Syndicated: Wikipedia, Ubuntu founders back ‘open education’

Thursday, January 24th, 2008 Posted in Education | 1 Comment »

From ZDNET: Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales and Ubuntu's Mark Shuttleworth are backing a scheme to make publicly funded education materials freely available on the internet. The backers of the Cape Town Open Education ... Read more..

Why Schools Should Exclusively Use Free Software

Sunday, January 13th, 2008 Posted in Education | No Comments »

Although I am a very content Mac user and also very pleased with the Mac-based infrastructure in my school, Richard Stallman makes a very good point in his article entitled ... Read more..