Open source software in education and training
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This document discusses open source software for education and training. Some key points include: - Open source software allows users to freely run, study, redistribute, and improve programs. - Open source can be used for schools' infrastructure, applications, and operating systems through thin clients and portable kits. - An open source approach fosters a culture of collaboration and knowledge sharing among teachers. - Some barriers to open source adoption include perceptions of risk, compatibility issues, and reliance on managed services. - Successful implementation involves participating in open source communities, empowering technical staff, focusing on reliability, sustainability and starting small before scaling up.
Open source software in education and training
- 1. Open source software for education and training" Miles Berry FBCS CITP " Roehampton University" "
- 3. Free to run the program! CC by-‐nc Socceraholic
- 4. Free to study how the program works! CC by-‐sa The Master Shake Signal
- 5. Free to redistribute ! the program! CC by-‐nc-‐sa Sarah Parro7
- 6. Free to improve ! the program! CC by-‐nc Maggie T
- 10. Open Source Schools! cc-‐by-‐nc-‐sa MrUsh
- 16. Use in Schools"
- 17. Infrastructure"
- 23. Open Source and Windows"
- 33. Thin Clients!
- 35. Portable Kit"
- 40. Creating a culture of collaboration "
- 41. The 'tinkering' teacher is an individualised embryo of institutional knowledge creation. When such tinkering becomes more systematic, more collective and explicitly managed, it is transformed into knowledge creation… " Transfer is difficult to achieve for it involves far more than telling or simply providing information… " This is most easily achieved when a teacher tinkers with information derived from another's professional practice. " Hargreaves, 1999, The Knowledge Creating School
- 42. Lessons Learnt"
- 43. Participate in the Community! cc-‐by-‐nc Cambodia Trust
- 44. Empower your techies! cc-‐by-‐nc-‐sa Grant Mitchell
- 45. Reliability and Innovation! cc-‐by-‐nc-‐sa Vermin Inc
- 46. Freedom and Control! CC by-‐nc-‐sa fatboyke (luc)
- 47. Make the savings visible! cc-‐by-‐nc-‐sa Adam Mulligan
- 49. Start small then scale up! cc-‐by ansik
- 50. Being Open! CC by-nc-nd karenwithak
- 51. Some of the Barriers • Too much money! • Managed Services • Risk aversion • Perception • Network managers • Compatibility
- 53. Contact details" opensourceschools.org.uk" @mberry" m.berry@roehampton.ac.uk"