Open Source
This document was uploaded by user and they confirmed that they have the permission to share it. If you are author or own the copyright of this book, please report to us by using this DMCA report form. Report DMCA
Overview
Download & View Open Source as PDF for free.
More details
- Words: 1,254
- Pages: 35
Open Source Software Ministry of Education Distance Education Unit 18 Abercromby Street Port-of-Spain By Henry Paul ICT Systems Co-ordinator
07/30/09
1
What is Open Source Software? Open Source Software is software for
which the underlying programming code is available to the users so that they may read it, make changes to it, and build new versions of the software incorporating their changes.
07/30/09
2
What is Open Source Software? There are many types of Open Source
Software, mainly differing in the licensing term under which (altered) copies of the source code may (or must be) redistributed. domainsmagazine.com/managearticle.asp
07/30/09
3
What is Open Source Software? Free programs created through the
collaborative efforts of programmers from around the world. www.metromemetics.com/thelexicon/o.asp
07/30/09
4
What is Open Source Software? Software that shipped with its source
code, and that subject to the nine policies of the Open Source Organisation. starlab.es/hosting/win/documents/glossary_1_
07/30/09
5
Why use Open Source Software We believe that Open-Source Software
can make a vital contribution to the improvement of technologies to support learning and knowledge-development.
07/30/09
6
Why use Open Source Software That open-source software is generally
free of cost is important to many organisations, especially small ones, but the key advantage of open-source software for education is its open-ness.
07/30/09
7
Why use Open Source Software Open-Source software can be freely
adapted by any organisation or individual to explore a new idea about learning or technology, or to change the behaviours of software to address their own learners' particular needs..
07/30/09
8
Why use Open Source Software When combined with open software
standards, open-source becomes even more powerful. Open Standards allow progress towards interoperability among different systems, and towards the development of component-based solutions instead of monolithic one-vendor systems. 07/30/09
9
Why use Open Source Software Together, open-source and open-
standards could emerge as the basis not only of more robust and usable systems, but of exciting new kinds of software to support collaborative learning.
07/30/09
10
Open Source in Education This site: http://www.ossite.org/collaborate/resources/ is useful for information and discussions about open-source and open standards movements to improve technologies for learning and collaboration.
07/30/09
11
Open Source Programming In the world of open source programming,
the computer software is distributed under licence, allowing users to change or share the software’s source code – the human readable version of a computer programme.
07/30/09
12
Open Source Programming This open and collaborative approach to
creating knowledge has produced remarkable results, such as the Linux operating system and the web-based encyclopaedia Wikipedia.
07/30/09
13
Open Source Programming In defiance of the conventional wisdom of
modern business, open source methods have led the main underlying innovations around the Internet.
07/30/09
14
Open Source Programming Other fields have much to learn from
open source methods – because they bring principles and working methods which can help to produce better knowledge, goods or services, or make them available on more widely beneficial terms.
07/30/09
15
Open Source Sites
http://www.knownet.com/products/product-in -Open Source for Collaborative Knowledge Development and Learning
http://www.schoolforge.net/ -Schoolforge's mission is to unify independent organizations that advocate, use, and develop open resources for primary and secondary education.
07/30/09
16
Open Source Sites http://www.hosef.org/
-This site shows the many activities in the open source community in Hawaii. http://www.osv.org.au/index.cgi?tid=5
-This site promotes the benefits of open source in Education
07/30/09
17
New Directions in Open Source
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/4642461.
-The The UK government's school computing agency, Becta, has said schools could save costs by switching to what is known as open source software.
07/30/09
18
New Direction in Open Source Leslie Fletcher, chair of governors at Parrs
Wood High School in south Manchester and campaigns manager for the UK's Unix and Open Systems User Group Says:
07/30/09
19
New Direction in Open Source The software a school needs to keep its
computer network running and secure, send and receive e-mail, access the internet, protect users from viruses, spam and unsuitable content and carry out office tasks such as word processing is all available free by using OSS.
07/30/09
20
New Direction in Open Source It can be downloaded from
the internet free as in "free beer" - and has very liberal licensing terms - free as in "free speech".
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/4642461.
Please read the report from the above site.
07/30/09
21
Open Source Software for Schools Open Source Software
There are several kinds of software needed in a school environment: network security and monitoring to keep the school networked and safe, grade and timetable tracking software for teachers, educational software for classes, general network clients for email and web access. 07/30/09
22
Open Source Software for Schools The SEUL/edu
Educational Application Index is a directory of school-related open source software. The Debian Jr. project has education-
related software packaged for use with the Debian GNU/Linux operating system. 07/30/09
23
Open Source Software for Schools The LinuxForKids site/project promotes
free software reviewing and rating available software, with a target audience of children under 10.
