By Tanya Roscorla, Converge
Ten years ago, the vice president of IT at Indiana University told Brad Wheeler — then the associate dean for teaching and learning — that they needed to update their homegrown teaching and learning systems. But after some research, building a system didn’t seem like such a bad idea, especially if he could partner with other universities. In 2003, Indiana University launched its Sakai project to collaboratively create open source teaching and learning systems. And the university worked again with multiple institutions to build an open source suite of administrative applications, saving $17 million. “This isn’t just hobbies and chess,” said Wheeler, now the university’s CIO. “This is the real deal.”
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