Open-source technologies for maximizing the creation, deployment, and use of digital resources and information

• Corporate Author: IGI Global.
• Other Authors: Hai-Jew, Shalin.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2013.
• Subjects: Educational technology.; Open source software.; Digital communications.; Open-source educational video games; Open-source digital tools; Open-source interactive articles; Open-source educational initiatives; Open-source resources; Open-source strategies in higher education; Open-source technologies; Trends; Virtualized open-source networking
• Online Access: View fulltext via EzAccess

"This book highlights the global importance of open-source technologies in higher and general education by exploring a variety of issues related to open-source in education, such as its practical underpinnings, requisite cultural competence in global open-source, strategies for employing open-s...

Table of Contents:

• A model of cultural competence in open source systems / Doris Wright Carroll
• Open source approach to contemporary research: the case of geo-information technology / Dimitris Kavroudakis
• Facilitating the integration of open educational courses / Yolanda Debose Columbus
• Creating a digital learning community for undergraduate minority science majors / Gladys Palma de Schrynemakers
• Analyzing the competitive dynamics in open-source publishing using game theory / Shalin Hai-Jew
• Virtualized open source networking lab / Lee Chao
• Deploying digital educational resources with free and open source technologies / Jason G. Caudill
• Building open-source resources for online learning in a higher education environment / Shalin Hai-Jew
• Open source for higher conventional and open education in India / Ramesh C. Sharma
• Measuring language learners' speaking proficiency in a second language using economical digital tools / Peter B. Swanson
• Open source educational initiatives to improve awareness of rabies prevention / Peter Costa, Deborah J. Briggs
• The Web 2.0 mandate for a transition from webmaster to wiki master / Roger McHaney
• Creating open-source interactive articles for the wider publics / Shalin Hai-Jew
• A how-to guide / Brent A. Anders
• Creating open source lecture materials: a guide to trends, technologies, and approaches in the information sciences / William H. Hsu
• Aligning practice and philosophy: opening up options for school leaders / Kathryn Moyle
• Selectively employing open-source resources for online learning / Shalin Hai-Jew.