Re: Re: [seul-edu] Another threat

[Karl Pollingue <kpolling@bellsouth.net>]

Let's carry this to it's logical end -
Whoever is able, and probably consulting with the person/department at the state level in  charge of writing the standards used to define a "certification" - develop the required course(s) and test(s) for, say, OpenOffice, and give the whole package to OpenOffice.org. 
Many people associate a certification obtained from the company/organization that produces the product as having more "value" anyway.

Karl
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From: "Douglas S. Blank" <dblank@brynmawr.edu>
Date: 2002/05/14 Tue AM 10:44:50 EDT
To: seul-edu@seul.org,  schoolforge-discuss@schoolforge.net
Subject: Re: [seul-edu] Another threat

Matt Drew wrote:

[snip]

> Does anyone know if there is an OpenOffice or StarOffice certification?

Certificates of competence of open source products would be a good, 
first step. The design and development of materials, and even the 
process for giving the exam could even be performed in an "open source" 
manner, too.

For example, using some of our educational testing software, we could 
create exams and study materials on particular products. These could be 
freely available for practice. We could also make available the 
procedure for taking the exams, so that any school could freely give the 
exams, and certify their teachers.

In the long run, we may want to also address the problem of certifying 
knowlegde of particular products, rather than testing for more general 
concepts. But that's a harder problem...

-Doug

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