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| Title: | What is the significance of Open Source Software for the education and training community? |
| Authors: | Attwell, Graham |
| Keywords: | open source, education, training, economic issues, pedagocic impact |
| Description: | There is growing interest in the education community in the development and use of Open
Source Software. This paper explains the ideas behind OSS and how what its significance is
for education. It examines regional and national initiatives to promote the use of OSS.
The paper considers the advantages of OSS and potential problems. It goes on to look at
the idea of open content and the sharing of learning content, and provides short case
studies. The paper concludes that the major significance of OSS and open content is in the
new social relations engendered and in fostering innovation in e-learning, both in
application development and new pedagogies. See also: http://oss2005.case.unibz.it/Papers/OES/EK4.pdf |
| Licence: | Creative Commons, non-commercial, attributive |
| Issue Date: | Jul-2005 |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2038/1563 |
| bibliographicCitation: | Proceedings of the First International Conference on Open Source Systems (OSS 2005), Genova, 11th-15th July 2005 |
| Appears in Collections: | Essays on OSS
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