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Re: AW: Education strategy
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Re: AW: Education strategy |
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Wed, 8 May 2002 09:56:50 +0200 |
Wilfried Römer writes:
> Have a look at www.openwebschool.de (the Union Jack leads you to the English
> pages). Until now this site is basically German with the overview pages
> translated to English. It should be easy to incorporate other languages.
>
well it seems to me that your annouce is somewhat off-list, unless you
can get this organization www.openwebschool.de to replace "open
source" by "free software". You cannot ask us to support people
confusing the public with "open source" !
Opposite to that, I'd like to mention again here our project
http://libresoftware-educ.org
Basically a database of schools with free software installed, but
there has been a documentation effort too. Maybe you could motivate
some German teachers to take their part
> Wilfried Roemer
>
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Ian Lynch [SMTP:address@hidden
> Gesendet am: Dienstag, 7. Mai 2002 09:49
> An: address@hidden
> Betreff: Education strategy
>
> Has anyone else got a strategy for developing the use of free software in
> education in their country? It strikes me that expecting Governments to take
> the initiative when there are apparently few test sites, is at best going to
> take a long time. In England, (Scotland has a completely different system so
> its not sensible to talk about UK education) there are government targeted
> funding initiatives involving ICT that we can use to get some significant
> presence. So far we have two 30 station networks in primary schools and
> another 5 or 6 in the pipeline. We have just installed a 120 station network
> in a City Learning Centre, one of the Government flagship projects with high
> profile. Once we get sufficient sites running satisfactorily we can then go
> to other schools, local and national government and say look it works.
> Without a number of successful and working desktop sites, few people are
> going to take the risk. The main problem is inability to run Windows based
> education software - WINE is a possibility but we have to get hold of the
> software to test and testing takes time. For the time being we are
> concentrating on low cost thin clients to do the things that are needed 90%
> of the time and provide advice on covering the rest of the curriculum using
> existing equipment. What would be more helpful to us would be transferring
> some of the effort from the umpteenth word processor (most are going to use
> open office or StarOffice anyway) to some specific support for focussed
> applications for education. Getting education titles to run under WINE is a
> high priority but difficult for a small company.
>
> In broad strategic terms, getting a good presence for free software in a
> market sector such as education provides a profile to show others. I believe
> that critical mass will be achieved by getting focus in a particular sector
> rather than a scattergun approach. Once established in one sector the
> methods
> can be repeated in others.
>
> --
> Ian Lynch
> Education Management Consultant.
>
>
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