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It is quite daunting to be one of the first bloggers on this site for many reasons. First off, most teachers have never heard the term Open Source Software. Even if they are ICT co-ordinators or network managers, they may not see the need to look into what it is and how it can underpin and transform their teaching. What relevance has it got for them?

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At a time when every government minister exhorts us to build the knowledge economy and we are told that the economic wellbeing of the UK is increasingly dependent on our ability to create and support a Digital Britain, its fortunate the United Kingdom has several strengths in this area. We have the largest computer games industry in Europe, a thriving culture of bedroom entrepreneurs creating digital culture in everything from music and computer programming to fashion, and information and computing technologies as a core part of the educational system. How has this come about?

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I'm old enough to have made it to my third year at university before I got to touch a computer, and although it was many years ago now I still try to remember what it was like to sit at a keyboard with absolutely no understanding of what was going on behind the scenes as I typed.

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Learning, in its broadest sense, is always open ended, it does not finish or close. Similarly, I'm not sure what 'Learning - Closed Lab' would look like. Whatever it may be, it's not what this project is about anyway...

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One of the problems with proprietary systems is that it isn't easy for the people who are doing the teaching to drive innovation; the open source philosophy (and support for more student-centric, constructivist pedagogy) behind Moodle and Sakai makes them more "evolvable."

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I was pretty intrigued by the idea of "open learning", in particular the creation of an environment for sharing ideas, transferring knowledge and sharing resources at the BBC. This prompted a few thoughts on learning from my perspective as a BBC outsider, an Open Source developer.

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The free software movement have identified the four freedoms underpinning open source software, and these offer compelling reasons for educators to look seriously at this software.

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