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

[Sudhashen Naicker]

Frank Kusel wrote:
> 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
>
>   
This is exactly one of the problems I am encountering


Kind Regards

Sudhashen Naicker