Article source for : How Open Source Is Changing Education
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"MIT's Open CourseWare program":http://www.iwr.co.uk/information-world-review/news/2184062/mit-puts-entire-curriculum provides a great example of how the open source movement is impacting education. The Online Education Database also lists Project Gutenberg, Wikipedia, Linux, Firefox, and Google (?) as some of the other "open source in education success stories":http://oedb.org/library/features/how-the-open-source-movement-has-changed-education-10-success-stories. Open source and open access resources have changed how colleges, organizations, instructors, and prospective students use software, operating systems, and online documents for educational purposes. Each success story has served as a springboard to create more open source successes.
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March 07, 2007 Good Morning Silicon Valley blog "posting":http://blogs.siliconvalley.com/gmsv/2007/03/time_to_start_c.html
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Windsor, Calif., School District IT administrator Heather Carver is migrating most of the district's serrvers and PCs from a mostly-Windows environment that is quickly becoming obsolete to a new mixed environment that includes PCs running SUSE Linux, Wyse Linux thin-client terminals, and a smattering of Mac and Windows machines, "reports DesktopLinux.com":http://desktoplinux.com/news/NS4958455863.html. Carver is also ditching all the Microsoft Office installations in favor of the free OpenOffice. The transition, she says, has been smooth. "One key to all this is that we're using Citrix (as the bridge) to run Windows apps on thin-client terminals -- which the adults are most used to -- on the new SUSE Linux 10.1 servers," Carver said. "The kids, well, they adjust to new operating systems and applications very quickly, so a changeover to Linux is no big deal."
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