Interesting article, and now I wish I had managed to make it to that talk. Maddog always gives interesting lectures.
A good project to look into for a slightly different application of open source in education is Flat World Knowledge. The idea of teaching FOSS methodology dovetails rather nicely with creative commons text books. Students could write up improvements to their text books as a collaborative group project.
It was great to have met you at POSSCON, Mel.
Interesting article, and now I wish I had managed to make it to that talk. Maddog always gives interesting lectures.
A good project to look into for a slightly different application of open source in education is Flat World Knowledge. The idea of teaching FOSS methodology dovetails rather nicely with creative commons text books. Students could write up improvements to their text books as a collaborative group project.