E-Learning-Inclusivo (Mashup)

 | Silviu Stahie |

The Linux community is not exactly happy with the comments

"Most of us carry a smartphone around in our pocket without really thinking twice about just how impressive it is. These tiny little devices can do so many things, and they can do them for a (relatively) low price ..."

"The global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) is an international measure of acute poverty covering over 100 developing countries. It complements traditional income-based poverty measures by capturing the severe deprivations that each person faces at the same time with respect to education, health and living standards."

Shuttleworth says Ubuntu will switch to systemd

 | Taylor Armerding |
CSO |

Open source is now a dominant force in IT, but experts warn that it can also make things risky and may not be for everyone

Docker is the latest technology to reduce the cost of making an application environment available to developers and other users.

"How has learning evolved over the course of human history and what might the future hold for us? Follow our time traveller on his journey through time and space ..."

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Take a look at the first day of school celebrations around the world!

Opensource.com spotlights Scott Wilson, the Service Manager for OSS Watch, VP Apache Software Foundation, and maintainer for HtmlCleaner.

Interview with Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona of Bitergia

Learn how Bitergia analyzes software development metrics, and what these metrics might tell us about four open source cloud projects.

McAfee turned its training around that both saved both time and produced more lucrative sales: ...an average of $500,000 per year in sales [attributed to] new training model.

Before Intel giant McAfee revamped its new-hire orientation, ...80 hours long [with] ... 40 hours of pre-work,, 5 days of on-site training, and ...post-...to be completed at home.

To fix its problem, McAfee turned to ....Massive Open Online Courses, or MOOCs...called “flipping the classroom” [where]...a majority of learning happens ...by giving students access to course materials and having them probe, discuss, and debate issues with fellow learners as well as the professor.

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Companies ...have to trust the learner ...incorporating more opportunities for peer reviews and peer-to-peer dialogues...

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...Can your company re-imagine the role of the learner? ...the learner takes on a role more expansive than ever before, acting as teacher, learner, and peer reviewer.

Companies ...have to trust the learner to do this,  by incorporating more opportunities for peer reviews and peer-to-peer dialogues into the course.

With that change, McAfee turned its training around in a way that both saved both time and produced more lucrative sales: its sales associates now attribute an average of $500,000 per year in sales to the skills they learned through the new training model. 

Three MOOC elements are particularly well-suited to corporate learning & development:  Semi-synchronicity  (cohorts ...[can] motivate each other as they go through the program),  course design (flipping the classroom), and credentials

In a recent Future Workplace survey, completed by 195 corporate learning and HR professionals, 70 percent of respondents said they saw opportunities to integrate MOOCs into their own company’s learning programs. Even further, this sample of respondents made six recommendations for how MOOC providers could adapt to needs of corporations:

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