An interesting article! Hope it will be interesting for you!
Andrew Miller asks whether open source software can help schools use their budgets more efficiently
Looking around the British Education Training and Technology show, BETT 2009, it was clear by the sheer size of the event, that an awful lot of money is being spent on technology in education.
With Open Source Software (OSS) freely available, covering almost every requirement in the national curriculum, a question has to be asked why schools do not back it more fully, possibly saving millions of pounds.
As the name suggests, OSS is community-driven software with its source code open to all. Anyone can modify the software according to their needs and then share these modifications with everyone else.
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Solommon posted this at 15:46 — 3rd February 2009.
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Oh, this article is really interesting. Thanks... Computer technologies are growing and growing...
CSIagent posted this at 08:37 — 7th February 2009.
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Oh, it's very cognitive one...thanks...
RTFVerterra posted this at 02:15 — 11th February 2009.
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I also wonder why a third world country such as mine embraces the cost of commercial softwares, particularly ms, if a free open source is available at no cost. Thanks for sharing, I will also share this to my IT friends.
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decibel.places posted this at 03:35 — 11th February 2009.
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the article may be interesting - I have personal experience with the frustration of pitching low-cost/open source educational software to school boards in the USA - they only want to deal with "big" companies with "big" contracts.
However, this post is basically plagiarism, without even a comment on the pilfered article excerpt!
cmoyer posted this at 00:49 — 12th February 2009.
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It is interesting and I have tried to talk our school into using some open source software, the only progress I have made is the installation of Firefox, which our net admin sees is safer and better than MSIE. We also have just upgraded our network so we have a ton of older computers. I am going to try to talk our school into letting me put linux on some of them and set up a few in our lab and see who uses them. Some of the newer computers do have Gimp on them, but I think that was our Business teacher who put that on there.
Our district is a pain to deal with anyways they control 6 schools in 3 towns and they are fighting a sewage system that one town has just put into action. They are fighting it with all thier might. They even hired 6 lawers! and it would have cost less to just hook up to the system. Can you believe it!!
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decibel.places posted this at 01:24 — 12th February 2009.
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A few years back, I was unemployed and I asked my child's public school to donate one of the old computers in the closet to her.
The school board replied that they are forbidden by law to donate equipment to individuals, and that they are obliged to destroy them rather than let anybody not uder their stewardship benefit from them.
A few years later, when I was a substitute teacher, I installed my client-side quiz app on quite a few of their computers.
DavidVilia posted this at 14:42 — 12th February 2009.
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It is really interesting article. I got to know many interesting things about some new innovations in our society!
Brutal posted this at 18:51 — 12th February 2009.
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hmmmm... interest.
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Misa21 posted this at 06:25 — 3rd March 2009.
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very interesting indeed.. thanks for posting it here..
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