Trouble teaching Git? New tool to try!

I discovered this interactive, online Git training tool: https://www.katacoda.com/courses/git and thought it might be of interest. The advantage (IMHO) is that students do not have to have anything other than a browser with an internet connection on their machine at all: no need for a CLI (or for everyone to be using the same CLI), etc. ...

Privacy Policy Updates

Teaching Open Source is committed to our users’ privacy and protection of their data. On May 25, 2018, extensive changes in EU data protection law (General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR) go into effect. We are using this opportunity to make improvements for all users, not just those in EU.

We have updated the Teaching ...

Sabine Wojcieszak’s Working in and with Free Open Source Software Course

Sabine Wojcieszak, (Bologna POSSE July 2017), just published a blog post on her experiences offering a course tiled “Working in and with Free Open Source Software”.  She describes her class and how she mastered being “productively lost”. Great job Sabine!!  https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/being-productively-lost-experiment-teaching-open-tos-wojcieszak/

Red Hat Honors Instructors Who Champion Open Source Education

For the second year, Red Hat is honoring the work of higher education instructors who are committed to teaching the open source development process to their students.   The majority of honorees are past participants in Professor’s Open Source Software Experience (POSSE). Launched by Red Hat in 2009, POSSE is a cultural immersion in the ...

Next POSSE in Philly — applications open!

The next POSSE workshop will be held June 18-20 at Drexel, in Philadelphia PA.  For more info and application instructions:  http://foss2serve.org/index.php/POSSE_2018-06.  Applications are due April 6.

TOS Happenings at SIGCSE! Saturday, February 17, 2018

If you’ll be at SIGSE, make sure to attend these Teaching Open Source-related sessions (use this quicklink while you’re there for easy reference: bit.ly/TOS-SIGCSE)

Time: Thursday 10am
Activity: Demo Session #1
Title: Teaching “Blinky Flashy”:​ ​Best Practices and Helpful Tips for Teaching eTextiles to a Wide Range of Students
Location: Exhibit Hall
Speaker(s): Gina Likins (Red Hat, United ...