The Chronicle of Higher Education

Sakai Project Offers an Alternative to Commercial Course-Management Programs

By JEFFREY R. YOUNG

Denver

For colleges that adopt Sakai, an open-source course-management system released this summer, there is no toll-free number to call to report a bug or request a new feature. But because the software's underlying code is published for all to see, colleges' programmers can build any patches or tools that they want, or find...

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