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Anthony Doesburg: Students open to new source of knowledge
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| All of it is open-source - and free - saving an estimated $200,000 over the
| equivalent proprietary software from the likes of Microsoft. Yet, says Mark
| Osborne, Albany Senior High's deputy principal and IT co-ordinator, the
| money's only part of it.
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| "The financial benefits of open-source are quite secondary to our overall
| goal, which is to be an open, collaborative community where nobody is shut
| out of the learning process; nobody is beyond our community."
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http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=10592238
The e-Learning Lingo Podcast Discusses âOpen Source Softwareâ
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| Dave Boggs, CEO of SyberWorks, states, âThis weekâs episode of the e-Learning
| Lingo Podcast describes software for which the original program instructions
| are widely available.â
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http://www.pr.com/press-release/173449
Recent:
Free Software in Education
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| The notion of Free Software is definitely political. Iâm not stating the
| obvious, that any human work that affects a community in any way is
| political. Neither I suggest that the ideological (as opposed to purely
| technical) reasons of many Free Software supporters (and its critics)
| automatically brand it as a political issue. They alone might as well
| characterize it as philosophical, artistic or simply iconic. Free Software is
| political because it is strongly tied with a deep political question: that of
| education, and access to it.
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| [...]
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| You can read two great articles that support this: Richard Stallmanâs Why
| schools should exclusively use free software and Jean Peyratoutâs Why give
| precedence to Free Software at Schools. To summarize them, Free Softwares
| helps students assimilate and generate knowledge, instead of simply acquire
| technical skills; it offers education, instead of training. It helps build
| communities, and promotes (actually depends on) discussion, cooperation,
| initiative and active participation to the development process. In an
| increasingly expanding digital world, it embodies the ideals of education.
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http://xpapad.wordpress.com/2009/05/22/free-software-in-education/
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