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Open Source
What is Open Source?
| Answers.com |
“Of or relating to source code that is available to
the public: an open-source operating system.”
http://www.answers.com/topic/open-source
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| Open Source Matters |
“The basic idea behind open source is very simple:
When programmers can read, redistribute, and modify the source code
for a piece of software, the software evolves. People improve it,
people adapt it, people fix bugs. And this can happen at a speed
that, if one is used to the slow pace of conventional software
development, seems astonishing.”
http://www.opensourcematters.org/
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| Webopedia |
“Generically, open source refers to a program
in which the source code is available to the general public for use
and/or modification from its original design free of charge, i.e.,
open. Open source code is typically created as a collaborative
effort in which programmers improve upon the code and share the
changes within the community. Open source sprouted in the
technological community as a response to proprietary software owned
by corporations.”
http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/O/open_source.html
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| Wikipedia |
“Open source describes the principles and
methodologies to promote open access to the production and design
process for various goods, products, resources and technical
conclusions or advice. The term is most commonly applied to the
source code of software that is made available to the general public
with either relaxed or non-existent intellectual property
restrictions. This allows users to create user-generated software
content through either incremental individual effort, or
collaboration.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source |
Organizations, Projects, Software and Initiatives
| Connexions |
Connexions is an environment for collaboratively
developing, freely sharing and rapidly publishing scholarly content on
the Web. The Content Commons contains educational materials for everyone
- from children to college students to professionals - organized in
small modules that are easily connected into larger courses. All content
is free to use and reuse under the Creative Commons "attribution"
license.
http://cnx.org/ |
| CORE -
China Open Resources for Education |
CORE - China Open Resources
for Education - is a non-profit
organization. Their mission is to promote closer interaction and open
sharing of educational resources between Chinese and international
universities, which CORE envisions as the future of world education.
http://www.core.org.cn/en/index.htm
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| CoSN K-12 Open Technologies Leadership Initiative |
The CoSN K-12 Open Technologies Leadership Initiative is
sponsored by Apple, IBM, Pearson Education, and the William and Flora
Hewlett Foundation to support the adoption and utilization of open
technologies in K-12 education around the world.
http://www.k12opentech.org/index.php |
| Curriki |
Curriki is an online environment created to
support the development and free distribution of world-class educational
materials to anyone who needs them. Curriki is a community of educators,
learners and committed education experts who are working together to
create quality materials that will benefit teachers and students around
the world.
http://www.curriki.org
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| MIT OpenCourseWare |
MIT's OpenCourseWare is a free and open
educational resource (OER) for educators, students and self-learners
around the world.
http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html
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| Moodle |
Moodle is a course management system
(CMS) - a free, Open Source software
package designed using sound pedagogical principles, to help educators
create effective online learning communities.
http://moodle.org/ |
| OpenCourseWare Consortium |
OpenCourseWare is a free and open
digital publication of high quality educational materials, organized as
courses. The OpenCourseWare Consortium is a collaboration of more than
100 higher education institutions and associated organizations from
around the world creating a broad and deep body of open educational
content using a shared model. The mission of the OpenCourseWare
Consortium is to advance education and empower people worldwide through
opencourseware.
http://ocwconsortium.org/index.html
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| The Open Source Education Foundation |
The Open Source Education Foundation's
purpose is to enhance K-12 education through the use of technologies and
concepts derived from The Open Source and Free Software movement.
http://www.osef.org/ |
| Open Source Initiative (OSI) |
Open Source Initiative (OSI) is a
non-profit corporation dedicated to managing and promoting the Open
Source Definition for the good of the community, specifically through
the OSI Certified Open Source Software certification mark and program.
http://www.opensource.org/
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| Project Gutenburg |
Project Gutenberg is the first and largest
single collection of free electronic books, or eBooks.
http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page
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| Sakai |
Sakai is an online Collaboration and
Learning Environment. Many users of Sakai deploy it to support teaching
and learning, ad hoc group collaboration, support for portfolios and
research collaboration. Sakai is a free and open source product that is
built and maintained by the Sakai community. Sakai's development model
is called "Community Source" because many of the developers creating
Sakai are drawn from the "community" of organizations that have adopted
and are using Sakai.
http://www.sakaiproject.org/
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| SchoolForge |
SchoolForge's mission is to unify independent
organizations that advocate, use and develop open resources for primary
and secondary education.
http://www.schoolforge.net/
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| Wikipedia |
Wikipedia is a multilingual, Web-based, free
content encyclopedia project. Wikipedia is written collaboratively by
volunteers from all around the world. With rare exceptions, its articles
can be edited by anyone with access to the Internet.
http://www.wikipedia.org/
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Reports and Articles
| The Case for Open Source |
The Case for Open Source. by Miguel Guhlin.
techLEARNING, February 15, 2007. Open Source has made some significant
leaps in recent years. What does it have to offer education?
http://www.techlearning.com/showArticle.php?articleID=196604245 |
| Education 2.0: The next evolution of
school software has arrived |
Education 2.0: The next evolution of
school software has arrived. by Corey Murray. eSchool News,
December 15, 2006. Emergence of open technologies and open-source
alternatives makes customizing school software a reality.
http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/showStory.cfm?ArticleID=6739
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| How the Open Source Movement Has Changed Education:
10 Success Stories |
How the Open Source Movement Has Changed Education:
10 Success Stories. Online Education Database, March 1, 2007.
http://oedb.org/library/features/how-the-open-source-movement-has-
changed-education-10-success-stories
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| Open Source 2010: Reflections on 2007 |
Open Source 2010: Reflections on 2007. by Brad
Wheeler. EDUCAUSE Review, January/February 2007, Volume 42, Number 1.
http://www.educause.edu/LibraryDetailPage/666?ID=ERM0712
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| Open Source Education |
Open source education:
Community-driven software presents a unique opportunity for hands-on
developer training. by Jon Udell.
InfoWorld, June 07, 2006.
http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/06/07/78904_24OPstrategic_1.html
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| Open-Source Pros and Cons |
Open-Source Pros and Cons. Online Learning News
and Reviews, January 30, 2007.
http://www.elabs2.com/functions/message_view.html?mid=39256&mlid=73&siteid=15988&uid=7b8b96b426 |
| Open-Source Schools: Got Data? |
Open-Source Schools: Got Data? by Dave Nagel.
T*H*E* Journal, January 22, 2007. This article discusses reservations
that an organization may have about implementing open-source initiatives
or projects.
http://www.thejournal.com/the/newsletters/smartclassroom/archives/?aid=20022
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| Open Standards, Open Source, and Open Innovation:
Harnessing the Benefits of Openness |
This report by the Committee for Economic Development (CED)
details the benefits of openness in three areas - open standards,
open-source software, and open innovation - and examines the major
issues in the debate over whether openness should be encouraged or not.
The report explains each of these three kinds of openness, details the
public policy issues involved with each, and provides policy
recommendations for dealing with these issues.
http://www.ced.org/docs/report/report_ecom_openstandards.pdf
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