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White House opens website programming to public
The whitehouse.gov will look the same to most people except that what is behind it is part of the open source movement with the whitehouse code - now powered by Drupal -- is open source.
For educators, if you've found administrators objecting to the open source movement, maybe you should consider using the white house as an example.
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The online-savvy administration on Saturday switched to open-source code for http://www.whitehouse.gov - meaning the programming language is written in public view, available for public use and able for people to edit.
University of the People > Home
Just got a press release about this "the University of the People" where they say:
"Comprising arguably the most diverse university class, 178 students from around the globe will begin classes next Thursday, September 10, at University of the People (UoPeople), the world’s first tuition-free online university."
I don't know how the accreditation will work. I don't know who teaches or how this works. I do know that this sort of thing is continuing to get press and be discussed as open source hits the education movement full force. There will continue to be shake up and this is only the beginning, and yet we hear more news every day in this direction.
Universities need to understand that at some point someone is going to perfect an open source type model that does have a meaningful benefit for the participants and does receive recognition as being legitimate and when that day happens, education as we know it will transform in ways we do not understand.
NASBE Receives Hewlett Foundation Grant to Help States Review Digital Resource Policies
Open source textbooks are not going away as grants and other things continue to happen in this arena. The momentum is shifting. In this NASBE received a Hewlett Foundation grant to help states revise frameworks to allow inclusion of Open Education resources. If you work with state standards from the state level, perhaps you might want to contact the NASBE.
Hat tip to my friend Janet Grtonneberg at CAST for sending me this one.
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to help states revise their instructional materials policy frameworks to better accommodate Open Education Resources. Open Education Resources are digital instructional materials freely available for use, customization, and redistribution.
How to use Advanced Algebra II
This open source textbook by Raleigh, N.C., math teacher Kenny Felder was part of the review of the first 16 digital texts submitted to California's review program as part of the free open-source digital textbook initiative by California's Governor Schwarzenegger. This textbook scored a 96 and met 26 of 27 standards. Felder teaches at Raleigh Charter High school.
The Ultimate Open Courseware Toolset: 60+ Directories, Search Engines, and Web Tools | The .Edu Toolbox
Collection of everything open courseware.
Flat World Knowledge LLC
Interesting tidbit in their press release this week:
"Flat World has announced 17 new author
titles under contract. Flat World's in-classroom beta test gets underway this
week, with 20 participating colleges and universities nationwide."
Open Textbooks may be closer -- this model is a more hybridized version. If we had a "wiki to print" tool or technology, then we could literally have grassroots teachers writing and creating textbooks together. This is interesting to follow
GIMP - Windows installers
If you want gimp for windows, this is the page to get it from. Gimp is a powerful open source alternative to PhotoShop.
Open Source Alternative - Find Open Source Alternatives to commercial software
This amazing website helps you find open source alternatives to just about any type of software.
OnlineKnowHow.com - Open Source Finder Google Gadget
Those people who are open source junkies -- this is a great google gadget custom search engine to add to your igoogle or gadget. It will help you easily find open source software.
Dimdim: Free Live Meeting, Web Conference, Net Meeting, Online Meetings, Online Training, Desktop Sharing, Web Meeting, Free Web conferencing, eLearning, Presentation Software, Web x collaboration, Collaboration software
Opensource web meeting software. Interesting.
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