How Open Source Is Changing Education

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday March 5, 2007 @10:29PM from the apple-for-the-penguin dept.

ftblguy writes "MIT's Open CourseWare program provides a great example of how the open source movement is impacting education. The Online Education Database also lists Project Gutenberg, Wikipedia, Linux, Firefox, and Google (?) as some of the other open source in education success stories. Open source and open access resources have changed how colleges, organizations, instructors, and prospective students use software, operating systems, and online documents for educational purposes. Each success story has served as a springboard to create more open source successes."

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Re: Wikipeida's success by Lobais · 2007-03-06 01:58 · Score: 5, Informative

Well, I think Wikipeida's success is rather proven. Just look at the google trafic: http://www.google.com/trends?q=wikipedia
And the reliability studies show that Wikipedia is just about as reliable as Britannica: http://news.com.com/2100-1038_3-5997332.html
Furthermore it puts light on the fact, that you always have to cross test your informations, no matter the source.

How can that not be success?