Real Life Stories On Using Stellarium: “There Is Nothing Wrong with Treating Yourself a Little” Karine Aeschlimann, College Montmorency, November 2015 Karine Aeschlimann from College Montmorency reminds us that fun can be an important ingredient for both the teacher and the student. We have prepared the following collection of publications in hopes that you will be inspired to download and try some of them out, as they will surely increase your productivity and enrich your teaching experience. Other more formal projects arose with the financial backing from substantial university endowments or software foundations.Ī number of publications on Profweb that were submitted by members of the college network share the advice and experiences of practitioners using free and open source software at their colleges. In some cases the software began with a small contingent of programmers hacking late into the night for fun, but with a purpose in mind. It should not come as too much of a surprise that the FOSS movement resonates within academic circles, since many of the high-profile FOSS projects were initiated within colleges and universities. With continued pressure for colleges to find new ways to respect their budget parameters and increased privacy concerns related to what information our software is collecting and communicating to the multinational corporations that create most of our software, it is important that the free and open source movement continue to thrive so that we have alternative means for us to use our technology. We encourage you to register and join us at the Cégep de Lévis-Lauzon!įree and open source software (FOSS) provides an interesting alternative to commercially-available products.

Profweb will be on hand at the conference and will be developping the conference summaries. Editor's Note: In anticipation of ADTE's conference that will be taking place on March 15th, 2017, Profweb will be publishing a number of articles on Free and Open Source Software and Open Educational Resources.

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