GNU / Linux in Education

There are many places online which examine the use of GNU/Linux software for educational purposes.

Organisations

Open Umbrella supports the use of open source in schools.

MIT has a huge section on open source - a bit academic for the beginner though.

UNESCO has conducted considerable research into a range of Open Source CourseWare Tools.

Get the whole system on CD

"GNU-Win" is a CD full of open source products for educational purposes - all the free alternatives to proprietary software - to run on MS Windows.

Knoppix is a German-based distribution of Linux - which will boot from the CD. You can order your copy for aud$9 from an Australian supplier.

.. and an organisation known as "OfSet" supplies an educational CD with full operating system and software - especially tailored for learning - to its members.

The University of Sherbrooke, in Canada, recently released a CD version of Mandrake Linux which is especially tailored for educational institutions.

LiFY comes from India - where the president has recently come out and declared that open source could help their country a great deal.

Yes - if you can read Polish, try this one.

Open Umbrella

MIT

UNESCO research

GNU-Win CD

Knoppix

Knoppix mail-order

OfSet

Canadian University Mandrake

LiFY - "Linux is for You"

Polish version

Adult Language & Literacy Learning - meets - Online & Open Source - Flexible Learning Leaders (FLL03)

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