[ubuntu-za] Free and Open Source Software in Schools

[Frank Kusel]

Hilton Theunissen wrote:
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> We have several very successfull schools but that is in the minority. 
> Saxonworld primary school in johannesburg is a very successfull 
> commercial model. We did so well over the past year that school extended 
> the network to teacher workstations into every classroom. 55 diskless 
> fat terminals running from single ubuntu ltsp.org server.
>
> Getting back to floss in schools - do it commercially and use new 
> hardware. Deploy a full-time IT teacher. Purchase propriety Educational 
> content - must be delivered via browser. Set your SLA for a visit twice 
> a week in 1st 6-12months. Upgrade software every 12months.  Have a 
> certification roadmap - Ingots delivered that for tuXlab schools. We 
> have e-learning solution for OpenICDL but the adoption rate is not good 
> at all.
>
>   
>
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In my experience the biggest hurdle is IT teachers who are not remotely 
interested in or brave enough to try FOSS solutions - mostly because 
they are afraid of looking silly, or that it will be too difficult.

I'm not sure how one would counter this.

Regards,
Frank

-- 
Frank Küsel
ANSYS Limited

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