The US copyright lobby has long argued against open source software - now Indonesia's in the firing line for encouraging the idea in government departments
"This document presents options for open source software for use in the education sector. Some of these may have uses outside of education, but they are presented here in the context of their specific benefits to educational establishments, or their use in the course of teaching and learning. "
"This guide offers many lessons learned and much good practice about how to approach large-scale change in assessment and feedback practice and may be of interest to senior managers, programme teams responsible for curriculum design, any staff interested in reviewing assessment and feedback practice or in organisational change."
A central part of SCORE is its two fellowship schemes, the Short Term Fellowship Residential Course and the SCORE Teaching Fellowships. We expect to fund 36 fellowship projects between 2010 and 2012. Fellows work is expected to inform, influence and impac
Jokosher is a simple yet powerful multi-track studio. With it you can create and record music, podcasts and more, all from an integrated simple environment.
BigBlueButton is an active open source web based video conferencing project that focuses on usability, modularity, and clean design -- both for the user and the developer.
Matterhorn is a free, open-source platform to support the management of educational audio and video content. Institutions will use Matterhorn to produce lecture recordings, manage existing video, serve designated distribution channels, and provide user in
CloudCourse is a course scheduling system.Built entirely on App Engine, CloudCourse allows anyone to create and track learning activities. It also offers calendaring, waitlist management and approval features.
CloudCourse is fully integrated with Google
A new European-funded initiative is advocating an entirely new system of science publishing, in which scientists avoid the hassles of traditional peer review by taking a quietly radical step: post their results on their websites.
Boston University has become the first major US higher education institution to post its academics' research online, bypassing the traditional route of publishing papers in peer-reviewed journals, which it said restricts public access.
Google have announced a new project that's a natural extension of Google Chrome - the Google Chrome Operating System. Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Later this year they will
"we urge you to make it mandatory to consider the source of an application solution (open or closed) as part of the government's technology acquisition process, just as considering accessibility by the handicapped is required today (as defined by section
"The Government has long had the policy, last formally articulated in 2004, that it should seek to use Open Source where it gave the best value for money to the taxpayer in delivering public services. While we have always respected the long-held beliefs o
EnablingOpenScholarship (EOS) is an organisation for universities and research institutions worldwide. The organisation is both an information service and a forum for raising and discussing issues around the mission of modern universities and research ins
BuddyPress is a suite of WordPress plugins and themes, each adding a distinct new feature. BuddyPress contains all the features you'd expect from WordPress but aims to let members socially interact