Higher education sub-cultures and open source adoption

Rooij, Shahron Williams van

doi:10.1016/j.compedu.2011.01.006

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“…An earlier study by Williams van Rooij (2007) indicated that cultural conflict had been a significant hindrance to technology adoption at 772 institutions (Williams van Rooij, 2011). By 2011 a scarcity of resources had pushed the two cultures closer together, but the author concludes that maximizing the scarcer resources will depend on "striking a balance in which the drivers of one sub-eulture are not realized at the expense of the other" (Williams van Rooij, 2011Rooij, , p, 1182.…”

Section: Conceptualizing Workplace Conflicts As Clashes Between Cultumentioning

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2: Envisioning Creative Collaboration Between Faculty and Technologists

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Kuhlenschmidt

Sacks

2013

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Faculty developers must often mediate conflicts resulting from differences between seemingly mutually exclusive cultures that university technologists and university teachers inhabit. Activity theory embraces workplace conflict as normal and as contributing to organizing health and adaptation, in contrast to a functionalist approach that focuses on how to maintain system equilibrium. Engeström's (1987) interpretation of activity theory provides a theoretically informed framework for understanding different forms of human activity, mediated by culturally molded rules, values, and division of labor, without suffering from the polarizing effects of an us‐versus‐them approach.

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2: Envisioning Creative Collaboration Between Faculty and Technologists

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Kuhlenschmidt

Sacks

2013

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“…Initial surveys in the early 2000s reflected the adoption of the VLE across further and higher education in the UK Jenkins, Browne & Armitage 2001;Jenkins, Browne & Walker, 2005). By 2010, VLEs or LMS were in use in 90-100% of higher education institutions in the US and UK (Brown, 2010;Williams van Rooij, 2011). However, by the end of the 2000s researchers who analysed critically the use of the VLE were beginning to suggest that its capacity to support innovative and active teaching and learning methods was extremely limited.…”

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“…Open source software (OSS) is software without a license fee and includes its computer program source code. OSS is a means of addressing the rising costs of campus-wide software applications while developing a learner-centered environment (van Rooij 2012 ; Williams van Rooij 2011 ).…”

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An evaluation and selection problems of OSS-LMS packages

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The evaluation and selection of inappropriate open source software in learning management system (OSS-LMS) packages adversely affect the business processes and functions of an organization. Thus, comprehensive insights into the evaluation and selection of OSS-LMS packages are presented in this paper on the basis of three directions. First, available OSS-LMSs are ascertained from published papers. Second, the criteria for evaluating OSS-LMS packages are specified.according to two aspects: the criteria are identified and established, followed by a crossover between them to highlight the gaps between the evaluation criteria for OSS-LMS packages and the selection problems. Third, the abilities of selection methods that appear fit to solve the problems of OSS-LMS packages based on the multi-criteria evaluation and selection problem are discussed to select the best OSS-LMS packages. Results indicate the following: (1) a list of active OSS-LMS packages; (2) the gaps on the evaluation criteria used for LMS and other problems (consisting of main groups with sub-criteria); (3) use of multi-attribute or multi-criteria decision-making (MADM/MCDM) techniques in the framework of the evaluation and selection of the OSS in education as recommended solutions.

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Higher education sub-cultures and open source adoption

Cited by 29 publications

References 9 publications

2: Envisioning Creative Collaboration Between Faculty and Technologists

2: Envisioning Creative Collaboration Between Faculty and Technologists

The #VLEIreland project

An evaluation and selection problems of OSS-LMS packages

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