About Us

OpenAcademic demonstrates options available using existing open source tools. We are teachers, learners, and developers; from these complementary perspectives we design solutions that meet a variety of needs.

• Some of these needs are institutional: schools and departments need a web presence.
• Some of these needs are pedagogical: instructors need easy-to-use options that allow them to manage work online in time-effective ways.
• Some of these needs are personal: all people can use a space to store, archive, and reflect upon their work.

People learn and work differently, and the software that supports that work needs to be flexible enough to match each user. People shouldn’t need to adjust to a machine.

For most users within your community, the fact that OpenAcademic runs on open source tools won't matter. Most users want tools that work, and that allow them to get their job done in a time-effective way.

For people who acquire and maintain software (as well as the generally curious), open source means a couple of things. First, it means that the code that runs OpenAcademic can be downloaded and installed free of charge. Like commercial software, open source software undergoes revision and improvement over time. Unlike commercial software, however, you can have a direct voice in how the software develops. OpenAcademic is an open source project, which means that all code developed by the project will be released back to the community. If you are a programmer, you can also modify the code directly to meet your needs.

To see what we are up to, check out our blog, or join our development wiki. Also, feel free to contact us.