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Open Source in Education

Yesterday ComputerWorldUK posted Open source in schools could save the taxpayer billions about the growing impact of Open Source solutions for schools. The growing movement of free resources for education including software and opencourseware solutions continue to thrive. This movement is leading a revolution in education.

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Google Apps for Education permits any school to tap free, industrial strength resources including: Gmail, GoogleTalk, Calendar, Docs, Sites & Start Page. This solution is standards based while integration is seemless.

Schools continue to face dwindling budgets, staff reductions and program cuts. Lets face facts, globalization also forces schools to implement technology refresh programs, turning over computer labs every 3 or 4 years via equipment leasing. The continued use of commercial software (inlight of Google’s offering to the education community) is a sign of simple fiscal mismanagement.
Looking for a success story to actually justify free software for schools? Click Here for the large number educational organizations (K-12 & Higher Education) that have already migrated to Google Apps for Education.

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Knowledge moving open source

This week both Harvard and MIT have chosen to share knowledge for free over the internet. Harvard will begin to freely distribute research via the internet to enhance the speed of online learning. The details for publishing content by faculty has already been distributed and only technical work needs to be finished. A projected opening date is set for early April.

MIT‘s OpenCourseWare project has now been extended to reach High School students. The OCW site for high school students provides audio and video lectures along with class assignments from almost 2,000 courses taught at MIT. Over 5,000 high school students already visit the OCW site monthly. Resources include content designed for teachers.allowing them to repurpose knowledge in their classrooms.

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OLPC moving to $50

Nicholas Negroponte’s presentation of the American Academy for the Advancement of Sciences revealed production of his OLPC units have surpassed 110,000/month. The conference theme is “Science and Technology from a Global Perspective” is underway in Boston this week.

He has also projected next year the price will drop to $100/unit, the original price tag when the project began…and should drop to just $50 in 2011.

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Happy Valentine’s Day … from Google

Today Google is expected to offer business a new software service to make it easier for organizations to share documents and data via a new application called Team Edition.

This software should help Google continue to compete against Microsoft and in an odd way, Yahoo which may or may not end up being bought out eventually by the software giant in Redmond.

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Latest read: Making Globalization Work

If you were first introduced to globalization via Tom Friedman‘s The World Is Flat, you may be interested to learn more about this wave of economics. Many point to the recent book by Joseph Stiglitz called Making Globalization Work. This is a follow-up to his 2003 book Globalization and Its Discontents.

Stiglitz is professor of economics at Columbia. He served as Chairman of President Clinton’s Council of Economic Advisers from 1995-97. He followed that appointment by serving as Chief Economist and Senior VP of the World Bank from 1997-2000. Stiglitz was one of three to receive the 2001 Noble Prize in economics.

He accurately addresses areas of economic globalization that continue to fail across the globe in shaping market opportunities of underdeveloped nations. Needless to say the real golden rule applies: He who has the Gold makes the rules.

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