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…
Digital technology and open educational resources have enormous potential and power with young children. For parents of special needs children, especially those who are blind…
For those who haven't heard, the Obama administration recently announced $2 billion in funding for 2-year colleges, much of which will be used to produce open educational…
While mainstream attention has been focused on MOOCs, the Open Educational Resource university ( OERu) has been developing a parallel education offering which is distinctively…
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has announced the National Education Technology Plan. For the first time, the Obama strategy for education is spelled out in great…
While the OER community owes some of its genesis to the open source and free software movements, there are some aspects of how and why these movements work that I think are…
When I started working at the Raspberry Pi Foundation, we set out to revamp the website and add learning materials for educators. In the mean time, we wanted to get a few…
From James Bowes' article, A code hosting comparison for open source projects: If you're starting a new open source project, or open sourcing some existing code, you'll need a…
Once a piece of software is installed on a user's system, how do you keep it updated? While Linux users typically have a package management system to pull latest versions from…
Being a hardcore developer who cares deeply about software, and having worked for local government for the past eight years, I have pondered this question often. On the one…
The M programming language is also known as MUMPS. Which stands for Massachusetts General Hospital Utility Multi-Programming System. Read my earlier post introducing the multi…
A few weeks ago I gave a talk entitled " Breaking the Software Death Cycle with Domain Driven Design" at the New York DDD Meet-up at Microsoft. Domain Driven Design (DDD) is a…