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Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI)
Know the strengths and weaknesses of Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) in the promotion of open source software
- Year
- 2014
- Global position
- 62nd
- OSDI
- 4.62
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Position in each dimension
| Teaching | 24th |
|---|---|
| Research | 7th |
| Technological | 7th |
| Webometrics | 7th |
What's the OSDI? It's an indicator that measures the commitment that universities acquire with diffusion of Open Source software and is calculated based on 18 indicators that examine all areas of each university. More about the OSDI
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Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) results are compared with those of other universities to know where they stand and those aspects where they can improve. Back to the general classification.
| Dimension | Criteria | Indicator | Difference compared to the others |
|---|---|---|---|
| Teaching criteria | OCW Usage | Is this institution a member of the OpenCourseWare Consortium to offer fee and openly licensed courses accesible by anyone via Internet? | 0% |
| GSoC enrollement | Has this institution been enrolled in Google Summer of Code program any time in the period 2005-2010? | 6.21% | |
| Number of students at GsoC | Number of students enrolled in the Google Summer of Code between 2005-2010 | 5.81% | |
| OER Material | Does this institution publish materials licensed under OER (Open Educational Resources) | -1.06% | |
| Research criteria | Open Source Science Project Member | Is this institution supporting Open Science? | 0% |
| Jasic Member | Is this institution supporting development of open source projects which benefit higher education? | 0% | |
| Kuali member | Is this institution supporting the creation of an open source financial system for higher education? | 0% | |
| Technological criteria | Web Server | Is the server of the university's main webpage a free and open source server? Nginx, Apache... | 3.98% |
| Web contents license | Does the university's webpage use any contents free license? | 0% | |
| Uses Open Source VLE | Is this institution using Sakai, Moodle (or any other open sourced system) as VLE (Virtual Learning Environment)? | 0% | |
| Webometrics | Impact | Total number of external backlinks * total number of different domains containing those backlinks | -0.39% |
| MajesticMillion | Website rating according to MajesticSEO | -0.53% | |
| WIF (Web Impact Fact) | Total number of external backlinks / total number of indexed pages | -0.56% | |
| Dispersion's impact of the fresh citations | Number of fresh different domains containing a backlink to the OCW | -0.56% | |
| Dispersion's impact of the total citations | Number of historic different domains containing a backlink to the OCW | -0.49% | |
| Number of OCW fresh citations | Number of fresh backlinks to their OCW | -0.36% | |
| Number of OCW total citations | Total number of backlinks to their OCW | -0.4% | |
| Indexed pages | Total number of OCW's indexed pages according to MajesticSEO | -0.62% | |
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