Using computers in schools is as much about helping with learning, as teaching the use of the computers themselves. Teachers must be able to use them too, in order to help students. The ECDL (European Computer Driving License, also known as the ICDL International Computer Driving License) standard is a common set of learning requirements about the operation of a modern GUI PC, and its applications. While fairly popular and theoretically platform neutral, the ECDL has been complemented with books, courses, and e-learning tools that are all Microsoft Windows, and Microsoft Office based, effectively excuding that FOSS could be learned by those attending ECDL courses. We have developed to fill up this void http://www.openicdl.com/ which is an interactive online e-learning course based on Linux, Mozilla, and OpenOffice.
Schools that want to adopt FOSS based curricula are using OpenICDL to first teach their teachers, and successively their students.
The development of native applications for Linux is a better path for both Linux adoption, and for the companies that make them: a Linux program tends to be free, or much cheaper than their MS Windows equivalents, and the newcomer is more likely to benefit from the novel market than the established player. This is the reason Lindows does not pursue anymore the compatibility route in Linspire. Actually they released Lsongs, a music playing, organizing, ripping, burning application, exactly to fill in a whole in easy to use Linux applications.
Ease of installation, auto-discovery and configuration of peripherals and networks go for Linspire, too.
CNR - click and run - is the system by which Linspire users can get both programs and services delivered to their system in a seamless way.
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Using computers in schools is as much about helping with learning, as teaching the use of the computers themselves. Teachers must be able to use them too, in order to help students. The ECDL (European Computer Driving License, also known as the ICDL International Computer Driving License) standard is a common set of learning requirements about the operation of a modern GUI PC, and its applications. While fairly popular and theoretically platform neutral, the ECDL has been complemented with books, courses, and e-learning tools that are all Microsoft Windows, and Microsoft Office based, effectively excuding that FOSS could be learned by those attending ECDL courses. We have developed to fill up this void http://www.openicdl.com/ which is an interactive online e-learning course based on Linux, Mozilla, and OpenOffice. Schools that want to adopt FOSS based curricula are using OpenICDL to first teach their teachers, and successively their students.
Ease of installation, auto-discovery and configuration of peripherals and networks go for Linspire, too. CNR - click and run - is the system by which Linspire users can get both programs and services delivered to their system in a seamless way.