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When I talk to people as a member of FSFE’s education team, there’s always the question what we are actually doing. It is not so easy to come up with something specific. I know we’ve been busy all the time, but ad hoc, it’s difficult for me to name examples, that are worth mentioning. A […] Cleaning up my notes folder, I found an article about the seven principles for good practice in undergraduate education: 1. encourages contact between students and faculty, 2. develops reciprocity and cooperation among students, 3. encourages active learning, 4. gives prompt feedback, 5. emphasizes time on task, 6. communicates high expectations, and 7. respects diverse talents […] I found an interesting news entry on osor.eu: “DK: Students to develop open source software for the Danish public sector” I think this is really great. Students get involved in Free Software development and learn a lot without using “sandboxes” and get paid while at the same time public administrations get the software they really […] Surveying Prism Reflector (cc-by 2.0) The OSS Watch Research Technologies Service published their bi-yearly “National Software Survey 2010”. I haven’t heard about it before and I didn’t even had the chance to read it thoroughly, but it looks as if it contains a lot of useful information. It would be good to have such […] Here is again a list of things I came across over the last two months: There is an article on techlearning.com (warning: terrible commercial blocker!) which answers 8 claims that are often brought agains Free Software solutions in education: Open source is way too expensive. We can’t afford to change everything! Our teachers won’t use […] Time for edu news again. The draft of the mission statement for the edu team kept me busy the last two months and will continue to do so for a little while. If you have a few minutes at hand, please read it and send us any feed back you might have! Before we come […] Here’s a little summary again of what I found noteworthy in the field of Free Software in education in the last few months of this year in no particular order: After Sam Tuke informed the edu-eu mailinglist about (k)mando recently, it was quickly put into a debian paket by Georges Khaznadar from OFSET. I’m still […] Not too long ago, I mentioned a workshop with FreeDroidz in this blog. I heard about these robots before, saw them at fairs and haven’t known much about our host, except that they are the sponsor of the Fellowship grant. Matthias asked me if I was interested in leading such a work shop at schools […] In two weeks, there will be a Jabber meeting about the activities of FSFE’s Edu-Team. We will ask for opinions on Free Software and education and the future of the edu team. Got any ideas? Well, I thought it might help if I post some of my thoughts beforehand to discuss, even if you don’t […] Unfortunately, I couldn’t follow as many news as I wanted to in the last two months. Here is what I found worth sharing: pupils working independently with freedroidz (cc-by-nc-sa) Scott Rowed wrote a guest posting in Greg Laden’s sience blog invalidating the argument that pupils should get trained on proprietary software, because that would […] |