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Open Source Education
Miles Berry
iMoot, February 2010
Miles Berry
• School of Education, Roehampton University
• Open Source Schools• Naace• BCS, Mirandanet, RSA, C@S, ADE, ACM• Moodle, Elgg, Drupal, Edubuntu• Formerly…
What is Open Source?
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Slow Food
• Quality matters• Time to enjoy both
production and consumption• Co-producers, not
consumers• Each individual’s
contribution matters• Recognition of family,
community, locality, society
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Free (as in speech)
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So, what are the advantages?
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Issues with OSS
Procurement = PurchasingSustainabilitySupportCompatibilityExam Boards
What can you do with open source?
Infrastructure
Web based applications
Web 2.0Where’s your data?“Control through freedom”HostingAppliances
Open Source for the operating system
Portable Kit
Open Source on Windows
Wider applications…
Education
• Constructivism• Social constructivism• Social constructionism• Communities of practice• Connectivism
Open Content
• Wikipedia!• Creative Commons• OCW• OpenLearn LabSpace• National Digital Resource Bank• Linux for Education
Participatory design
The 'tinkering' teacher is an individualised embryo of institutional knowledge creation. When such tinkering becomes more systematic, more collective and explicitly managed, it is transformed into knowledge creation… Transfer is difficult to achieve for it involves far more than telling or simply providing information… This is most easily achieved when a teacher tinkers with information derived from another's professional practice.
Hargreaves, 1999, The Knowledge Creating School
