UNC Chapel Hill Onboards Freshman Language Learners With Sakai
Foreign language placement exams were becoming a costly and cumbersome-to-manage burden for UNC-Chapel Hill - so they turned to Sakai. Sakai's flexibility and freedom from licensing costs provided a one-stop way to onboard incoming freshmen and transfer students, and dramatically reduce cost and effort.
Apereo. It's about freedom.
Free to license. Free to adapt. Free to innovate.
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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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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 and Accessibility
Accessibility is a key strength of Xerte. From the outset, the Xerte community has worked with accessibility specialists to collaboratively create inclusive and accessible tools and content. Authoring content for all our learners.
Apereo. It's about community.
Sharing costs. Sharing code. Sharing vision.
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University of Dayton Extends LMS with Tsugi
In response to faculty demand, the University of Dayton was looking for a way to quickly develop and integrate niche tools to extend Sakai functionality. It turned to Tsugi. With the help of Tsugi, Dayton designs and develops tailor-made tools to the exact specifications of faculty members in a fraction of the time it took previously. Tsugi tools created so far have given faculty the ability use in-video quizzing, group feedback rubrics, photo sharing and commenting, and course learning journals. Tsugi has led to increased levels of faculty engagement and innovation at Dayton.
Apereo. It's about freedom.
Free to license. Free to adapt. Free to innovate.
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