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Wednesday, June 15, 2005 |
Major Implementation of .LRN Open Source
CMS. I'll just quote Scott Leslie: "Just to
follow up on last week's posts concerning adoption of some
open source apps that have been unfairly dissed as not
being 'enterprise ready,' this news story from the .LRN
site reports that The Universidad Nacional de Educación a
Distancia (UNED) is moving their approximately 200,000
students onto the .LRN platform." The post contains
several links to original sources. By Scott Leslie,
EdTechPost, June 15, 2005
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11:03:23 PM  Google It!.
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Open Source in Education - Something Has
Got to Change. James farmer takes a more conciliatory tone
after his anti-WebCT rant last week, but he doesn't back
down on the open source issue (nor should he). He writes,
"I contend that our universities, schools and other
educational institutions are wasting enormous amounts of
money and making huge mistakes using commercial software
where open source software could do as good as or better a
job." I agree with this, especially when public
institutions pay for this software (and educational content
generally) though taxpayer contributions. He continues,
"I despise the way education is
turning into a cash cow for vendors. We should be spending
what little money we have on teachers, genuinely valuable
resources and teaching and learning." By James
Farmer, incorporated subversion, June 14, 2005
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11:23:56 AM Google It!.
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