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Apereo Lightning Talks: Analytics Theme

Join us March 28th at 11am Eastern for a round of lightning talks focused on Analytics.

Preview Artifact: Sakai Manifesto

The annual SakaiCamp held in Orlando in January produced an unusual artifact this year. The 20+ participants drafted a "Sakai Manifesto" - aka principles and practices which developers follow when improving Sakai.

Opencast Community Summit 2018: Registration is Open

The annual Opencast conference will be hosted from February 14 to February 16, 2018 at the University of Vienna. The meeting will allow participants from the Opencast community to present their current activities related to Opencast and academic video management in general.

Apereo Webinar Recording - Learning What Works When Scaling Analytics Infrastructure

This webinar provides insights into the open source frameworks, analytics technology, and strategy required to deploy analytics infrastructure with efficient IT delivery.

Sakai Virtual Conference In Review

Unicon Simplifies Getting Started with Learning Analytics by Introducing Efficient, Four-Step Process for Success

2018 OpenApereo CFP coming soon! Call for conference volunteers!

Join the November 2017 Apereo Lightning Talks - See videos from April talks!

November 20, 2017 - 11am Eastern

LAMP Consortium joins Apereo Foundation to grow support for open source in .edu

The LAMP consortium, a community of eighteen colleges, have announced their membership of the Apereo Foundation, the leading non-profit entity supporting the development and adoption of open source software in education. “Apereo and LAMP share a common objective of supporting and sustaining cost-effective innovation in higher education with open source software” said Ian Dolphin, Executive Director of the Apereo Foundation, “it makes profoundly good sense to work together where we can. LAMP has demonstrated the benefit of open source software for smaller institutions. That’s a model we believe we can expand”.

Pearson and Apereo Foundation Partner to Contribute EQUELLA Digital Repository as Open Source Software

Pearson Open Sources Critical Education Technology in Support of Platform Sustainability and Enhancement The Apereo Foundation, today announced the incubation of EQUELLA, an award-winning digital repository for housing teaching/learning, research, media, and library content in one platform. Pearson is contributing EQUELLA as open source software in support of sustainability for EQUELLA customers, while increasing collaboration to create platform enhancements. “As an EQUELLA user, my institution can now manage and prioritize its investment to drive progress in development, customization, integration, support, and hosting resources in such a way as to help move our institution and the product forward,” said Mara Hancock, CIO, VP Technology, California College of the Arts.

Open Source and the NGDLE

Publshed in the Educause Review, September 11, 2017 by David Ackerman and Ian Dolphin

2018 Open Apereo in Montreal, Quebec

Open Apereo 2018 will be held between Sunday June 3rd and Thursday June 7th 2018, at the Delta Hotel by Marriott in downtown Montreal, Quebec.