TheOpenAnalyst

If you haven’t read the news, the Australian state of New South Wales has signed a deal to deploy 267,000 Windows netbooks into secondary schools, as part of the Australian federal government’s multi-billion dollar netbook-in-schools programme. This was a golden opportunity to explore the deployment of Linux and open source software in education. An opportunity [...]

Bill Foster (right), the physicist and Democrat who succeeded former Speaker Dennis Hastert in Congress, has what you might call a cunning open source plan.
Any federal agency spending over $10 million on scientific education should put 2% of that money into creating open source materials, posting them on the Web for students, and updating them.
Foster [...]

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SINGAPORE–Local institute of learning, Republic Polytechnic, has partnered IBM and Red Hat to groom IT professionals with expertise to meet rising adoption of open source software and mainframe virtualization.
The institute has launched a new course that provides training on IBM’s System z mainframe based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
At a media briefing Wednesday, [...]

A demonstration version of the UK’s first government-backed national open source IT project, is to go live in two weeks’ time.
The National Digital Resource Bank (NDRB) will provide content for digital learning systems to schools free of charge.
UK’s first national open source IT project to demo soon | ComputerWeekly.com

The release of an “open source” physics textbook by the state of Virginia is a serious milestone.I put the words “open source” in quotes because, while the work has a Creative Commons attribution license and was built using open source tools, its chapters are all bylined and it was done with strict peer review.
An open [...]

Not too long back, I shared my thoughts with you on how there seems to be a real disconnect with US schools and desktop Linux. Differences of opinion were exchanged in the comments area of the article and I gained some new insight along the way.
The point that was driven home to me the most, [...]

Remember back in 2008 when a teacher named “Karen” made a remark about using Linux holding her students back? The idea apparently being that students using Linux must somehow be participating in something that is illegal.
Later, apologies ensued despite new wounds on both sides of the issue being created. Seems to me that this is [...]

Secretary of Technology Aneesh Chopra and Secretary of Education Tom Morris has released a Request for Collaboration (RFC) to career and technical centers, school divisions, and institutions of higher education calling for assistance in the development and publication of an open source physics “Flexbook” for Virginia.
The Virginia Physics “Flexbook” project is a collaborative effort of [...]