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"My basic point was that, right now, Second Life as a product for educators is actually dead unless something dramatically changes with the strategy of Linden Labs — which always remains unclear. With the increasing stability of OpenSim and the proliferation of grids, there is no real reason to pay a dime to Linden Labs for a virtual world experience."

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"Red Hat (News - Alert), Inc., the world's leading provider of open source solutions, announced a partnership with Rochester Institute of Technology (News - Alert) (RIT) to introduce open source to collegiate-level students. This move will arm the next generation of workers with the required skills to compete in a challenging global work and social environment. RIT with the help of the Red Hat-sponsored Professors' Open Source (News - Alert) Summer Experience (POSSE) workshops has enhanced its open source efforts, and some of its students are using their open source expertise to make a positive impact for deaf and hard of hearing children."

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"Raising open source awareness in any organization is a very important, and sometimes difficult, task. Particularly important is open source awareness among college students. These are the engineers and computer scientists of the next generation who will be able to usher these modern practices into their workplace. This article discusses the process that was used to form the Rensselaer Center for Open Source (RCOS), a very successful open source center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)."

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"The Rensselaer Center for Open Source Software (RCOS) was established with the goal of providing an environment where students can learn about open source software while sharing knowledge, experience, and insight with each other. Students can work on existing open source projects or start their own, honing their technical programming skills in an environment that allows them to work on real-world sized and styled projects while surrounding themselves with other students in many programming disciplines. They can share knowledge, share skills, and learn from others' strengths and weaknesses."

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"So perhaps it shouldn't have been a surprise that the company's first mobile application to use Alpha was similarly tailored for a refined audience and came with a correspondingly expensive price tag of $50. No doubt displeased with the response, Wolfram shortly after decided to "focus on ubiquity" and cut the price to $2. Now Wolfram is showing signs that indicate a deeper understanding of consumer sensibilities, announcing new iOS applications called Wolfram Course Assistants to help students with algebra, calculus, and music theory. They tap into Alpha's Mathematica abilities behind the scenes, but they're focused, packaged, and reasonably priced at $2 for algebra and music theory and $3 for calculus."

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"As students returned to class this week, some were carrying brand-new Apple iPads in their backpacks, given not by their parents but by their schools. A growing number of schools across the nation are embracing the iPad as the latest tool to teach Kafka in multimedia, history through “Jeopardy”-like games and math with step-by-step animation of complex problems."

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"If you can't find a college or school close to you that takes Linux seriously, it might be time to get in touch with the people who make the decisions. If other colleges are making a success of their Linux courses, and integrating them into wider IT qualifications, then there's no reason why the same can't be done elsewhere."

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"The latest international tests meant to measure the academic aptitude of 15-year-olds--the Program for International Student Assessment, whose results were released on Dec. 7--show that American students continue to lag those in other countries in math and science. In math, American students ranked 31st among 65 countries and below the average of countries in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. In science, American students ranked 23rd, on par with the OECD average. American 15-year-olds fared similarly on the 2006 PISA tests: 32nd in math and 23rd in science."

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"Red Hat, Inc., the world's leading provider of open source solutions, has expanded its outreach to introduce open source into the computer science curriculum at leading colleges and universities. As a member and catalyst in the Teaching Open Source community and through its sponsorship of POSSE (Professors' Open Source Summer Experience) workshops, Red Hat has worked with professors across the globe to teach them how to launch and incorporate open source into higher education coursework and degree programs. As the use of open source continues to expand globally, the need for graduates with open source software experience is also expected to increase.

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"Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is piloting the first full-curriculum algebra app for iPad, notes edReformer. More than 400 eighth-graders in San Francisco, Long Beach, Fresno and Riverside will learn on iPads loaded with the algebra app. They will not use a textbook."

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"Scott McNealy, former CEO of Sun Microsystems, has been a long-time advocate of free, open source textbooks and educational materials. Now that Sun is no more, he and Vinod Khosla (co-founder of Sun) are more actively pursuing their efforts to radically change the way educational materials make it into kids’ hands and, hopefully, taking us closer to a point where our reliance on expensive, dead-tree textbooks goes the way of their former company.

McNealy and his social learning/textbook site, Curriki, were profiled by the New York Times yesterday and he called out something that most of us already know: the cost of textbooks is unacceptable and open source models can completely disrupt the multibillion dollar industry to the benefit of worldwide education."

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"This is Crash Course's first offering of a multi-week, online technical course; in this case, a series of 24 (or more) lessons to gently introduce one to the joys and intricacies of basic Linux kernel programming. The first few lessons are publicly readable by anyone (and are, in fact, available under a Creative Commons license) , while the remaining course lessons are available exclusively to subscribers for a course registration fee of only $39 (CAD) for the entire course."

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"In the vast universe of Connexions, an open-source repository of course materials, Catherine Schmidt-Jones, known as Kitty, is something of a champion. She is one of the most prolific producers of “modules,” the chunks of information that are arranged — and can be rearranged — into courses. Her subject? Not English literature or math or other topics generally considered to be the core of education. It is music."

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"The total number of undergraduate majors in computer science increased 5.5% in 2008-2009, the second consecutive year that the number of computer science majors has increased, according to the annual Taulbee Survey by the Computing Research Association. Over a two-year period, the number of such students increased to 14%."

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A massively multiplayer online game requiring players to employ mathematical concepts could revolutionize the teaching of mathematics at the middle school level, according to Stanford mathematician Keith Devlin. That's the age when math and science proficiency plummets among U.S. students. Devlin says the game project would be so complex and expensive that the federal government would likely have to spearhead it. But, he said, a pilot project showed such a game would be doable.

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"This first video focuses on overcoming the learning curve in Second Life. Over the years I’ve conducted quite a bit of research in this area and i wanted to provide an avenue for current and potential teachers in Second Life to hear directly from students about their experiences."

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"The Open University has announced 'Linux - an introduction' a ten week course on the open source operating system aimed at absolute beginners."

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"Defenders of virtual worlds say that's the important number, showing that the idea of a virtual world for specific activities is already mainstream—the trick is creating a platform that will work for education. "We don't ­really understand what we can do and what we can't do with this tool for education yet, so it's more exploratory now," said Peter J. Ludlow, a philosophy professor at Northwestern University who studies virtual worlds. "We know there's something here, but we don't know what yet.""

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"The Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education (VW-BPE) is a community-based conference that provides opportunities for participants of virtual worlds to share current teaching, learning and research practices in 3D virtual environments. Conference presentations focus on teaching/learning, scholarly work, projects, events, activities and new and innovative tools for virtual education. Conference presenters’ focus on the identification of ‘best practices in education’ designed for 3D virtual world technology."

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"In these lectures, you’ll learn more about the open source philosophy and what it can be used for."

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