These are some key sites for resources related to the use of open source (and open content) in education.

Higher Education (University)

These are overall sites related to open source and higher education:

• Eduforge

Relevant articles:

• “Really Open Source,” Inside Higher Ed, July 29, 2005
• Rob Abel, “Will Open Source Software Become An Important Institutional Strategy in Higher Education?” Alliance for Higher Education Competitiveness, May 25, 2005
• Articles on open source at Educause Quarterly and Educause Review
• Ongoing IT coverage at the Chronicle of Higher Education

Learning Management Systems

Once referred to as a course delivery system, these learning management systems provided content management tools tailored to online teaching support. The available packages include

• Sakai (which replaces CourseWork)
• Moodle
• Ilias

Also see uPortal, which acts as a portal to all a university’s web pages and web-based services.

Open Content

These are courses that can be downloaded and modified by faculty at other schools:

• OpenCourseware, offering the world courses from MIT
• Sofia (Sharing of Free Intellectual Assets) at Foothill College, funded by the Hewlett Foundation

Primary and Secondary (K-12)

These sites offer information about open source software in elementary, middle and high schools:

• SchoolForge.org
• K12OS.org
• Open Source Education Foundation

Teaching Open Source Software

These sites provide resources related to teaching the creation, use or adoption of open source software

• Oregon State University Open Source Lab
• Eclipse Community Education Project

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