{"id":1520,"date":"2016-10-20T23:29:51","date_gmt":"2016-10-20T23:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/?p=1520"},"modified":"2017-07-22T16:55:45","modified_gmt":"2017-07-22T16:55:45","slug":"nwelearn-limitless-education-is-open-source-an-option","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/nwelearn-limitless-education-is-open-source-an-option\/","title":{"rendered":"NWeLearn: Limitless Education: Is Open Source an Option?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 191px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright zemanta-img\"><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Oregon_State_University_clock_tower.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-img-inserted zemanta-img-configured\" title=\"Bell tower at Oregon State University.\" src=\"\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/e\/e6\/Oregon_State_University_clock_tower.jpg\/670px-Oregon_State_University_clock_tower.jpg\" alt=\"Bell tower at Oregon State University.\" width=\"181\" height=\"241\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bell tower at Oregon State University. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><b>Limitless Education: Is Open Source an Option? <\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tamara Mitchell, Assistant Director Career Success Center at Oregon State University \/ Arkansas State University Mountain Home \/ Western Oregon University<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Brian Daigle, Center for Academic Innovation at Western Oregon University<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alexis Terell, Undergraduate Pathway Associate Program Manager at Oregon State University<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Craig Geffre, Division of International Programs at Oregon State University<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jennifer Kepka, Linn-Benton Community College<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Open Source tools are reducing barriers and encouraging innovation among higher education faculty, staff, and administrators. Engage with a panel of higher education professionals to learn about the latest trends in OS, discover useful software and content available for immediate use in classrooms and campuses, and participate in a discussion that will record your voice as part of the larger OS community online.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Some of the tools looked at:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The commercial software Slido.com? I didn\u2019t get why this is \u201copen source.\u201d <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">HTML 5 Editor: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/h5p.org\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/h5p.org\/<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">GIMP: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gimp.org\/downloads\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/www.gimp.org\/downloads\/<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Inkscape: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/inkscape.org\/en\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/inkscape.org\/en\/<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Open Broadcaster: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/obsproject.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/obsproject.com\/<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Blender: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blender.org\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/www.blender.org\/<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> 3d animation and editing<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Scribus: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribus.net\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/www.scribus.net\/<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Open source publishing<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Open Office: <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.openoffice.org\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">http:\/\/www.openoffice.org\/<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Libre Office: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.libreoffice.org\/\">https:\/\/www.libreoffice.org\/<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pencil:\u00a0http:\/\/pencil.evolus.vn\/ Layout software<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I think we should have started with a definition of Open Source. They seemed to deride the idea of something being \u201cphilosophically open.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Limitless Education: Is Open Source an Option? Tamara Mitchell, Assistant Director Career Success Center at Oregon State University \/ Arkansas State University Mountain Home \/ Western Oregon University Brian Daigle, Center for Academic Innovation at Western Oregon University Alexis Terell, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/nwelearn-limitless-education-is-open-source-an-option\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[1200,1115,1213,1214,1212],"class_list":["post-1520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oer","tag-nwelearn","tag-gimp","tag-inkscape","tag-open-source","tag-open-source-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}