Archive for May 2007

Open Source Programs for the K-12 Desktop

Friday, May 18th, 2007

While we will generally only cover open education as it pertains to higher education, most of the software on this list of K-12 open source programs from Steve Hargadon is applicable to university-level education as well. Noteworthy FOSS programs on the list include FreeMind, GIMP, KNOPPIX, Moodle, OpenOffice.org, and Ubuntu. The rest of the list is worth checking out. [Hat tip to Stephen Downes.]

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eduCommons 2.3.0 Released

Friday, May 11th, 2007

eduCommons, the OpenCourseWare management system designed to support OCW projects like MIT OCW and USU OCW, has been upgraded to 2.3.0.

According to Open Up!:

Features of interest include integration of MOCSL tools (Annorate, Make a Path, Send 2 Wiki), support for MIT Content Package imports, improved RSS support for Departments and Courses, Course download for anonymous viewers, and mass copyright clearance and licensing change.

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