open source

Google and Pearson and an Open eLearning Platform

Submitted by Mardster on October 18, 2011 - 9:15am

Richard Katz, formerly of Educause, put out a thought-provoking video a few years back named Edu@2020.

It was premised on a confluence of happenings in business, education and technology that would lead to a mass consolidation of learning vehicles and a major, earth-shattering change in the position of universities in this new world (utopian or dystopian? -- you choose).

The projected milestones included:
- Google scanning all books and the general digitising of all published knowledge
- Blackboard buying up all their LMS competition
- Sakai building a solid base of schools

Thunderbird 3.0 is out!

Submitted by p-dot on December 9, 2009 - 11:33am

Mozilla Thunderbird 3.0 is out!

This release of the T-bird integrates tabbing for emails, calendar, search, composing, reading and other functions, reducing desktop footprint and improving navigation.

Search has vastly improved, especially speed for large collections of emails.

Simplified configuration of email accounts (with lookups), and a large collection of loadable plug-ins for various purposes.

Enjoy the goodness!

http://en-us.www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/

Seneca's Open Source Initiative - Perhaps we should start something similar here?

Submitted by Michael Moncada on June 16, 2009 - 12:26pm

Seneca has been doing a lot of work with the open source community which has been brought into the spotlight recently by Metronews. Seneca (see: http://zenit.senecac.on.ca/wiki/index.php/Main_Page), in my opinion, is providing an excellent example of an educational organization that has chosen to officially embrace the open source initiative in Canada, potentially offering some insight into how we could preemptively model our own initiatives from - if that is a path we choose to take. An example of their Seneca's work is illustrated in this article (this is not a rickroll by the way - thanks Mike! ;)) which depicts how Seneca is promoting their students to participate in the Mozilla project.

There are a lot of good potential projects being brainstormed on this site - many of which carry the open source tone - should we should start up a team here to foster underground projects? The mic is yours...

Madrid Mozilla Technologies Course

Submitted by Greg Mount on June 11, 2009 - 8:49am

Mark Surman just forwarded me the following link to a course being offered collaboratively between the Mozilla Foundation, Mozilla Europe & Universidad Rey Juan Carlos:

http://mozilla.libresoft.es/

Very interesting case of open source meets higher ed.

Idea: IT redbook a la SourceForge

Submitted by Rouben on May 28, 2009 - 11:12pm

After seeing how cool Drupal content relationships can be, I've just had an idea. Now I have to warn you that I am very new to Drupal, so I may be assuming things here...