Someone recently reminded me that Open Education Week is just around the corner: March 5-10, a little over a month away.
So, in the spirit of openness, I picked up the following list of open source project that you might not know about, which recently turned up in PC World. They published a list of the top ten ‘newcomer’ open source projects…you can check out the full list over there, but I’ve chosen to highlight just a few which *may* be relevant to something you’d like to do in learning and teaching:
- BrowserID, easy-peasy signin…a secure, decentralized, open source, cross-browser way to sign onto websites based on the user’s email address cut down on remembering (and forgetting all those passwords)
- Canvas, a new learning management system (and new to me, where have I been?)…billed by Black Duck as “the only commercial open source learning management system and the only LMS native to the cloud”
- Mooege, an open source educational game server emulator
- Orion, a browser-based open tool integration platform built by the Eclipse platform team
- rstat.us, a microblogging platform that’s set apart by its simplicity and openness…maybe the twitter alternative you’ve been looking for?
Have a look.
