Open Source for Education in Europe at The Netherlands
Open Source for Education in Europe 2005 is taking place at Open University of the Netherlands today and tomorrow. As the name indicates, this conference focus on open source developments in the elearning communities. The topics cover learning with Open Source, Open standards for e-learning, sustainability strategies and open content, issues and implications. My friend Brent Simpson is in the conference to demostrate on using eXe. For those of you who are in the conference, I highly recommend this workshop. For more information on the eXe project, refer to this post.
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Comment from: brent [Visitor] · http://blog.cfdl.auckland.ac.nz/brent/
Tim: Conference has just finished and while I think it was an important conference that should continue I also think that the Open Source community in education needs to really start looking beyond the obvious arguements and complaints. There's too much preaching to the choir and the usual Open vs. Closed dialectic going on. Too much talk about LMS' will also kill these things off - LMS' are a necessary evil, there surely must be more to talk about in relation to Open Source in education. Stephen Downes gave an inspiring talk which you can listen to at his blog if you're interested: http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?post=32509 ... now off to London for some RnR
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11/16/05 @ 03:16
Comment from: timwang [Member] 
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Brent, fully agree with you. It's such a delicate matter considering the amount of work and lack of resources OS communities always face. This is even worse in the education industry where limited budget from the public sectors and narrowed focuses from the private sectors. Have a good time in London!
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