The potential of open source approaches for education
April 18, 2006
Futurelab (formally NESTA Futurelabs) has just published a report entitled ‘The potential of open source approaches for education‘.
For a while we have promoted the use of FLOSS, including such titles as GIMP, Firefox, Open Office to name three.
I still don’t think that many schools are willing to make the break from paying for software, they seem to believe that if it is free then it can’t be any good, or it isn’t Microsoft!
Leave a comment if your school is using any FLOSS and if they have given copies of it to their staff and students for home.
At Barrow Primary School we use Open Office as the
John FentonAt Barrow Primary School we use Open Office as the standard office package on all of the staff and student computers. Our web site (barrow.shropshire.digitalbrain.com)includes a link to download Open Office.
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