January 30, 2004

4 Universities Join to Create Open-Source Software for Professors to Manage Courses

By ANDREA L. FOSTER

In what may be a big threat to commercial providers of course-management systems, four universities have announced a $6.8-million collaborative venture to create open-source courseware tools and related software for higher-education institutions.

The universities developing the system, called the Sakai Project, are the Indiana University system, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, and the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, which will lead the

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