Harness Your E-Teaching with Free Apps: Interesting Review of Open Source VS Commercial Software

Piyapot TantaphalinAssist. Prof. Dr. Jintavee Khlaisang

Faculty of Education, Chulalongkorn University

What is free/open source software?

FreewareVS

Free software

What is free/open source software?

iSpring Free

1.Free Redistribution2.Source Code3.Derived Works4.Integrity of The Author's

Source Code5.No Discrimination Against

Persons or Groups6.No Discrimination Against

Fields of Endeavor 7.Distribution of License 8.License Must Not Be Specific

to a Product 9.License Must Not Restrict

Other Software10.License Must Be

Technology-Neutral

Definition of Open Source Software (Open Source Initiative ,2010)

Free/open source software with copyleft

• Freedom in using for any objective.• Freedom in process of program

study and code editing (source code access is necessary for this aspect)

• Freedom in distributing program.• Freedom in modify and open for

anybody to use and develop later. (source code access is necessary for this aspect)

Where can I find free/open source software?

http://sourceforge.net/

Where can I find free/open source software?

http://freshmeat.net/

Where can I find free/open source software?

http://www.osalt.com/

Image Editing and Graphic Drawing Tools

Photoscape

Image Editing and Graphic Drawing Tools

GIMP

Image Editing and Graphic Drawing Tools

Inkscape

Graphic Organizer Tools

DIA

Freemind

Office Tools

OpenOffice.org

Office Tools

PDFCreator

Courseware Authoring Tools

Example courseware - by exe

Example courseware - CourseLab

Website Creating and e-Learning Supported Tools

Adobe Dreamweaver CS4

Kompozer (Open source)

Website Creating and e-Learning Supported Tools

http://www.bangkokplanetarium.com/

http://www.windsiam.com/

Website Creating and e-Learning Supported Tools

http://e-learning.thaihealth.or.th/e-

learning/

SUMMARY

Tools Commercial Open Source

GraphicDiagram

Office

Convert PDFCoursewareWebsiteCMS&LMS

Flash

Captivate

Dreamweaver

Kompozer

Blackboard

Courselab

eXe

PDFCreatorAcrobat Pro

OpenOfficeMS-Office

DIA

FreemindVisio

MindManager

Photoshop

Illustrator

GIMP

Inkscape

SUMMARY

“Free/Open source software is not alternative rather it is the first

choice for software users who are well aware of copyright and

software piracy concerns. Also, because of they are beneficial,

compatible, easy to use, and most importantly it is free”