Opencast and SWITCH
When the Swiss National Research and Education Network SWITCH were looking for a robust and open video management platform, they chose Opencast. SWITCH offer services to a range of education and research customers with high expectations of service quality. SWITCH decided to improve the already robust Opencast software with a community initiative. Quality Booster brought together nine institutions in the Opencast community to book almost 500 hours of additional quality assurance to the Opencast release process. The entire community of Opencast adopters gained from the SWITCH initiative.
Apereo. It's about community.
Sharing costs. Sharing code. Sharing vision.
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uPortal at the California Community College System
Like most colleges, the California Community Colleges (CCC) wanted to implement a portal for their students that would simplify access to important information and services. It would be designed to increase student understanding of the importance of education planning, activities, and campus-based resources that can help keep them stay on track to complete their educational and career goals. CCC chose to develop their “MyPath” Student Portal using Apereo uPortal, a scalable solution that supports multi-tenancy, responsive design, and integration with an identity provider. Apereo community software updates and existing services helps CCC reduce costs and save funding - funding that can then go towards innovation and support of students.
Apereo. It's about community.
Sharing costs. Sharing code. Sharing vision.
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UniTime: Open Source, Open Algorithms, Open Innovation
Many universities contribute to UniTime, producing their own features and adaptations that are played back into the software for the general good. All UniTime code is available in GitHub, and UniTime's algorithms have been widely published in research papers and conference proceedings. Open source. Open algorithms. Open Innovation.
Apereo. It's about freedom.
Free to license. Free to adapt. Free to innovate.
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Xerte at the University of Cape Town
When the University of Cape Town Library needed a tool to create content for their MOOC, they chose Xerte. Xerte's "author once, run anywhere" paradigm allowed them to author content independent of their MOOC - and retain and curate it independently.
Apereo. It's about freedom.
Free to license. Free to adapt. Free to innovate.
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Uniformed Health Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda Improves Test and Question re-use with Sakai
When the Uniformed Health Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland wanted to improve test and question re-use, they turned to Sakai and Apereo Commercial Partner Unicon. The goal was to make cataloging, searching, and re-using questions and question banks easier for instructors. Working in partnership, USU and Unicon developed new question tagging and search capabilities and shared them back to the Sakai community.
Apereo. It's about freedom.
Free to license. Free to adapt. Free to innovate.
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