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Tag: OpenSource

  • Open Education Resources in Washington State

    OER K-12 Bill Passes in U.S. Washington State From the Creative Commons Blog and I think it is about time someone actually addressed key issues in Education and this is indeed one of them. There was exciting open policy news from U.S. Washington State (WA) last evening. HB 2337 “Regarding open educational resources in K-12…

  • Teaching and Learning with Moodle

    From Moodle.org by Helen Foster – Friday, 19 March 2010, 09:39 PM I’m pleased to announce a new course on moodle.org – Teaching and Learning with Moodle! According to Tomaz Lasic, Moodle HQ’s Education Researcher, in his welcome message, The main aims of the space are to: provide a clear, synthesised and relatively gentle ‘intro to Moodle’ to new…

  • Five Percent Solutions: 6 Sites to Learn Something New

    How can we ever find the time to actually learn something new? Use Five Percent of your time on one of these sites everyday and you may be amazed at the results. 1. 5min 5min Media is the leading syndication platform for broadband instructional, knowledge and lifestyle videos. Our library includes tens of thousands of videos…

  • How to Run a Successful Free Software Project

    Producing Open Source Software Producing Open Source Software is a book about the human side of open source development. It describes how successful projects operate, the expectations of users and developers, and the culture of free software. The book is released under an open copyright: it is available in bookstores and from the publisher (O’Reilly…