Education

Win a Linux training course in 300 words or less

Attention Linux developers: If you’ve ever wanted to take a class with the Linux Foundation but have been held back by enrollment costs, then here’s your chance to win a scholarship.

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1 CommentPosted 19 Jun 2013 by Ginny Skalski (Red Hat)

Getting started with HFOSS in the classroom

If we look at the big picture view, most frequently people think of student contribution as code. But student learning can span HFOSS (Humanitarian Free and Open Source Software) as an item to be studied. You can draw artifacts from HFOSS and not contribute back, although that's not the preferred model. Contributing back starts the cycle of students being involved in a community. You can start as small as one assignment.

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0 CommentsPosted 19 Jun 2013 by Ruth Suehle (Red Hat)

Like a good student, edX finishes open source project ahead of schedule

Good university students finish projects by their assigned deadlines. The best ones submit their finished work in advance. » Read more

3 CommentsPosted 14 Jun 2013 by Bryan Behrenshausen (Red Hat)

Swiss schools use Kolab, open source email suite

Over 36,000 students, teachers, and staffers at more than 20 schools in the Swiss city of Basel are using Kolab, an open source email and collaboration suite.

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5 CommentsPosted 11 Jun 2013 by Gijs Hillenius

Open source software experience for educators

The Professors' Open Source Software Experience (POSSE) workshop is being held this year in Philadelphia from June 2-4. To prepare for the workshop, online activites are were assigned to be completed in stages and culminated on June 1.

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0 CommentsPosted 3 Jun 2013 by Harish Pillay (Red Hat)

The sharing economy blooms on campus, saves Higher Ed?

Higher Ed’s in trouble, in case you hadn’t heard.

Burdened by runaway costs, unsustainable infrastructure, outrage over tuition increases, declining public dollars, and outmoded degree programs, colleges and universities are struggling to satisfy the needs of their current patrons, let alone cater to a global student population that is expected to double by 2025. » Read more

1 CommentPosted 31 May 2013 by Sonia Marcus

Could California bill mandate open access to research?

Champions of open access to publicly funded academic research had something to celebrate last week. Creative Commons is reporting (with just a touch of cautious optimism) the progress of California's Taxpayer Access to Publicly Funded Research Act (AB 609, for short), which has successfully moved through the State's Assembly Appropriations Committee and is ready for a vote. » Read more

2 CommentsPosted 30 May 2013 by Bryan Behrenshausen (Red Hat)

Google, Yahoo!, Bing collaborate for personalized education

The Learning Resource Metadata Initiative (LRMI) specification (14 properties) has been accepted and published as a part of Schema.org, the collaboration between major search engines Google, Bing, Yahoo, and Yandex (press release).

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1 CommentPosted 27 May 2013 by Cable Green

Computers are today's pencils

Not everyone has a computer. And, not all schools have access to the types of technology that are second nature to many of us at our workplace. It is also true that many people in the general public don't know about open source and the free alternatives that are available to them, like LibreOffice instead of Micrsoft Word. » Read more

4 CommentsPosted 24 May 2013 by Jen Wike (Red Hat)

Review of the new Digital Public Library of America

The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) opened last month.

(The official launch had been planned to occur at the Boston Public Library but the temporary closing of the library due to the Boston Marathon tragedy prompted that event to be postponed until the fall.)

The aim of the DPLA is to provide a large-scale, national public digital library of America's archives, libraries, museums, and cultural institutions into one portal. Leaders from 42 of America's institutions have contributed to the project, from ARTstor to the Smithsonian Institution and the University of Virginia Library. The idea of a national digital library harks to the early 1990s and the desire to provide a single portal to make cultural and scientific information available to all. It was conceived as a non-commercial alternative to Google's proposed digital library or an American equivalent to the European Union's Europeana digital library.

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0 CommentsPosted 21 May 2013 by Carolyn Fox