26 May 2011 presentation to SUNY CIT conference (20/20 Vision: Looking Forward & Remembering the Past)

1. Adventures in Open Source: Lessons Learned at Purchase College Keith Landa SUNY CIT 26 May 2011 http://purchase.academia.edu/KeithLanda http://www.slideshare.net/keith.landa

3. Background Liberal Arts and Sciences plus Arts Conservatories ~4200 FTE Residential campus - F2F courses Liberal arts plus studio focus Some online course development COIL and international programming

4. Student Information System Library Information Systems Academic Analytics Campus Repository The View from 30,000 Feet Live Classroom

5. Focus on teaching & learning - Robust set of activities & resources - Add-on modules from the community - Moodle development pathway Costs - No licensing costs - Similar support costs Integration - Other systems - Web 2.0 world Flexible open architecture Why @ Purchase? Risk management - Risks of open source - Commercial products have different risks

12. Video @ Purchase

22. WordPress, Drupal, OpenScholar WordPress -Implemented on campus before Moodle - http:// blogs.purchase.edu -Some active individual blogs -Departmental use instead of homegrown CMS -e.g.: http:// tltc.blogs.purchase.edu Drupal -Replacement for our home-grown CMS? -CampusEAI portal – includes CMS -Drupal for special projects - http:// drupalsites.purchase.edu OpenScholar -Faculty scholarly web pages -Customized Drupal application

23. Why were we so interested? -Legacy faculty web page service -Faculty desire for self-service -Information reuse possibilities -External faculty profile pages

24. Ease of faculty updates -Editing existing content -Adding new items -Default layouts, widgets

25. Faculty choice of -features -themes/appearance Ability to add others Central content access However….

29. Student Information System Library Information Systems Academic Analytics Campus Repository Live Classroom

30. Questions? Keith Landa [email_address] http://openscholar.purchase.edu/keith_landa