BlueEDU is a distribution of the Linux operating system focused on educational packages.
07/30/09
24
Open Source Software for Schools K12LTSP - the
K12 Linux Terminal Server Project is an easy to install, Linux-based terminal server package designed for schools.
The KDE Edutainment Project aims to
create free educational software based on KDE, the K Desktop Environment. 07/30/09
25
Open Source Software for Schools The Free Software Foundation hosts the
Savannah software development foundry. It's both a good place to look for free software and to host new projects. It helps developers offering stable network and software resources needed to spread their free software and form a community around each project. 07/30/09
26
Open Source Software for Schools OFSET's Freeduc maintains an index of
educational free software.
Freshmeat is a broader index of all kinds of open source software.
07/30/09
27
School Management Information Systems
http://www.miller-group.net/ This is an Open Source and Free School based management system.
http://www.edtechpost.ca/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/EdTech This site provides a variety of open source school content management sytems.
07/30/09
28
School Management Information Systems
http://dmoz.org/Computers/Software/Education http://dmoz.org/Computers/Software/Educatio This site provides a long list of Open
Source administrative and school management systems.
07/30/09
29
Open Source Learning Management Systems
http://kewl.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=splas This is the Free OpenSource LMS that is
been used in Cape Town, South Africa. http://www.atutor.ca/ This is the site for Free Open Source A-Tutor LMS.
07/30/09
30
Open Source Learning Management Systems http://moodle.org/ This is the site for the Moodle Course
Management System, free and Open Source
07/30/09
31
Conclusion
There is a reservoir of Open Source and Free software that is available for the Ministry of Education. The Ministry of Education ICT Policy speaks to the use of Open Standards. There are tremendous cost savings to the Ministry if such software is used. There is the opportunity to build human capacity and knowledge within the Ministry.
07/30/09
32
Conclusion It is fundamental to
the nation’s 2020 vision that our strategic personnel in the Ministry embrace this new domain and demand that the IT Unit pay attention to t Open Source Software as a method of solution to the IT/IS issues in the Ministry.
07/30/09
33
Conclusion The role of the Ministry’s strategic IT
partner companies remains important especially in providing support in this area.
07/30/09
34
Thank YOU Questions???
07/30/09
35
07/30/09
1
What is Open Source Software? Open Source Software is software for
which the underlying programming code is available to the users so that they may read it, make changes to it, and build new versions of the software incorporating their changes.
07/30/09
2
What is Open Source Software? There are many types of Open Source
Software, mainly differing in the licensing term under which (altered) copies of the source code may (or must be) redistributed. domainsmagazine.com/managearticle.asp
07/30/09
3
What is Open Source Software? Free programs created through the
collaborative efforts of programmers from around the world. www.metromemetics.com/thelexicon/o.asp
07/30/09
4
What is Open Source Software? Software that shipped with its source
code, and that subject to the nine policies of the Open Source Organisation. starlab.es/hosting/win/documents/glossary_1_
07/30/09
5
Why use Open Source Software We believe that Open-Source Software
can make a vital contribution to the improvement of technologies to support learning and knowledge-development.
07/30/09
6
Why use Open Source Software That open-source software is generally
free of cost is important to many organisations, especially small ones, but the key advantage of open-source software for education is its open-ness.
07/30/09
7
Why use Open Source Software Open-Source software can be freely
adapted by any organisation or individual to explore a new idea about learning or technology, or to change the behaviours of software to address their own learners' particular needs..
07/30/09
8
Why use Open Source Software When combined with open software
standards, open-source becomes even more powerful. Open Standards allow progress towards interoperability among different systems, and towards the development of component-based solutions instead of monolithic one-vendor systems. 07/30/09
9
Why use Open Source Software Together, open-source and open-
standards could emerge as the basis not only of more robust and usable systems, but of exciting new kinds of software to support collaborative learning.
07/30/09
10
Open Source in Education This site: http://www.ossite.org/collaborate/resources/ is useful for information and discussions about open-source and open standards movements to improve technologies for learning and collaboration.
07/30/09
11
Open Source Programming In the world of open source programming,
the computer software is distributed under licence, allowing users to change or share the software’s source code – the human readable version of a computer programme.
07/30/09
12
Open Source Programming This open and collaborative approach to
creating knowledge has produced remarkable results, such as the Linux operating system and the web-based encyclopaedia Wikipedia.
