Higher education sector is quite different from other industries. It has its own process and a different set of requirements. Many commercial vendors to develop applications of their applications to focus on broader areas spread throughout the industry. These scholars complain, creating a unique disconnect between software vendors and users at the university.

To overcome these drawbacks, education, industry, start looking for “open source” as an alternative model. About a decade back, the organization began debating the total cost of ownership is required to use the open source community-based approach compared with countries such application, the efficiency of open source based business models, sustainability and safety.

The success of open source software developed society is quite robust. Linux and Apache is sufficient proof of its success. A similar trend, although not extensive in scope, due to the development of community education projects such as Moodle and Sakai.

During the formative years, the open source community-based approach to education has developed several types of options. Some of the models and schools of thought have been developed and successfully implemented across a large spectrum of industries. Progress and success in open source projects such as Sakai, Moodle, New, uPortal, signaling, and more closely watched by the industry.

Community Resource Model

One school of thought believes that the sharing of open source philosophy is a more viable options. The use of open source in higher education seems to indicate otherwise. Floss (Free / Libre and Open Source Software) community is growing very well in a learning environment as well.

Floss models have been widely used in programs like MIT open courses and Open Source Biology. Project Gutenberg is Wikipedia, Open Dictionary Project is a prime example of how open source has been adapted to the educational initiatives.

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