Abstract
Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) exemplifies the merit and successes of open content, understood broadly as creative work that explicitly allows sharing and further changes by anyone, whether an individual or organization. Although the benefits of improving computing education with open source practices are largely acknowledged, transforming teaching to create effective learning environments has many challenges. The panelists will bring different perspectives on teaching strategies and curricular content they have used in their classrooms. These perspectives will exemplify key issues with FOSS-based education and FOSS-based IT systems. The developer and user communities established around FOSS-based IT systems are of particular interest to the IT discipline because of its focus on user centeredness and advocacy for advancing professional practices in authentic environments.
Publication Date
10-20-2011
Journal Title
Proceedings of the 2011 conference on Information technology education
Publisher
ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
Document Type
Article
Recommended Citation
Stephen Jacobs, Clif Kussmaul, and Mihaela Sabin, Free and open source software in computing education, Proceedings of the 2011 Conference on Information Technology Education (New York, NY, USA), SIGITE ’11, ACM, 2011, pp. 41–42.
Rights
Copyright © 2011, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc.
Comments
© 2011, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here for your personal use. Not for redistribution. The definitive Version of Record was published in Proceedings of the 2011 conference on Information technology education, https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2047594.2047606.