07/30/09
13
Open Source Programming In defiance of the conventional wisdom of
modern business, open source methods have led the main underlying innovations around the Internet.
07/30/09
14
Open Source Programming Other fields have much to learn from
open source methods – because they bring principles and working methods which can help to produce better knowledge, goods or services, or make them available on more widely beneficial terms.
07/30/09
15
Open Source Sites
http://www.knownet.com/products/product-in -Open Source for Collaborative Knowledge Development and Learning
http://www.schoolforge.net/ -Schoolforge's mission is to unify independent organizations that advocate, use, and develop open resources for primary and secondary education.
07/30/09
16
Open Source Sites http://www.hosef.org/
-This site shows the many activities in the open source community in Hawaii. http://www.osv.org.au/index.cgi?tid=5
-This site promotes the benefits of open source in Education
07/30/09
17
New Directions in Open Source
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/4642461.
-The The UK government's school computing agency, Becta, has said schools could save costs by switching to what is known as open source software.
07/30/09
18
New Direction in Open Source Leslie Fletcher, chair of governors at Parrs
Wood High School in south Manchester and campaigns manager for the UK's Unix and Open Systems User Group Says:
07/30/09
19
New Direction in Open Source The software a school needs to keep its
computer network running and secure, send and receive e-mail, access the internet, protect users from viruses, spam and unsuitable content and carry out office tasks such as word processing is all available free by using OSS.
07/30/09
20
New Direction in Open Source It can be downloaded from
the internet free as in "free beer" - and has very liberal licensing terms - free as in "free speech".
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/4642461.
Please read the report from the above site.
07/30/09
21
Open Source Software for Schools Open Source Software
There are several kinds of software needed in a school environment: network security and monitoring to keep the school networked and safe, grade and timetable tracking software for teachers, educational software for classes, general network clients for email and web access. 07/30/09
22
Open Source Software for Schools The SEUL/edu
Educational Application Index is a directory of school-related open source software. The Debian Jr. project has education-
related software packaged for use with the Debian GNU/Linux operating system. 07/30/09
23
Open Source Software for Schools The LinuxForKids site/project promotes
free software reviewing and rating available software, with a target audience of children under 10.
BlueEDU is a distribution of the Linux operating system focused on educational packages.
07/30/09
24
Open Source Software for Schools K12LTSP - the
K12 Linux Terminal Server Project is an easy to install, Linux-based terminal server package designed for schools.
The KDE Edutainment Project aims to
create free educational software based on KDE, the K Desktop Environment. 07/30/09
25
Open Source Software for Schools The Free Software Foundation hosts the
Savannah software development foundry. It's both a good place to look for free software and to host new projects. It helps developers offering stable network and software resources needed to spread their free software and form a community around each project. 07/30/09
26
Open Source Software for Schools OFSET's Freeduc maintains an index of
educational free software.
Freshmeat is a broader index of all kinds of open source software.
07/30/09
27
School Management Information Systems
http://www.miller-group.net/ This is an Open Source and Free School based management system.
http://www.edtechpost.ca/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/EdTech This site provides a variety of open source school content management sytems.
07/30/09
28
School Management Information Systems
http://dmoz.org/Computers/Software/Education http://dmoz.org/Computers/Software/Educatio This site provides a long list of Open
Source administrative and school management systems.
07/30/09
29
Open Source Learning Management Systems
http://kewl.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=splas This is the Free OpenSource LMS that is
been used in Cape Town, South Africa. http://www.atutor.ca/ This is the site for Free Open Source A-Tutor LMS.
07/30/09
30
Open Source Learning Management Systems http://moodle.org/ This is the site for the Moodle Course
Management System, free and Open Source
07/30/09
31
Conclusion
There is a reservoir of Open Source and Free software that is available for the Ministry of Education. The Ministry of Education ICT Policy speaks to the use of Open Standards. There are tremendous cost savings to the Ministry if such software is used. There is the opportunity to build human capacity and knowledge within the Ministry.
07/30/09
32
Conclusion It is fundamental to
the nation’s 2020 vision that our strategic personnel in the Ministry embrace this new domain and demand that the IT Unit pay attention to t Open Source Software as a method of solution to the IT/IS issues in the Ministry.
07/30/09
33
Conclusion The role of the Ministry’s strategic IT
partner companies remains important especially in providing support in this area.
07/30/09
34
Thank YOU Questions???
07/30/09
35
Related Documents
Open Source
May 2020 36
Open Source
May 2020 27
Open Source
November 2019 48
Open Source
November 2019 50
Open Source
November 2019 53
Open Source
June 2020 23More Documents from "Julita Vassileva"