Mary Ann Bitter

1049 points

Raleigh, NC

Mary Ann Bitter is a Creative Strategist for Red Hat's Marketing Communications & Design team. She lives at the intersection of business and design and believes the open source values have never been more relevant than they are today. She is passionate about problem solving and working with people who give a damn.

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Authored Content

Thoughts on President Obama's comments on higher education on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon

President Obama was on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon which was recorded at the University of North Carolina. Higher education and student loans were a big part of their…

Team operating principles: the open source way

Teaching open source: Team operating principles that can be used on any project

Matt Jadud and Mel Chua have been friends of opensource.com from the beginning. Together with others they "are working on (the) Craft of Electronics, a curriculum for college…

Infographic: The higher education bubble, Part two

In part one of this infographic series, we looked at the circumstances surrounding a “bubble” forming and the specific three factors for higher education: the dramatic…

Infographic: The higher education bubble, Part one

We often talk about the higher education bubble and it being on the verge of bursting but what does that really look like? How does a “bubble” form and what causes it to burst…

leadership through influence poster in a classroom with a teacher and students

$25,000 prize: "Why Open Education Matters" video competition

Creative Commons, the U.S. Department of Education, and the Open Society Foundations are offering up to $25,000 in cash prizes to "the best short videos that explain the use…

5 questions with StudentsFirst's Michelle Rhee on education reform

The name Michelle Rhee most likely rings a bell because of all the hard work she put towards reforming the Washington, DC public schools as Chancellor from 2007 to 2010…

Authored Comments

Mary Ann

21 Dec 2011

Open Source Physics wins award for online education

Corrected. Thank you!

Mary Ann

22 Aug 2011

Education Reform: Insert your favorite "Wrath of Khan" joke blog title here

I'm interested in how teachers can use Kahn Academy for the traditional classroom (K-12). I think there is something huge there and in some ways turns the traditional model on its head. For homework, students review a section in Kahn Academy & during class they are working on solutions -- together as a class , separate, in groups -- building projects and applying what they learned and getting feedback real-time vs. taking in instructions during class and leaving a decent amount of exploration for homework.

Thoughts from those in the classrooms?