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50 Open Source Apps Transforming Education
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| While some educators have been quick to grasp the potential and promise of
| open source software, many others have been hesitant to stray from the
| comfortable zone of commercial applications. Yet that’s changing.
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| More teachers and institutions are now participating with organizations like
| SchoolForge, the Open Source Education Foundation, and Open Source Schools.
| These educators are beginning to see that the open source philosophy has the
| power to transform education in several key ways.
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http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3831751/50-Open-Source-Apps-Transforming-Education.htm
Recent:
Red Hat educates profs
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| Red Hat is sowing the seeds of open source software development among college
| professors.
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| This week a fourth-floor meeting room at the company's Centennial Campus
| headquarters in Raleigh is the site of a boot camp for faculty from a
| half-dozen universities, including N.C. Central and Elon. It's a prototype
| for a program whose ultimate goal is to immerse computer science students in
| real-world open-source development projects.
|
| [...]
|
| Red Hat, which is poised to join the Standard & Poor's 500 index after the
| market closes today, makes its money by bundling Linux with various levels of
| support services.
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http://www.newsobserver.com/business/story/1619353.html
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