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By Steve Swettenham November 14, 2012 - 10:12am Comments (8)learning at a distancePolicy on Adoption of Open Source Software for Government of India
By Colin Elliott 30 March 2015 @ 3:35pm Comments (1)Posted to group: Open Source Softwaredeity.gov.in - "The Indian government announced a policy yesterday that makes it mandatory to use open-source software in building apps and services, in an effort to 'ensure efficiency, transparency and reliability of such services at affordable costs.'" ...- By Mark A. McCutcheon March 23, 2015 - 11:51am"I Can Text You A Pile of Poo, But I Can’t Write My Name": a sharp essay on imperialism and racism in Unicode and emoji http:/
/ is.gd/ JKm0rf - By Terry Anderson September 23, 2014 - 3:22pmCongrats to Dr. Jan Thiessen for succesfuly defending her EdD dissertation this afternoon - Interaction in Self-paced Study at a Distance.
Google to pull the plug on Google Code
Posted to group: Open Source SoftwareMillions of broken links as Google's proprietary project hosting system will be shut down.Microsoft under GDPR microscope for Office 365 and OneDrive | Alphr
By Jon Dron 15 November 2018 @ 12:04pm Comments (4)www.alphr.com - No big surprises here to anyone that has ever so much as glanced at Microsoft's business model and historical abuse of its customers, but definitely a matter of concern for organizations (like Athabasca University) that rent their services from...
How to Get a Decent Grade on an Essay, or “Writing Tips for Students Who Suck at Writing”
Last updated April 13, 2014 - 11:57am by sarah beth Comments (2)Writing is a fact of university life, but not everyone likes to do it, and not everyone is particularly good at it. If you don’t make it out of undergrad without at least the ability to communicate clearly, you’re going to be pretty...Learnium
By Jon Dron 25 April 2017 @ 4:54pm Comments (5)www.learnium.com - Learnium is yet another attempt to overlay a cloud-based social medium on institutional learning, in the same family as systems like Edmodo, Wikispaces Classroom, Lore, GoingOn, etc, etc. I deliberately exclude from this list the far more excellent,...How open source delivers for government
By Viorel Tabara 3 October 2016 @ 6:14pmPosted to group: Open Source Softwareinfo.crunchydata.com - Note that in their view, proprietary solutions are "legacy". A simple example of how the move toward OSS can improve IT architecture is by thinking about database backups. In the legacy regime of licensed closed source software, each license of...VQR » What Is the Business of Literature?
By Jon Dron 23 March 2013 @ 11:43am Comments (1)www.vqronline.org - A fantastic article by Richard Nash ostensibly on how books and associated technologies have evolved and may continue to evolve, but really a meditation on the nature of culture, technology and society. The punchline is that the business of...
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