Open Source Success Stories


	Open Source Success Stories
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10-21-2007 10:53 AM
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10-22-2007 1:51 AM
Marcariel
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    Bloomberg School of Public Health</A></LI>
  <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="http://ocw.tufts.edu/" title="Tufts">Tufts University</A></LI>
  <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="http://ocw.uci.edu/" title="University of California">University 
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  <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="http://ocw.nd.edu/" title="University of Notre Dame">University of Notre Dame</A></LI>
  <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="http://ocw.usu.edu/" title="Utah State">Utah State University</A></LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://oedb.org/library/features/how-the-open-source-movement-has-changed-education-10-success-stories">Organizations</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://oedb.org/library/features/how-the-open-source-movement-has-changed-education-10-success-stories"><STRONG><A href="http://ocwconsortium.org/" title="Open Course Ware Consortium">OpenCourseWare 
    Consortium</A></STRONG></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://oedb.org/library/features/how-the-open-source-movement-has-changed-education-10-success-stories"><A href="http://www.osef.org/" title="Open Source Foundation">Open Source 
    Education Foundation</A></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://oedb.org/library/features/how-the-open-source-movement-has-changed-education-10-success-stories"><A href="http://www.schoolforge.net/" title="School Forge">School Forge</A></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://oedb.org/library/features/how-the-open-source-movement-has-changed-education-10-success-stories"><A href="http://www.gnacademy.org/" title="Global Network Academy">Global 
    Network Academy</A> </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://oedb.org/library/features/how-the-open-source-movement-has-changed-education-10-success-stories">Online Encyclopedias</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://oedb.org/library/features/how-the-open-source-movement-has-changed-education-10-success-stories"><STRONG><A href="http://www.wikipedia.org/">Wikipedia</A></STRONG>:</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://oedb.org/library/features/how-the-open-source-movement-has-changed-education-10-success-stories"><A href="http://www.citizendium.org/" title="Citizendium">Citizendium</A> 
    </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://oedb.org/library/features/how-the-open-source-movement-has-changed-education-10-success-stories"><A href="http://plato.stanford.edu/" title="Stanford Philosophy">Stanford 
    Encyclopedia of Philosophy</A></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://oedb.org/library/features/how-the-open-source-movement-has-changed-education-10-success-stories"><A href="http://cnx.org/" university="" rice="">Connexions</A></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://oedb.org/library/features/how-the-open-source-movement-has-changed-education-10-success-stories"> Online Collections</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://oedb.org/library/features/how-the-open-source-movement-has-changed-education-10-success-stories"><A href="http://www.picturehistory.com/" title="Historic photograph resource">Picture 
  History</A></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://oedb.org/library/features/how-the-open-source-movement-has-changed-education-10-success-stories"><STRONG><A href="http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page">Project Gutenberg</A></STRONG>:</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://oedb.org/library/features/how-the-open-source-movement-has-changed-education-10-success-stories"><A href="http://scholar.google.com/" title="Google project">Google 
    Scholar Beta</A></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://oedb.org/library/features/how-the-open-source-movement-has-changed-education-10-success-stories"><A href="http://www.archive.org/index.php" title="Internet Archive">Internet 
  Archive</A></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://oedb.org/library/features/how-the-open-source-movement-has-changed-education-10-success-stories"> Operating Systems</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://oedb.org/library/features/how-the-open-source-movement-has-changed-education-10-success-stories"><A href="http://www.linux.org/">Linux</A>:</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://oedb.org/library/features/how-the-open-source-movement-has-changed-education-10-success-stories"> Software</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://oedb.org/library/features/how-the-open-source-movement-has-changed-education-10-success-stories"><A href="http://www.openoffice.org/" title="Open Source site"><STRONG>OpenOffice.org</STRONG></A></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://oedb.org/library/features/how-the-open-source-movement-has-changed-education-10-success-stories">Browsers</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://oedb.org/library/features/how-the-open-source-movement-has-changed-education-10-success-stories"><STRONG><A href="http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/" title="Visit Firefox">Mozilla 
    Firefox</A></STRONG>:</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://oedb.org/library/features/how-the-open-source-movement-has-changed-education-10-success-stories">Education</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://oedb.org/library/features/how-the-open-source-movement-has-changed-education-10-success-stories"><STRONG><A href="http://www.google.com/intl/en/options/" title="Google options">Google</A></STRONG>:</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://oedb.org/library/features/how-the-open-source-movement-has-changed-education-10-success-stories">Individuals</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://oedb.org/library/features/how-the-open-source-movement-has-changed-education-10-success-stories"> <A href="http://www.educause.edu/" title="Visit the site">EDUCAUSE</A></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://oedb.org/library/features/how-the-open-source-movement-has-changed-education-10-success-stories"><STRONG>Instructors</STRONG>:</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://oedb.org/library/features/how-the-open-source-movement-has-changed-education-10-success-stories"><A href="http://sage.eou.edu/SPT/" title="Visit the site">EduResources 
    Portal</A></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://oedb.org/library/features/how-the-open-source-movement-has-changed-education-10-success-stories"><STRONG>Students</STRONG>:</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://oedb.org/library/features/how-the-open-source-movement-has-changed-education-10-success-stories"> <A href="http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2007/02/giving_educatio.html" title="Read the story">MIT 
    survey of users</A></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://oedb.org/library/features/how-the-open-source-movement-has-changed-education-10-success-stories">With that said, so many open source apps and open access tools (such as <A href="http://www.elgg.org/about.php">Elgg</A>, 
  <A href="http://www.lamsinternational.com/">Lams</A>, <A href="http://plone.org/">Plone</A>, 
  <A href="http://www.dspace.org/">Dspace</A>, <A href="http://dotlrn.org/">.LRN</A>, 
  <A href="http://logicampus.sourceforge.net/">LogiCampus</A>, etc.) have joined 
  this movement with so many offereings that it's impossible to mention them all 
  here.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/996FB073-8A11-49FF-9F78-5CFE033E3A9B/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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