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CampusEAI: Empowering Collaborative Development in Education

Learn about CampusEAI, a consortium of education institutions and corporations facilitating the development and support of community-source software. Discover the strengths, weaknesses, challenges, and opportunities associated with the community-source model and explore the CampusEAI portal solutions and grants.

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CampusEAI: Empowering Collaborative Development in Education

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  1. Presentation outline • Panel introductions • About CampusEAI • Portal projects compared • Community source model • Strengths, weaknesses, challenges and opportunities • Collaborative development • CampusEAI portal grant • Question & answer

  2. About CampusEAI • Consortium of 140 primary, secondary, and postsecondary education institutions and corporations in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, China, and India. • Facilitate the development, exchange, • delivery and support of community • source software and digital content.

  3. CampusEAI solutions • CEAI Portal: Community source solution • CEAI Collaboration Suite: Integrated e-mail, calendar, content services, real-time collaboration • : Student-producedprogramming • : IP television solution

  4. CEAI portal solutions/services • Solutions • CEAI depository – community source software • Oracle 10g portal software • Hardware • Professional services – implementation, installation, training, testing & documentation • Support • Membership • Consulting Services • Software development • Application server • Identity management • Training • Staffing Resources

  5. Portal projects compared

  6. Campus community

  7. Portal platform

  8. Current status

  9. IT staff dedicated to project

  10. Major enterprise systems

  11. Key applications in portal

  12. Goals of project

  13. Why CampusEAI?

  14. Community source model Strengths, weaknesses, challenges and opportunities

  15. Community Source • Open Source • (+) • Flexibility • Control • (-) • Resource intensive • Lacking support • Vendor Product • (+) • Support Contract • Service Agreement • “Best Practice” • Industry experts • (-) • Cost • Lack of control • and flexibility

  16. Strengths • Shared work, expertise, ideas • Understanding institutional needs better than outside vendors • Central organization for coordination and support • Embedded community culture (i.e., education)

  17. Weaknesses • Lack of consistent coding standards and development methods • Communication (time, distance, tools) • Bottlenecks with central organization (communication flow, QA of portlets) • Leadership over a “herd of cats”

  18. Challenges • Disparity in portal goals and requirements among members • Managing growth of Consortium to reach out to new members, support existing members, and maintain the consortium itself • Creating a common purpose among members that elicits participation

  19. Opportunities • Better tools for collaboration and communication • Code sharing • Expertise sharing • Determination and application of standards • Economies of scale regarding portlet solutions • Getting beyond the technology

  20. Collaborative development Approaches, successes and challenges

  21. Approaches • Organic • Members would freely share portlets in the central depository. Minimally successful • Centers of excellence • Members with common systems and goals write requirements and develop/test portlets • Informal institution-to-institution connections • Valuable. Critical for immediate institutions, but inefficient for the community • Community development center • Better tools for sharing code, collaborating and communicating

  22. Successes • UM customization portlets • University of Portland Exchange portlet • Temple’s Mirapoint e-mail portlet • Single sign-on • CampusEAI login portlet • Training and whitepapers

  23. CampusEAI portal grants Purpose The CampusEAI Oracle Portal grant program is designed to cover the costs of software, hardware and services associated with the implementation of the CampusEAI Oracle Portal solution. DeliverablesThe grant offering includes hardware, software, project management, installation, and training costs necessary to install and operate a CampusEAI Oracle Portal, in the form of a grant which ranges between $250,000 to $1,000,000 in software, hardware, and services, depending on the size and requirements of the school.

  24. Grant briefings • Wednesday July 12, 2006 – 4-5 p.m. EDT • Wednesday July 26, 2006 -- 4-5 p.m. EDT CampusEAI Anjli Jain, Executive Director Phone: (216) 589-9626 Email: anjli_jain@campuseai.org Web: www.campuseai.org

  25. Question & Answer

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