[ox-en] ::fc-announce:: Forum: Learning from Free Software, Sydney June 2
- From: Chris Chesher <chris.chesher arts.usyd.edu.au>
- Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 10:48:43 +1000
••• LEARNING FROM FREE SOFTWARE •••
teaching the net generation
A forum on free software in secondary and tertiary education
hosted by the University of Sydney’s Arts Informatics program
•• EVENT DETAILS
6pm-8pm Thursday June 2, 2005
Rogers Room John Woolley Building
University of Sydney
RSVP by May 30 essential: 9351 2226
or patricia.ricketts arts.usyd.edu.au
•• Chair
Dr Chris Chesher
Director of Arts Informatics
•• Panel
Dr Elizabeth Gordon-Werner
NSW Department of Commerce
Roger Buck
Studio of Arts And Sciences
John Tonkin
Arts Informatics, University of Sydney
•••
‘Free’ and ‘open source’ software are increasingly viable in
educational contexts as alternatives and supplements to commercial
software. Beyond its price, free software is attractive for the open
and participatory models it offers for making and sharing knowledge.
However, there remain significant practical and institutional obstacles
to their widespread adoption.
This seminar is the first in a series on “Teaching the Net Generation”
organised by the Arts Informatics program at the University of Sydney.
This series aims to bring together educators from secondary and
tertiary institutions to discuss practical and policy issues around
using information and communication technologies in teaching and
administration. The panel will discuss examples of free software being
used in education, as well as the implications of creative commons
licences and systems for collaborative authorship such as wikipedia.
‘Free’ software is most famously successful in Internet technologies
such as the Apache web server, and the GNU/Linux operating system.
More recently, though, educators have taken up open source learning
management systems like Moodle or LAMS, as well as blogs, wikis and web
content management systems in teaching and administration.
The panelists will present brief talks that will be followed with an
open discussion of the role of free software in teaching network
literacy and fostering cultures of collaboration.
Free software needs to offer better user experience, more comprehensive
documentation and more effective models for supporting users. Therefore
open source and free software communities increasingly need involvement
of people beyond the traditional information technology sectors,
including educators and those in the humanities.
The ‘Learning from free software’ seminar is presented by the Arts
Informatics program, which co-ordinates the Bachelor of Arts
Informatics, an undergraduate degree based on a cross-Faculty
collaboration between the Faculty of Arts and the School of Information
Technologies in the Faculty of Science. Arts Informatics is also home
to a growing research program concentrating on the intersections
between information technologies and the humanities.
•••
Refreshments and light snacks will be served.
Entry is free, but RSVP is essential.
For further information, see the Arts Informatics website:
http://www.arts.usyd.edu.au/departs/informatics
Event info (including a link to a PDF brochure and map):
<http://www.arts.usyd.edu.au/departs/informatics/?
page=events&id=infosem2005>
•••
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Dr Chris Chesher Woolley Building S314
Director (02) 9036 6173
Arts Informatics Program mob 0404095480
University of Sydney
chris.chesher arts.usyd.edu.au
http://www.arts.usyd.edu.au/departs/informatics/
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