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Open Source and the
Education Community:A Report, and Some Suggestions
James Stanger, Ph.D.Chief Certification Architect andVice President of Certification,
Certification PartnersCorporation
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Who are we?
An overview of CIW, and what we do
Why open source is important to us?
We focus on job skills (Job Task Analysis)
Our academic clients demand a task-based approach
Who do we work with?
High schools, community colleges, and universities
What's the problem?
Schools want to create employable candidates
But, Employability usually often involve open source in
a meaningful way
Some suggestions
Okay, so there's one open high school out there . . .
Let's try to get a bit practical, shall we?
Agenda
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Who are we? Certified Internet Web Professional
(www.ciwcertified.com)
A skills-based education program
In existence since 1998
We teach:
Web development
Web design Vendor-neutral
Based on job skills
We focus on open sourcetechnologies wheneverpossible
Over 175,000 examsdelivered
We also develop courseware titles
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Who are we? (Continued) Clients include
Corporations such as IBMOver a dozen Universities worldwide
Western Governors University (WGU)
University of the West of Scotland
New Hebei University (China)
Dozens of community colleges Pellissippi State Technical Community College
Mid-South Community Colleges
About 150-200 high schools
Battlefield High school (Virginia)
Niceville High (Florida)
We also have a significant self-study business
We work daily with these clients; no theory or works inprogress here
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Who are we? (continued) Due to our work with open source, we are often asked to
work with other standards bodies and organizations
States Career Clusters (www.careerclusters.org)
Integral7 (www.integral7.com)
On the advisory board of many community colleges
Linux Professional Institute (www.lpi.org)
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Who are we? (continued) We teach and deliver exams for the following:
Web design
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
JavaDatabase design
Server administration
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Why is opensourceimportanttous?
Terrific educational tool Can see what happens underneath the hood of vendor-
specific technologies
We creates innovators and troubleshooters
Open source is a compelling development model
We want to show students how they can contribute to thatmodel
We teach innovators to become knowledge workers
We don't put people on a vendor treadmill
Skills-based approach first
Applications second
We don't put people on a vendor treadmill
We also profile closed-source technology when themarket demands it
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Who do we workwith?
We have an audience of well over 1,000 educators
We regularly work with their many thousands ofstudents
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Who did wetalkto? Educators:
Teachers Professors
Trainers
Administrators:
Deans
Department chairs
Principals
Superintendents
Curriculum designers
State leaders: They enlist CIW to ensure that programsmeet industry standards for high schools, communitycolleges and universities
Survey: We conducted a survey of our customer base
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Talent and innovation: Our best student talent generallystill comes from public institutions
Yes, some major universities are major supporters
But the majority of today's students aren't taught in those institutions
Our communities: Where will we get new innovators ifwe don't attract them now?
Better software, better solutions
Future of software development
What'satstake?
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Whatdo instructors want? Not the same question as what they need!
Motivated students
More time
Funding for training and research
Better facilities
So, what do they want? Reliable input from industry
A way to demonstrate that their students are getting jobs their pay is increasingly tied to this fact
A repeatable, stable turnkey solution
Programs that have industry backing (Government Perkinsfunding)
Something that makes their life easier
What does open source give them, then?
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Isthisthesolution? Business?
Serious?
Turnkey?
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Survey data (continued) So, who responded?
Titles included: Instructor/teacher/professor,
department chair, curriculum leader, training manager
Large number of directors, deans and administrators
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Survey data (continued) The majority of respondents were developers and
programmers - Other listed specific languages
ManyWebdesign
educators,as well
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Survey data (continued) Notice the array of proprietary applications
Not trying topull aneither/orhere
But, noticehow mostof thesetechnologiescan be
open source
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Survey data (continued) From a comfort perspective, and from an industry
perspective,closedsourceapplicationsrule the
roost
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Survey data (continued)What applications o ouuseonapersonalorprofessional asis, outsideofclass?
Adobe OpenOffice at times.
U E Linux ubunto, apache triad
Firefox, ordpress,OpenOffice, ireshark, Linux,Apache Linux, Java, ++
reamweaver,Firefox,Office, XP Microsoft software applications andwebdesignsoftware.
none [lotsofthese!]none,I amnot familiarwith any
wehave a Linuxserverin additional toservers runningMicrosoft.Iplay aroundwithfreesoftwareforcreatingwebpages,blogs, videos,digitalscrapbooks - ifit'sfree,I'llplay
whenIhave time )
OpenOffice, GoogleEarth, Picassa OOo,Filezilla,Apache, Linux, Notepad++,phpMyAdmin,PHP, jEdit, Tortoise VN, YUI,Audacity, GiMP, Smoothwall,
PuTTY andmanymore...
