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Before heading out to film this story on the Open High School of Utah, I wasn't sure what to expect. I had a lot of the same questions most people would have about an online…
One of the challenges of working in the space between academia and open source communities is translating the cultural and timescale differences. One approach to bridging the…
It's taken me months to approach this article. It was going to be about the day-to-day life of tenure-track faculty. But, in the end, I can't write it. I've started this…
In early 2009, as the stories of many websites begin, a few college friends were considering what kind of project they might start together. In this particular case, the…
The following article is largely based on a talk by Andy Pethan and Colin Zwiebel, "State of Open Data in Education," at the LinuxCon 2010 education mini-summit. What happens…
In LinuxCon's education mini-summit, Bryant Patten of the National Center for Open Source and Education gave a presentation titled "Can open source save the world?" He noted a…