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5 Free/Open Source Software in Education projects that changed the world
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HFOSS, TOS (CMU/RIT), POSSE, UCOSP, and SoaS: what do these acronyms stand for, why is each a model for a type of open source in education interaction that could revolutionize the way the world learns, and what can you do to help?
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Education, Community
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40-minute presentation
[edit] Abstract
Open source and education is a vast space; these five projects highlight a broad range of perspectives and approaches for teaching students how to become open source contributors.
This talk covers:
Humanitarian FOSS (HFOSS): How do you get FOSS work to have academic credibility? Answer: get a group of computing faculty together to get their departments' work in open source funded by massive grants.
Undergraduate Capstone Open Source Projects (UCOSP): The classic senior capstone project, redefined - and for fields beyond computing, too.
Professors' Open Source Summer Experience (POSSE): How do professors learn to teach their students open source, where students work on topics their teachers don't know and the primary skill is learning to "be productively lost"? POSSE is a weeklong bootcamp that immerses professors in open source projects so they can learn how to get their students involved.
Teaching Open Source (TOS): Where does the community of practice for teaching FOSS contribution gather? Here - http://TeachingOpenSource.org (TOS). TOS is a neutral collaboration point for professors, institutions, communities, & companies around the practice of teaching open source. Within TOS, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) provide contrasting case studies on how schools large and small can integrate FOSS into the fabric of their teaching and learning, both from the top-down and the bottom-up.
SoaS: How do we lower the barrier to FOSS contribution even for the very young with limited access to computing? Sugar on a Stick (SoaS) is a project that gives children the power to run their own version of the Sugar Learning Environment from a live-bootable USB. The kicker: the engineering team is led by a high school student.
The Red Hat Community Architecture team will present an overview of how this eigenset of projects spans the Free/Open Source Software In Education space, and point out areas of opportunity for new projects to take root.
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Novice
[edit] Additional notes
This is a talk intended to be part of the TeachingOpenSource.org proposed 'Education Track'.
http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/OSCON_2010#Track_proposal
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Education