One of the best sessions at the Big Ideas Fest education conference in California last week was delivered by Hal Plotkin, a senior policy advisor in the US Department of…
Texas has never been afraid of bold education initiatives, and the passage of Texas House Bill 2488 in June 2009 was definitely bold. The bill, "Relating to open-source…
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There's a lot of talk about openness and transparency in the world of business these days. So we wanted to ask: What does it really mean to be an open company? Where are you…
There are a few interesting things to talk about surrounding free and open textbooks. Quality is one. Usability is another. Why to write one (and/or, why not) is certainly…
You have an open source project. You discover something that it would be really awesome to have added to your project, but you can't justify bumping it up the priority queue…
The great hope nurtured by many of us who spend our days in the open source software communities is that the fundamental principles upon which open source software is built --…
Michael Daconta at GCN has posted a brief call to arms for the software industry. Here's the gist: Although I am a believer in free markets and the benefits of competition…
Mark Guzdial, respected professor and Vice Chair of the ACM Education Board, has expressed some concerns about the impact that open source is having on computing education…
Yesterday The Guardian reported on Living Stories, a Google Labs project tested over the last few months with the help of the New York Times and the Washington Post. Now they…
On the teaching open source mailing list, the following question was recently posted: I'm advising a high school teacher who is putting together a computer programming course…
Jaron Lanier is certainly getting his share of press lately. His latest guest starring role: a rant in Monday's very special episode of L. Gordon Crozier's technology column…