the growing trend of open source in elearning

Presenters: Brent Harvey & Sean Hougan

The Growing Trend of Open Source in eLearning

E M P O W E R TA L E N T

Sean HouganLearning Design

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Brent HarveySales & Marketing VP

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Today’s Topics

1. What is Open Source? A Brief History.2. Why Leading Organizations Choose Open Source3. The 4 Fastest Growing Open Source Learning Technologies4. Bringing Open Source eLearning to your Organization5. Q&A

Poll Question 1

“In production and development, open source as a development model promotes a universal access via a free license to a product's design or blueprint, and universal redistribution of that design or blueprint, including subsequent improvements to it by anyone”

What is Open Source (Software)?

Source: opensource.org

Brief History of Open Source Software

1980 UseNet

1983 GNU Project

1989386BSD

1991Linux

1993Red Hat

1994MySQL

1996Apache

1998Netscape

2004Ubuntu

Source: http://royal.pingdom.com/2010/01/15/the-9-most-important-events-in-open-source-history/

Why Leading Organizations Choose Open?

Flexible, ownership, freedom to innovate, ease of customization,

no vendor lock-in, your choice, support from a global community

OPEN SOURCE LEARNING

Four Fastest Growing Open Source Learning Technologies:

1. Open Source Education Resources (OERs)2. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)3. Open Badges4. Open Source Learning Management Systems (LMS)

Open Source Learning Technologies

• UNESCO: Freely accessible, openly licensed documents and media useful for teaching, learning, accessing and researching

TextbooksLearning guides & workbooksVideos and audio recordingsCourses

Open Source Education Resources (OERs)

“A textbook licensed under open copyright license, and made available online to be freely used by students, teachers and members of the public.”

Open Text Books

• A massive open online course with the goal to provide quality and accessible education to all

• MOOCs contain:1. Filmed Lectures2. Readings3. Problem Sets4. Interactive Forums

MOOCS

• Digital badge: an online record that identifies your achievements

• Open badge: • Allows learners to gain

badges from multiple credible organizations• Can be displayed wherever

and with whomever online

Open Badges

Poll Question 2

• A learning management system (LMS) is a software application for the administration, documentation, tracking, reporting and delivery e-learning education courses or training programs.

• Organizations such as Moodle and Totara LMS have created an LMS with open source code

Open Source Learning Management Systems

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• 54,000 registered Moodle sites• 68 million users worldwide• Robust open-source platform• Supported by a global community—138 Million forum posts• Over 500 plugins • Highly flexible

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Poll Question 3

Poll Question 4

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