FLOSS In School - Open Source Software in the Education System

Ivy Anderson has posted “model” language for author’s rights in library content licenses. From the post:

Authors of scholarly work also increasingly wish to retain significant rights in the work that they produce rather than transferring all such rights to an external publisher.

Cathy Anderson has a new post exploring what openness means to various organizations. From the post:

Open Education Resources, Open Knowledge, Open Textbooks, Open Access, Open Source, Open Courseware, these are all terms that define the revolution in how we access information, who has access, and what we access. This revolution was driving by the technology that underpins the Internet and provides ubiquitous access to the world’s knowledge, information and resources.

Last week MIT OCW released short announcement that it would be moving to Plone, an open source content management system. Plone was also the platform for eduCommons. From the post:

Moving 1,981 courses along with all associated PDFs, images and other resources is going to take some time. For the next few weeks, you won’t see any new courses on OCW, and we won’t have a new feature in this space.

Thanks to Dylan Jay for the link.

Marble has just been ported to the Nokia N900! The user interface got adapted and GPS now works with Maemo. Join our team at marble.garage.maemo.org and help us to create a Marble MeeGo version!

Playing with open map data can be a fun pastime. Creating and editing open data can be not only fun, but also a boost for free data to go along with free software. [...] Marble is one of the best-known map-viewers for Linux.