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Open Source Learning Platforms... what is the point?
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| Moodle is the leading educational LP in Europe and is the choice of the Open
| University who have invested millions in customising its code to suit its
| needs.
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| Moodle stands out for two reasons: it's free and it is 100% open source
| software. Surely then a 'no-brainer' for UK schools. You would have thought
| so but you should not be surprised to hear that despite having five official
| Moodle partners in the UK not one is Becta-approved.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=1653&blogid=17
Learning from Education
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| Closed source code is also a bad match for what schools should be teaching:
| the ability to learn and to explore. Closed source precludes opening up the
| box, and reinforces an attitude of passivity and unthinking obedience. Too
| often, schools are teaching pupils where to find the Print command on the
| File menu, instead of helping pupils learn about how computers can be a
| powerful and flexible tool.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=1651&blogid=14
Recent:
Education IT chiefs debate open source
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| The concept of open source software seems so firmly entrenched in higher
| education that it comes as almost a shock to realize there's actually a
| debate over it. But debate there was, civilized and trenchant, this week
| during the annual Educause conference on high technology in higher education
| in the US.
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| "It's really tough to take [commercial software] systems built for a
| corporate world and stick them into an education world," said Bradley
| Wheeler, vice president for IT and CIO at Indiana University, adding that one
| recent book estimated education globally would spent US$5.5 billion
| installing ERP, much of it in modifying commercial software to meet
| institutional needs. "We spend so much money trying to hard fit those things
| in."
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http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1693114264;fp;4;fpid;1968336438
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