Re: Grant Application: Promotion of FOSS in undergraduate Computer Science, Information Technology and Software Engineering degrees at the University of Newcastle
Russell Coker <[email protected]>
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On Tue, 4 Apr 2017 07:20:10 AM Mark Wallis wrote: > > On 4 Apr 2017, at 12:35 am, Russell Coker <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I think it's good to have more Linux inclusion in university courses. > > But I am concerned about paying for material of a limited scope. > > From that perspective, it would seem a sensible approach to partner with > one of the larger open Universities and generate brand new course content > to teach about FOSS. I believe there are a number of courses that are True, but AFAIK they haven't applied. > > But you could release new slides that are added to existing lecture > > material, it wouldn't make a complete presentation, but it would be a > > good start for someone who wanted to develop something similar. If you > > released the new slides that showed how to do things with Linux while > > keeping the old slides showing how to do things with Windows secret that > > would achieve the aims of Linux Australia. > > My only concern with this approach is the disruption to the flow of the > course content. If students have to go “seek out” the alternate content > then that could affect adoption rates, where if the alternate content is No, you would provide a single source for the content that students use, as well as a second source for the open parts of it that others can use. > > In the past I released some diagrams for demonstrating concepts that I > > was lecturing about under a free license. Some people included those > > diagrams in their own lectures so it seemed to do some good. > > We will be more than happy to search out and include those diagrams to > reduce our workload :-) https://etbe.coker.com.au/2007/04/11/presentations-about-se-linux/ Here are some of my diagrams if you are planning to lecture about SE Linux. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/ _______________________________________________ linux-aus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linux.org.au/mailman/listinfo/linux-aus