Education & Training

The following are links to a range of selected sites devoted to 'Open' Education & Training resources, organizations, web sites, and software tools of use to government at all levels:

• COSI 'Open' Education Software - A key starting point for investigating innovative 'open' education software solutions.

• Connexions / OpenStax - A virtual environment for collaboratively developing, freely sharing, and rapidly publishing scholarly content on the Web.

• Creative Commons - Helping people to share knowledge, research, and educational materials with others around the world. Videos

• Coursera - Offering offer high quality courses from the top universities, for free to everyone across the globe.

• Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) - A directory of a wide range of freely available, online Open Access Journals covering the arts & sciences.

• Federal Government Distance Learning Association (FGDLA) - Promoting the development and application of distance learning in the Federal Government.

• Free Federal Resources for Educational Excellence - Making it easier to find teaching and learning resources from the federal government.

  • Linux Essentials - A training & certification program offered by the Linux Professional Institute (LPI) providing foundation knowledge in Linux and Open Source.

• National Training & Education Resource (NTER) - An open source education & training tool and web site recently established by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).

• Open Research & Learning - News, Blogs, Tweets, & Videos about innovative open source & education solutions.

  • Public Knowledge Project (PKP) - Providing the leading open source software for journal and conference management and publishing.

Open Education News

The educational community has discovered open source tools in a big way. Analysts predict that schools will spend up to $489.9 million on support and services for open source software by 2012, and that only includes charges related to operating systems and learning management systems. Teachers, professors and home schoolers are using open source applications as part of their educational curriculum for a wide variety of subjects. Open Source Tools & Education Apps – Datamation 2010

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Selected open source Education software for schools,

libraries, universities, teachers, and students.

* Remember to visit the COSI Open Education web site