About
What is Eduforge.org?
Eduforge is a virtual collaborative learning and exploratory environment designed for the sharing of ideas, research outcomes and information about open source. It is an open access environment allowing anyone with an interest in open source software to join the community.
Eduforge also provides the Open Source Learning Lab to provide training for open source practitioners through a 100% online delivery model. Our goal is to establish innovative training networks throughout the wider education sector, both nationally and internationally. Of course, open source practitioners are heavy users of the internet to communicate, collaborate and distribute code. Online is therefore an ideal training delivery model.
Our direction is to build a virtual academy that is strongly collaborative in nature. Core to our mission is to further develop both national and international connections that will support, inform and be integral to establishing open source technologies as an economic growth driver in the 21st Century.
Eduforge provides
- - Links to and support for a range of courses focused on the world of open source, common applications, how open source works, programming languages, documentation efforts etc.
- - A set of resources
- - News feeds
- - Showcase for specific projects
- - Community tools
- - Register a project of your own, or request to join one of the many innovative project communities.
Who manages Eduforge?
Eduforge is managed by the Open Polytechnic of New Zealand.
Community Culture
The underpinning philosophy of Eduforge can be described as 'open access and sharing'. The "openness" of Eduforge is derived from its origins as an open source educational software development community now focused more on open source training and advocacy.
What else can we do for you?
Please fill out our suggestions form and let us know what you would like to see on the Eduforge website. Our goal is to provide you with everything we can, but we can only go so far without hearing from our visitors.
