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The National Center for Open Source and Education exists to champion the use of Free and Open Source Software in K-12 schools, to empower teachers to be heroes to their students through the use of Open Technologies and to be the vital bridge between the United States and international Open Source and Education efforts.

This paper explores open source as a metaphor for e-learning. It builds the case that e-learning and open source movement are rooted in the constructivist movement and the constructivist movement is itself rooted in the pragmatism and instrumentalism that pervades John Dewey's theories of understanding as applied to learning. As a result, it is recommended that the use of open source as metaphor for e-learning be further explored in three areas: instructional practices, instructional platforms, and instructional philosophy.

Creative Commons interviews Patrick McAndrew of The Open University, who discusses his thoughts on the value of open content and how it can used in higher education.

The UTSeScholarship program at the University of Technology Sydney is an integrated open content program consisting of UTSePress, UTSiResearch and UTSeData. UTSePress is a major publisher of open access scholarly journals in Australia and New Zealand.

Jon Mott David Wiley

Open source software and Australian school education education.au

Education FOSS Primer - International Open Source Network Tan Wooi Tong

"HTML5 Research (MS Word 733Kb) (Opens in new window)"

"LEARN DO SHARE is the first book of a series that captures the practice of participatory storytelling experiments designed to trigger social innovation. The result of our open collaboration is a rather unusual look-do-and-think-book that explores the methods we used, pitfalls we encountered and lessons we learned when we invited 600 people to co-create a multi-perspective emergent narrative."