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Open Source Education
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| Open source or software freedom isnât
| simply another way of procuring software,
| itâs more a state of mind, a particular
| attitude to technology. Of course, you can
| just treat it as a cheap way of getting
| high quality, robust code, and thereâs
| certainly no requirement to grow a beard,
| wear sandals or drink real ale in order to
| install open source applications. However,
| the philosophies that lie at the core of
| open source as a movement are important,
| and, I think have much to offer to
| education more generally; furthermore, open
| source approaches to development can apply
| to things even more important than
| software, such as curriculum resources,
| school policies and even the curriculum
| itself. This brief paper seeks to explore
| some of these areas.
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http://milesberry.net/2010/04/open-source-education/
SunGard Higher Education Launches Industryâs First ERP Community Source Initiative
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| SunGard Higher Education and its customers
| have launched a Community Source Initiative
| â the first and only vendor-supported
| community source forum dedicated to higher
| education Enterprise Resource Planning
| (ERP) systems. The initiative is designed
| to bring together the insights and
| experience of SunGard Higher Educationâs
| extensive user community for the benefit of
| all institutions; make functionality
| available faster; and help ensure product
| quality through functional and technical
| review.
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http://www.prwire.com.au/pr/17217/sungard-higher-education-launches-industry-s-first-erp-community-source-initiative
Netlive,a complete Free Software lab in the pockets of every teacher
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| Endless cuts to Public Education budgets
| are creating survival problems to many
| italian Public Schools, forcing them to ask
| more or less "voluntary" contributions to
| parents every year. How can you guarantee
| quality education in such conditions,
| especially when many teachers, either
| because they only get very short term
| assignments, every time in a different
| school, or because their school has more
| than one campus, work every day in a
| different neighborhood?
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http://stop.zona-m.net/node/142
Recent:
We must learn to put the virtual world at the heart of our education system
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| The second reason was that it was based on
| the principle of âopen sourceâ, meaning
| that the software is free to install and
| use. Open-source software is fundamentally
| different to the business model used by
| most 20th-century software companies, who
| still write software and then sell
| licences.
|
| If you want to change the software to suit
| your needs, you pay the originator of the
| software to make the changes and the
| software remains the property of
| originator. Open-source software, on the
| other hand, is available to anyone to take,
| change and enhance as they need and then
| share their experiences.
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http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/education-news/2010/04/08/we-must-learn-to-put-the-virtual-world-at-the-heart-of-our-education-system-91466-26195263/
Can Professors Teach Open Source?
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| The answer is simple: the skills required
| to succeed in an open source software
| project are the exact same skills required
| to succeed in any large software project.
| The biggest difference is that, with just a
| bit of guidance, anyone can build their
| software skills in the open source world.
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http://opensource.com/education/10/4/can-professors-teach-open-source
Academia's Obligation to Software Freedom
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| The Free Software philosophy is founded in
| the ideals of freedom, openness, and
| sharing. Producing software based on these
| ideals has great pragmatic benefits. Free
| Software is developed in the interest of
| its users instead of the owner of the
| software. This method of producing software
| benefits the entire community, and the
| software is of much higher quality due to
| the huge number of volunteer and paid
| contributers.
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http://blog.thesilentnumber.me/2010/04/academias-obligation-to-software.html
Moodle: a Flexible, Open Source Online Learning Platform
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| Among many universities that use Moodle to deliver online courses, U.C.
| Berkeley offers Moodle-based, free online courses and lectures. Itâs also
| used for e-learning purposes on over 40,000 web sites.
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http://webworkerdaily.com/2008/09/16/moodle-a-flexible-open-source-online-learning-platform/
Moodle - the open source software that's getting serious
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| One of the biggest outbreaks of open source software has been in the learning
| business and a clear leader is emerging - software called Moodle, now used
| for on-line learning on 40,000 web sites.
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http://www.onrec.com/newsstories/21153.asp
HowToMoodle: OSS Learning Platform Goes Pro
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| Moodle is used for online learning on some 40,000 Web sites, but UK training
| managers have been slow to react. "They are used to proprietary software, but
| this is very often costly to adopt, with heavy license fees that can be
| expensive if large numbers of people are involved.
|
| [...]
|
| "Moodle has been like a lot of open source software, where development has
| been left to individual innovation and training.
|
| "We decided to introduce an element of professionalism into the business."
|
| "We are now training and supporting organizations all over the UK as the
| recognized center of Moodle support," Lawrence added.
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/63377.html
Taking the Open Road: University Libraries Explore Options
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| Open source learning management system Moodle alone is now used in 56
| percent of universities since its introduction three years ago, and
| the Open University has moved over to it wholesale. Supporters say
| open source LMS tend to be more modular and make it much easier for
| libraries to contribute content than is the case with
| commercial solutions.
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/59219.html
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