This post says it all: 10 open source applications you can't live without . BTW: I really love audicity.

Connecting to others, is enabled by open source software. So this is not a blogpost on theory, but on practicalities of connectivism reality. The open source community celebrated Software Freedom Day on 20 September. "Transparency is ... open source software (FOSS) has become one of the major catalysts in increasing transparency by lowering the barrier to ... (to manipulate your picture quality etcetera) Inkscape : An Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities ... plugins . Scribus : Open Source Desktop publishing. Scribus is an open-source program that brings ...

... advantages and disadvantages of open source and free software, a space usually occupied by my colleague Jane Hart . With ... strong advocates of open source and those who were deeply sceptical. I asked the advocates to use the hour to come up with arguments against open source, and for the sceptics to come up with positive arguments. I probably screwed them ...

Wow, Inge de Waard was inspired by Software Freedom Day on 20 September and has posted an incredible list of open source tools that offer great reliability and flexibility. Please look to her posting when you are seeking software for: Graphics Multimedia Supporting software Internet Office Relaxation Thanks Inge for compiling such an extensive list.

6C Learning Blog: The new RELOAD has arrived I am going to try this new open source software. Thanx Bert!

... after a great vacation, I start with reading up on things. First thing to scroll through: the open source convention of O'Reilly . Next getting an agenda sketched out to look at all the things that need to be handled, reading all my e-mails (I really managed to leave my VL at home during my holiday).

If an eLearning course will be build with audiovisual aids, in most cases you will draw up or write a storyboard . The storyboard is useful to: make sure you cover all the learning objectives, test the continuity of the story/narrative you use to enlighten your learners keep the team of developers informed of their expected input and when their input is due. Celtx is a great storyboard software. It just upgraded to their 1.0 version ( cross platform and delivered in a lot of languages ). This software is also useful if you want to construct a podcast which is in high need of a ...

Mark Surman got me focussed on Open Educational Resources (OER) again with his great post on the Cape Town Declaration. The Cape Town Open Education Declaration is document that will be posted on the WWW in the beginning of 2008 and which builds upon other Open Education evolutions such as Free & Open Source Software Portal from Unesco who put their ideas into open education from as early as 1984 onwards. There are a lot of OER out there, just to list a few ... great open source resource for software engineeering: AVOIR ; A great and more international initiative is RAFT , ...

Posts related to the use of Open Source eLearning: Interesting Distribute Publishing Model and Open Source Open Source eLearning Business Model Innovation Geography Based and Innovation in eLearning Where are open source eLearning applications?

I am just curious what people have found in terms of open-source LMSs. Are there any good ones?

It may be 6:30 a.m., but I have not gone crazy! Anyone who thinks the idea of open sources software and Lego Mindstorms are both great ideas, needs to listen to Peter Semmelhack's podcast from O'Reilly's eTech Conference ( all podcasts ). Most everyone understands that the key concept of open source software is that the technical community freely builds upon each other's work. What is you could do the same when it comes to hardware design for electronic devices? Give some thought to Legos. If you've used Lego Mindstorms, you will understand the Bug Labs open source ...

A recent spate of posts on the challenges of running an open source business is interesting ( Tosh , Siemens , Downes ... working on your labor of love. However, there are lots of companies that are making money from open source and freemium models. A friend of mine has a company that builds open source applications in spaces that are a bit less innovative ... in fact happening) that open source will begin to become increasingly important in the eLearning world. Especially as ... : Innovators' Dilemma in Learning/eLearning , Where are open source learning applications? The discussions on ...

Software Blended e-Learning e-Learning Tools Open Source eLearning e-Learning ROI and Metrics ... Open Source eLearning : eLearning Technology Posts related to the use of Open Source eLearning: Interesting Distribute Publishing Model and Open Source Open Source eLearning Business Model Innovation Geography Based and Innovation in eLearning Where are open source ... comments links to Open Source eLearning Permalink: Open Source eLearning Bookmark ...

Gaping Void asks "is open source ready for prime time with CEO/CIO types?" Seth says wrong question, commercial is safe, open source is viewed as risky by CEO, but safe is risky and risky is safe. CIO says IT is putting companies out of business by driving up operating costs Moodle is growing like wildfire in numbers of implementations and users, but the biggest companies still implement SABA and other magic quadrant vendors because large companies can't afford ... and open source LMS space?

Most regular readers of this blog will be familiar with my interest in the use of 2D barcodes as a means of providing a link from a physical object or location to an online resource using an ordinary camera phone. I’ve just found an open-source Google Code project called ZXing , which is an open-source project to build a cross-platform barcode ... available, and because it’s open source, it should be possible to incorporate it into related educational projects ... , 2dbarcode , mobile code , open source , project , opensource , m-learning , mlearning , mobile ...

TCExam : Courtesy of amatbest54 TCExam is an assessment software system that enables educators and trainers to author, schedule, deliver, and report on surveys, quizzes, tests and exams. TCExam project was started in 2004 and now it is translated in several languages and freely used all over the world by universities, schools, private companies and independent teachers. TCExam is open source and completely free to use. I haven’t tested TCExam yet, but it looks promising.  The website promotes the following features: Free and Open Source Community ...

In my quest to realize a Star Trek-ian society within my lifetime I wish to promote free tools, eLearning tools at that. One of the great recent repositories is Jane Hart's Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies. Everyone could build a repository with free eLearning tools, but she did it by distilling the top 100 tools that were provided to her by expert eLearning colleagues from all around the world. While surfing to her list, you get a nice bonus: each tool has a small tutorial linked to it. Nice. The top 10 free tools lists Firefox, delicious, Google reader, Gmail, ...

