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'Open source firmly on education agenda'

09/06/2006  
Relevance: 7.77
In an interview with Tectonic, Canonical's newly-appointed education programme manager, Richard Weideman, says the makers of Ubuntu are focusing on the education space to expose the next generation to the benefits of open source and"freedom of choice". He argues that open source is no longer"a fringe element but a cornerstone" of today's education agenda.
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Changing the Report, After the Vote

09/04/2006  
Relevance: 7.63
Except for David Ward, president of the American Council on Education, every member of the Secretary of Education’s Commission on the Future of Higher Education found enough to endorse in the draft the panel produced last month to support it over all. All of them, certainly, also found some aspects of the report objectionable, yet swallowed those objections and agreed, at a public meeting August 10, to sign the report.[How is it that Microsoft gets a seat on an education commision? - Scott]
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Israeli education looking further than Microsoft

01/10/2008  
Relevance: 7.13
Even the unadventurous Israeli education system may soon discover that there is (computerized) life after Microsoft. The country's schools will forgo Word and Windows in favor of parallel programs from Sun Microsystems. For the first time, the education system's tenders committee has authorized cooperation in principle with Sun, in a move that could undermine Microsoft's sovereignty in Israeli classrooms.
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Education Day Report from aKademy 2007

07/08/2007  
Relevance: 7.07
At this year's annualKDE conferenceaKademy in Glasgow, Scotland an entire day was dedicated to the use of free and open source software in schools and education. The main aim of the day, organized by theKDE Education Project, was to unite the many different diverse consumers (teachers, system integrators, students) and to share ideas, success stories and best practice. The report from the day is now available for reading -aKademy 2007: Education Day.
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Open Source Symposium at MIT, Features Sun, BBC, Techno Luminaries

09/28/2006  
Relevance: 7.02
Sun Microsystems, Inc., hosted an open source education symposium, spotlighting more accessible education resources, featuring the Open Source Solaris Operating System. The discussion focused on collaboration and community, in an effort to rethink traditional education models.
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School districts serve up lessons in Linux

04/02/2008  
Relevance: 6.91
Windows may boast the lion's share of the desktop education market, but the economic and technical benefits of open source software has seen many schools and education institutions implement various flavours of Linux across their desktops and server back-ends. In a two-part series, Computerworld investigates the role of Linux and open source software in education institutions in Australia and North America. In this, Part 1, the technology co-ordinator and network support technician from two large school districts in Canada and the US explain why Linux and other open source software is the plat du jour on their education menu. The institutions Computerworld spoke to are linked through School Forge, an open forum that unifies independent organisations that advocate, use, and develop open resources for education.
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France: Education Ministry encourages Open Source use

06/09/2008  
Relevance: 6.91
The department at the French Ministry of Education that is handling purchasing of software and software licenses is increasing its Open Source offerings to some 1.5 million teachers and education workers in 250 institutes France
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Linux-for-education beta released

09/09/2006  
Relevance: 6.86
African education-focused Linux distribution OpenLab releases beta version with desktop and management improvements. OpenLab, a Linux distribution widely used in education environments, today released a beta of the forthcoming OpenLab 4 release.
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Wikipedia, Ubuntu founders back 'open education'

01/23/2008  
Relevance: 6.72
Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales and Ubuntu's Mark Shuttleworth are backing a scheme to make publicly funded education materials freely available on the Internet. The backers of the Cape Town Open Education Declaration, announced on Tuesday, said the initiative is designed to echo the disruptive effect that open source had on the proprietary software world by opening up the development and distribution of educational materials.
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Linux in Education: Concepts Not Applications

06/12/2008  
Relevance: 6.70
One of the biggest arguments used against Linux in grade school level education is that we aren't teaching kids to use the applications they'll use in the"real world". As the Technology Director for a K-12 school district, I've heard that argument many times. After all these years, I still don't buy it. Truthfully, to really give kids a well rounded education, we should expose them to as many different types of technology as we can. Children should be comfortable using whatever tool is at their disposal to accomplish a given task. This isn't a new concept by any stretch of the imagination. For some reason, when it comes to computers however, the"Microsoft Mantra" is all too prevalent.
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