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A Professional Learning Community Approach for Teacher Development and OER creation - A toolkit/Establishing ICT infrastructure (view source)
Revision as of 09:53, 2 February 2018
, 09:53, 2 February 2018→Free and open technology architecture
''In the area of ICT, the ‘private’ often becomes ‘proprietary’ by which the owner of the ICT resource becomes the sole arbiter for its design and use, constraining and limiting the role of teachers, learners and the education system, through legal and technological constraints''. This affects ICT resource distribution and use, impoverishing the digital environment.
''In the area of ICT, the ‘private’ often becomes ‘proprietary’ by which the owner of the ICT resource becomes the sole arbiter for its design and use, constraining and limiting the role of teachers, learners and the education system, through legal and technological constraints''. This affects ICT resource distribution and use, impoverishing the digital environment.
==== Benefits from FOSS ====
The specific benefits of using FOSS platforms and applications in the PLC-OER program are listed below
The specific benefits of using FOSS platforms and applications in the PLC-OER program are listed below
# Since FOSS is '''freely shareable, it can be downloaded free of cost'''. It can be installed on all the computers in the ICT lab without restriction or needing to pay license fees to vendors. Teachers and students can take the software and install on their home computers, at no cost.
# Since FOSS is '''freely shareable, it can be downloaded free of cost'''. It can be installed on all the computers in the ICT lab without restriction or needing to pay license fees to vendors. Teachers and students can take the software and install on their home computers, at no cost.