Apereo News

May 8, 2026 — The following essay by longtime Bedework contributor and former Bedework Steering Committee Chair Gary Schwartz reflects on the project’s origins, evolution, and the collaborative spirit that shaped its success over the last twenty years.

May 6, 2026 — The Apereo Foundation is now accepting nominations for its 2026 Board of Directors election cycle. The Apereo Foundation is community-driven, and participation in Board elections is one important way members help guide the Foundation’s future. Apereo encourages all Friends of Apereo and members of the wider community to participate by nominating thoughtful, engaged candidates who can help advance the Foundation’s mission and strengthen the open-source higher education ecosystem.

May 4, 2026 — Liebe Community, mit viel Vorfreude laden wir euch zur diesjährigen Opencast DACH Konferenz in unser schönes Wien ein.

May 4, 2026 — Congratulations to the uPortal community — the Tier 2 portlet release wave is complete: 10 portlets aligned with uportal-portlet-parent v51.

April 13, 2026 —

"Do more with less." It's been the ask of higher education for the last 15 years (at least), and in the age of AI, that expectation has only grown. In 2017, my open-source authoring platform HAX (Headless Authoring Experience) employed four developers with formal responsibility for supporting online course development. By 2023, post-pandemic, we had one (me). Development of HAX should have slowed to a crawl, yet by 2024, we saw an explosion of output.

What changed? My teaching.