Gimp,Audacity, Moodle, Xampp, Linux,OpenOffice, Utilities,mostly. Nomajor applications.
PHP, MySQL,Apache,Audacity Moodle ourse Management System,OtherFOSS Utilities
Idon't use anybut haveheard about OpenOffice.IfIhadmoreinformationon thesesources,Imight bewilling touse
them.
Almost everythingisopensource...
Not surewhat opensource applications are availa ble CrimsonEditor,FileZilla,Firefox,Unbuntu Linux and
xampp, ordpress, Joomla
Yes, Adobe Flex isopensource but noticesomeof the mistakenandnaveideasabout opensource
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Survey data (continued) The majority of other said We don't use open
source, and we never get asked for open source
(Traincanada.com)
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Survey data (continued) Corporate adoption is key
Instructorsdon'twant totake the
lead Advisory
Councils
Theseinstructors
aren'tbozos -they listen toindustry
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Survey data (continued) Open source is something for students but corporation
use standard industry software
Lack of personal experience
quality textbook resources are sometimes limited. Idon't have time to write my own "books" for all the
different open source and Not many publishers offertexts in it.
Our county doesnt have the software
The students reluctance to learn something that isn't'office.'
Many are not as user friendly unless you are aprogrammer and require more steps to use thanpurchased software.
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Survey data (continued) Greatest demand in the state is for .NET solutions. We
respond to industry demands rather than proselytizenon-commercial alternatives
Money - there are hidden costs and ASP.NET is free -prefer VB based code for teaching
lack of my training not always compatible with home computers
Don't know what is available
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Survey data (continued) If corporate adoption is key, consider this slide
Other was allNone
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Survey data (continued) How deep and sophisticated is academic support of open
source?
The question was, Please name any open sourceprojects you work with or contribute to
None, I'd like to someday
Do not work with them - just referrals for students to find freestuff
Edinburgh Linux User Group (EdLug). UKOpen SourceConsortium. Linux Professional Institute. Peter George
I am working on a project to look at open source coursedelivery options similar to blackboard
OpenOffice and PortableApps
Moodle, Joomla
Asterisk PBX system
ossim /ipcop /nessus / nmap /moodle /exe
Of 74 responses, 41 said none.
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Survey data (continued)
Answers included: Never gave it a thought and50/50
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Survey data (continued) briefly 15 min overview
1hr, includes pic of Rich. Stallman
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Survey data (continued) It is many development models with copyleft being the
far left.
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Some of ourrespondents Kern High School District: We offer 50+ different job
training programs
Western Governors University (WGU): Emphasis onOracle and industry-backed programs
Lawson State Community College: I currently do not
actually teach students how to use open sourceproducts
Howard Community College Low income students.Digital Divide. Show students transferrable skills onopen source and how to access.
Some schools are quite progressive, sure.
But for every one progressiveschool/program/instructor, there are at least 4 whoreally don't know, don't care about open source
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Problemsandsolutions
Some solutions
Don't emphasize the GPL andpatents to the exclusion ofdemonstrating how open sourcebusiness models work
Show how open source is a
compelling way to developsoftware
Community and projectleaders need to show highlightthe business use of theirsolutions
Include educators more inprojects
Open source leaders need toactively engage educators
Some problems
ACTE Conference: What goes onin Vegas stays in Vegas?
Meeting in Florida: I show somestudents open source tools afterclass
Comment from Scotland: I useopen source all the time forexample, trial versions of Adobe
Question asked on Drupal: Weneed a portal that allows us tocreate forums, share ideas, blog,
and share documents. Why aren'twe using Microsoft SharePoint?
Let's talk about some problems and solutions, shall we?
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Eric Meyer
A CSS god He gave a presentation on open source Web design
Very inspirational for a while, at least
In less than a 1/2-hour, though, attendees were back
to talking about how important it was for them to get
funding for Adobe CS3!
Anotherstory: CIW conference
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Solvingthe problem?
Create new schools? Redesign the schools?
Well . . .
Let's try to be practical
Can't we work with existing schools?
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Who's holdingus back?
Answers:
It's all Microsoft's fault. Hmm. Not really.
Sometimes, your best friends are your worst supporters
The independent nature of open source project leaders
The small nature of projects Balkanization
Overly idealistic thinkers and shakers who maybe pleasant to listen to, but who have not executed inexisting academic institutions on a large scale
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Who's holdingus back?(continued)
We have at least two communities at play, here:
The open source community and all of its projects
Academia, which has its own language, culture, andconferences
When was the last time you went to an academic conference? Why is that?
More dialogue even some dialog is necessary
And, let's focus on what can be accomplished on alarge scale, not in isolated instances
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I'm ready to take somenotes
Whatsolutionsdo you haveinmind?
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Thank You!
JamesStanger,[email protected]
(888) 303-8694
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