Re: AW: Education strategy

[obenassy]

Wilfried Römer writes:
 > Have a look at www.openwebschool.de (the Union Jack leads you to the English 
 > pages). Until now this site is basically German with the overview pages 
 > translated to English. It should be easy to incorporate other languages.
 > 
well it seems to me that your annouce is somewhat off-list, unless you
can get this organization www.openwebschool.de to replace "open
source" by "free software". You cannot ask us to support people
confusing the public with "open source" !
 
Opposite to that, I'd like to mention again here our project
         http://libresoftware-educ.org
Basically a database of schools with free software installed, but
there has been a documentation  effort too. Maybe you could motivate
some German teachers to take their part
 
 > Wilfried Roemer
 > 
 > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
 > Von: Ian Lynch [SMTP:address@hidden
 > Gesendet am: Dienstag, 7. Mai 2002 09:49
 > An:  address@hidden
 > Betreff:     Education strategy
 > 
 > Has anyone else got a strategy for developing the use of free software in 
 > education in their country? It strikes me that expecting Governments to take 
 > the initiative when there are apparently few test sites, is at best going to 
 > take a long time. In England, (Scotland has a completely different system so 
 > its not sensible to talk about UK education) there are government targeted 
 > funding initiatives involving ICT that we can use to get some significant 
 > presence. So far we have two 30 station networks in primary schools and 
 > another 5 or 6 in the pipeline. We have just installed a 120 station network 
 > in a City Learning Centre, one of the Government flagship projects with high 
 > profile. Once we get sufficient sites running satisfactorily we can then go 
 > to other schools, local and national government and say look it works. 
 > Without a number of successful and working desktop sites, few people are 
 > going to take the risk. The main problem is inability to run Windows based 
 > education software - WINE is a possibility but we have to get hold of the 
 > software to test and testing takes time. For the time being we are 
 > concentrating on low cost thin clients to do the things that are needed 90% 
 > of the time and provide advice on covering the rest of the curriculum using 
 > existing equipment. What would be more helpful to us would be transferring 
 > some of the effort from the umpteenth word processor (most are going to use 
 > open office or StarOffice anyway) to some specific support for focussed 
 > applications for education. Getting education titles to run under WINE is a 
 > high priority but difficult for a small company.
 > 
 > In broad strategic terms, getting a good presence for free software in a 
 > market sector such as education provides a profile to show others. I believe 
 > that critical mass will be achieved by getting focus in a particular sector 
 > rather than a scattergun approach. Once established in one sector the 
 > methods 
 > can be repeated in others.
 > 
 > -- 
 > Ian Lynch
 > Education Management Consultant.
 > 
 > 
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