. We hope to flesh it out with further research into open source best practices.
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