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Heidi Ellis is Professor and Chair of the Computer Science and Information Technology department at Western New England University. She has a long-time interest in computing education and has been supporting student participation in open source software since 2006. Heidi also writes about students and open source at http://heidiellis.wordpress.com/
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Great article. You've done a great job of highlighting why education needs to change.
Thanks for the encouragement Jeremy. I agree that local culture plays a large role in how much openness you can adopt in the classroom. My provost is fully behind the idea which helps a lot!