Hear that? It’s the web world being turned upside down. The online learner’s favorite tool of all time, Firefox, will never look the same. Google just brought out an open source browser. Actually, it will be out in twelve minutes. Google Chrome leverages Google’s knowledge of page popularity, mal sights, pfishers, and so on, but the new browser sounds like it breaks new ground in flexibility, speed, and robustness. Not that I know from experience. Google enlisted the wonderful Scott McCloud to pen a elaborate cartoon that digs into the details. Don’t look ...

Good post by Harold Jarche - Where are open source learning applications? In it he points to the learning space and says that the current status of open-source learning applications is: Innovators - Elgg Learning Landscape and ... would tend to agree with him that there are relatively few open-source learning applications, but would add a few thoughts... First, open-source generally succeeds once an application domain is fairly well understood and the feature sets are relatively more stable. If you look at the slow creep up the application stack of open-source solutions (OS, ...

... via Stephen Downes ) Impact of Open Source Software on Education, Series Launch is interesting both because of the publishing model and because of the content. The publishing model is something we might want to consider at LCB . What they've done is recruit authors who are going to publish (via a blog) something between a blog post, interview and an article every other week on a particular topic - in this case Open Source. Each post will have comments, questions, etc. from readers. They have a Wiki ( "Impact of Open Source Software on Education" series, visit WikiEducator ) that ...

Just a few years ago, using open source software was a major "no no" at most major corporations, including my own. However, the software world has changed so dramatically that open source software is now part of almost any corporate environment. Thus, please link over to the O'Reilly web site and read up on the subject. They have an eBook, which you may download w/o charge titled: " Understanding Open Source and Free Software Licensing ". You will be glad you took the time. While I knew of this book, and other texts that O'Reilly makes available without ...

I am often asked to explain the different open source and free software licences.  This book, by Andrew M. St. Laurent , can be read online for free. All chapters are available as PDFs. Understanding Open Source and Free Software Licensing And for more free online books, take a look at the O'Reilly Open Books Project . It also includes The Whole Internet User's Guide & Catalog - now out of print, this was the first comprehensive user guide to the Internet.  It sold over 1,000,000 copies and was named one of 100 Books of the 20th Century by the New York Public Library.

... of Higher Education March 1, 2006 Open to Open Source Open source software has found a permanent home on some college campuses. But according to a study released today by the Alliance for Higher Education Competitiveness, open source products, which enable programmers to modify code and ... source products, while about a quarter of institutions are implementing higher education-specific open source software ... education, calls the mindset regarding open source “affirmative ambivalence.” Chief information officers ...

... nbsp;   Open Source Content in Education: Part 2 ... This is the second article ( Part 1: Free and Open Source Movements explores the history and philosophy of the openness and sharing of resources in software development) on the role of open source ... - i.e. blogs Open source movement Grassroots activities ... are required Open source content development is the model to ensure public education meets needs ...

Software Blended e-Learning e-Learning Tools Open Source eLearning e-Learning ROI and Metrics ... Where are open source learning applications? : eLearning Technology Good post by Harold Jarche - Where are open source learning applications? In it he points to the learning space and says that the current status of open-source learning applications is: Innovators - Elgg Learning ... - forget about it I would tend to agree with him that there are relatively few open-source learning applications, ...

On moodle.org, there is an informative thread debating the pros and cons of implementing Moodle over a commercial solution (Blackboard the example most discussed since most of the forum members are in higher ed). Many of these arguments are the same ones heard about any open source solution vs. corporate. It also highlights some of the misconceptions about Moodle and open source software in general. I'll be studying this as I prep for the big meeting with the senior managers. Note: You may be asked to log in. Click Log In as Guest and you should receive access to the Using ...

Toward Open Source Interview Gartner: E-learning Market Pushing Toward Open Source 6/4/2008 By Linda L Briggs With open source products ... , Gartner found "clear movement in the market" toward more open-source platforms in 2007--26 percent of platforms on surveyed campuses were on open source e-learning system such as Moodle or Sakai, and Gartner projects that number will grow ...

I exchanged emails with Tim Wang this week. Tim blogs over at Tim Wang's eLearning Blog . He provided some outstanding open source projects that he contributes too: Learning Tools: http://www.learningtools.arts.ubc.ca Pachyderm: http://www.pachyderm.org Open Croquet: http://www.opencroquet.org Ancient Spaces: http://ancient.arts.ubc.ca/ Arts Metaverse: http://artsmetaverse.arts.ubc.ca I LOVE The learning Tools Tim has authored, and links to, in the first link ... huge fan of Open Croquet. I think we are all just waiting for it too mature a little bit more. Ancient Spaces and ...

Connectivism and Connective knowledge: The Furture of Education and Training" is starting on 7 September 2008 and will be running for approx. 3 months. So spread the word and if you have the time (of course you have), join! This course will be a MOOG (Massive Open Online Course) and it will look at: - What will education and training look like in thefuture? - How must we equip ourselves to serve learners in the next decade?... The formal course description also ... Week 9: (November 2-8) What becomes of the teacher? New roles for educators Week 10: (November 9-15) Openness: ...

I may be late on this, but Inside the Net just featured a little learning2.0 app called Digication . It sounds AWESOME!  Check it out and let me know what you think.  I have a back log of apps to review and I just can't get to them all.