Recent OSS in Education Resources

Introduction

posted: Wednesday, July 29, 2009 - 16:57

This Eduforge Topic will show how Open Source Software is already used in the education system, and how it changes current practises.

“How the Open Source Movement has changed Education: 10 success stories” is an article from the Online Education Database (2007) that gives a good introduction to several areas where Open Source concepts are being utilised

Lessons learnt from FLOSS: why free and open are pre-conditions and not options for higher education

posted: Wednesday, July 29, 2009 - 15:56

The paper by Meiszner, Glott,,Rüdiger;and Sulayman (2008) explains the FLOSS model and its application to Higher Education as well as business . It concludes that “FLOSS learning principles and practices challenge traditional as well as modern (OER-related) educational approaches”.

Oregon State University Open Source Lab

posted: Wednesday, July 29, 2009 - 15:55

The Oregon State University Open Source Lab provides hosting services for over 50 leading open source software projects to collaborate with contributors and distribute software . The Lab's staff and students encourage open source adoption in education, government, health care and other sectors.

Stanford Open Source Lab

posted: Wednesday, July 29, 2009 - 15:54

The Stanford Open Source Lab (founded 2007) is part of the Stanford Humanities Lab. Work is taking place to expand into software development, university policy work, open access publishing. . Their wiki shows projects, events, policies and other ideas

Eportfolios as a tool to assess Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL)

posted: Wednesday, July 29, 2009 - 15:53

A report by the Australian Flexible Learning Framework identified ePortfolios as a tool to build quality RPL (2009). One case study uses an Moodle Open Source solution. The Mahara ePortfolio is also presented as an option

Mahara: an ePortfolio with lots to offer to the corporate training world

posted: Wednesday, July 29, 2009 - 15:53

“Can ePortfolios Help Deliver Training Results?” is a document from David C. Broadbent (2009) that evaluates the Open Source ePortfolio Mahara.

Learning Opportunities With Creation of Open Source Textbooks (LOW COST) Act of 2009

posted: Wednesday, July 29, 2009 - 15:52

This proposes that any federal agency spending over $10 million on scientific education should put 2% of that money into creating open source materials, posting them on the Web for students, and updating them”.

Current summary of the bill status.

Technical Evaluation of selected Learning Management Systems

posted: Wednesday, July 29, 2009 - 15:50

“Technical Evaluation of selected LMS” by Catalyst IT Ltd from New Zealand (2004) is the most downloaded report on this topic. It analyses the architecture and implementation, cost of ownership, strength of the communities behind the project, licensing issues, internationalisation and localisation, and accessibility.

Australia: Master of Computing

posted: Wednesday, July 29, 2009 - 15:41

The Australian National University (ANU) offers COMP8440, “Free and Open Source Software Development” in Autumn 2009. It's a five day course, and course materials are available here: recommended!

Master of Libre Open Source Software

posted: Wednesday, July 29, 2009 - 15:29

The GSyC/LibreSoft group is a research group at the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos centered on the scientific study and promotion of libre software. Among its courses are systems integration with libre software, quality in Libre Software devlopment, Development of Libre Software and the Dynamics of Libre Software communities

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