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Let's Make "The Open University" Truly Open
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| Naturally, offering such courses about
| closed-source software is an important part
| of providing a wide range information and
| training. And I'm sure there will be
| similarly courses and qualifications for
| open source programs.
|
| After all, free software not only already
| totally dominates areas like
| supercomputers, the Internet and embedded
| systems, but is also rapidly gaining market
| share in key sectors like mobile, so it
| would obviously make sense to offer plenty
| of opportunities for students to study and
| work with the operating system of the
| future, as well as that of the past.
|
| That's true for all academic establishments
| offering courses in computing, but in the
| case of the Open University, even-
| handedness assumes a particular importance
| because of the context:
|
| The Open University has appointed a
| Microsoft boss to be its fifth vice-
| chancellor.
|
| Martin Bean is currently general
| manager of product management,
| marketing and business development for
| Microsoft's worldwide education
| products group.
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2010/06/lets-make-open-university-truly-open.html
Bing and gone? A Microsoft car/engine? Yusuf Mehdi conjures up a disturbing thought
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| Of course, users of Microsoftâs blogging
| service will be no strangers to this
| apparent ignoring. For as long as I can
| remember Microsoft Blog service has been
| hit with a plethora of spam which would
| fill the comments section with offers of
| trainers, jewelry and all manner of dodgy
| offers. I brought this up with a Microsoft
| Advocate over on Microsoft Watch about two
| years ago and its only now in the last few
| weeks Microsoft seems to have had the
| problem fixedâ.for the time being. Users
| of WordPress I donât believe suffered like
| Microsoft users did, since my blogs
| inception Ive had very little trouble with
| spam Akismet does a great job.
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http://openbytes.wordpress.com/2010/06/25/bing-and-gone-and-a-microsoft-carengine-yusuf-mehdi-conjures-up-a-disturbing-thought/
Recent:
OU announces Linux course
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| The Open University has announced 'Linux - an
| introduction' a ten week course on the open
| source operating system aimed at absolute
| beginners.
|
| Starting in May, registration for the first
| ten week course closes on the 24th of April.
| The course will cost Â185 for students in the
| UK. The OU gives a second start date of
| October 2010, although registration for that
| date is not yet open, and in future hopes to
| run the course twice a year.
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http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/OU-announces-Linux-course-924329.html
EU: Open Universities open source master published first two books
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| The first two course books have just been
| published online for what is intended to
| become a university master programme on
| free and open source software and open
| standards.
|
| The online master programme, Free
| Technology Academy (FTA) is organised by
| the University of Agder in Norway and two
| of Europe's open universities, the
| Universitat Oberta de Catalunya in Spain
| and the Open Universiteit in the
| Netherlands. Coordination is handled by the
| Free Knowledge Institute, based in the
| Netherlands.
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http://www.osor.eu/news/eu-open-universities-open-source-master-published-first-two-books
Simply the Best: Case Study for Moodle at Open University
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| The British Open University took upon
| itself in 2005, together with the William
| and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the task of
| bringing online learning into the future.
| Unusual is that it didn't decide on Moodle
| for merely financial reasons or that it
| didn't go for professional support.
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http://www.linuxpromagazine.com/Online/News/Simply-the-Best-Case-Study-for-Moodle-at-Open-University
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