<p>ATLANTA — Georgia education officials ordered investigations on Thursday at 191 schools across the state where they had found evidence of tampering on answer sheets for the state’s standardized achievement test. <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/12/education/12georgia.html?partner=rss&amp;emc=rss" target="_blank">&gt;&gt;Read More</a></p> 2010-02-28T22:25:10-06:00 33667 6 120350 false false true true 0 F. Alexandre 378560 2010-02-28T22:25:10-06:00 <p>&nbsp;</p> <div class="field-items"> <div class="odd field-item"><img src="http://opensource.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/image-half-size/images/education/EDUCATION_thekey3.png" style="float: right; margin: 3px; border: 1px solid black;" border="0" width="260" height="146" />You have an open source project. You discover something that it would be really awesome to have added to your project, but you can't justify bumping it up the priority queue. It clearly has a bit of core CS theory in it, a bit of old-skool hacking, and the end product will add some real value to your project (and possibly the lives of thousands of people). How do you get a college student to take this on as an independent study project?&nbsp;<span class="read-more"><a href="http://opensource.com/education/10/2/open-source-independent-studies" target="_blank" title="Read the whole post"><strong>» Read more</strong></a></span></div> </div> <p>&nbsp;</p> 2010-02-28T22:18:32-06:00 33667 8 120347 true false true true 0 F. Alexandre 378560 2010-02-28T22:18:32-06:00 <p>&nbsp;</p> <div class="field-items"> <div class="odd field-item"><img src="http://opensource.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/image-half-size/images/education/EDUCATION_opencardcatalog.png" style="float: left; margin: 3px; border: 1px solid black;" border="0" width="260" height="146" /><span style="line-height: 16px;">It's the leading open source learning management system in the world. It provides 100s of 1000s (millions?) of students and teachers, learners and educators a means of collaborating, engaging content and organizing studies online. It's easy to tout the great things that Moodle has done for education in the dozen short years since it was created by Martin Dougiamas. It has certainly created and standardized the base-level of learning management systems available to schools throughout the world.&nbsp;<span class="read-more"><a href="http://opensource.com/education/10/2/moodle-open-source-closed-doors" target="_blank" title="Read the whole post"><strong>» Read more</strong></a></span></span></div> </div> <p>&nbsp;</p> 2010-02-28T22:16:46-06:00 33667 7 120346 true false true true 0 F. Alexandre 378560 2010-02-28T22:16:46-06:00 <p>On the&nbsp;<a href="http://teachingopensource.com/index.php/TeachingOpenSource_Mailing_List">teaching open source mailing list</a>, the<a href="http://teachingopensource.org/pipermail/tos/2010-February/000870.html">following question</a>&nbsp;was recently posted:&nbsp;<span class="read-more"><a href="http://opensource.com/education/10/2/introducing-computing-hands-secondary-education" target="_blank" title="Read the whole post"><strong>» Read more</strong></a></span></p> 2010-02-28T22:12:13-06:00 33667 8 120345 true false true true 0 F. Alexandre 378560 2010-02-28T22:12:13-06:00 <p>Like him or not, you've got to be impressed by the quality of discourse that Jon Stewart adds to the national dialogue.&nbsp; Maybe&nbsp;<a href="http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-january-25-2010/bill-gates">this conversation</a>&nbsp;with Bill Gates about the U.S. education system could have taken place on Charlie Rose -- but how many people would have seen it?&nbsp;<span class="read-more"><a href="http://opensource.com/education/10/1/bill-gates-talks-free-education" title="Read the whole post"><strong>» Read more</strong></a></span></p> 2010-02-28T22:10:42-06:00 33667 8 120344 true false true true 0 F. Alexandre 378560 2010-02-28T22:10:42-06:00