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Open source solutions are improving how students learn—and how instructors teach—in communities around the world. Read the fascinating and inspiring stories we've collected about how open source is influencing education at all levels.

Book review: 'OPEN' explores broad cultural implications of openness

Check out this book review of David Price's OPEN. He says 'open' isn't just a technological shift,...

04 Jul 2017 Scott Nesbitt Feed 25 votes 3 comments

The Kiwix offline reader takes on the world's connectivity issue

The story behind Kiwix, an offline content provider

Learn how Kiwix powers offline Wikipedia and offers other content, like all of the Stack Exchange...

29 Jun 2017 Don Watkins Feed 29 votes 6 comments

How to turn a Raspberry Pi into an eBook server

The Calibre eBook management software makes it easy to set up an eBook server on a Raspberry Pi 3,...

27 Jun 2017 Don Watkins Feed 40 votes 12 comments

How containers and DevOps transformed Duke University's IT department

When Duke started looking into taming its VM sprawl, it became obvious that not just its...

16 Jun 2017 Chris Collins Feed 42 votes

5 great KDE apps to help you study

There are countless websites that offer educational resources for people of all ages. Many of them...

07 Jun 2017 Zsolt Szakács Feed 42 votes 2 comments

A list of open source tools for college

Find out what hardware and software this university students uses every day for programming and web...

02 Jun 2017 Aaron Cocker Feed 38 votes 3 comments

5 myths busted: Using open source in higher education

How a PhD student finished his degree in fine arts using Linux despite the naysayers.

26 May 2017 Kyle R. Conway Feed 36 votes 13 comments

What does SVG have to do with teaching kids to code?

An engineer turns his retirement years into an educational initiative to teach children about...

10 May 2017 Don Watkins Feed 53 votes 6 comments

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