[school-discuss] Re: New-and-different approach to OSS in Education

[Douglas Loss <drloss@suscom.net>]

Leon Brooks wrote:

> One aspect of OSS which I have not seen discussed here and think is a vitally 
> important difference the the access to source - actually the key attribute of 
> OSS and part of the name - and how that impacts schools and education.
> 
>     Have any of the schools on this list got their older children writing
>     and modifying software for each other and the younger children?
> 

Leon, do you know about Open Web School 
<http://www.openwebschool.de/index_en.html>?  It's listed in the 
SEUL/edu App Index under Courseware, and looks like a project designed 
to do much of what you're talking about.

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