computoman

Schools spend a a lot of money on computer education management systems  such as the following: (values are subject to change at any time.) Blackboard has dominated the market including try to allegedly sue out of business their competitors.  If your a small school with less than a hundred students, a thousand dollars a per student seems a bit extreme to me unless you can afford it.  The login in can tell you a lot about an institution. Lee college gives you the chance to look at potential courses. Yet, when I see a credit card pictured and focused on, I wonder if the they are only looking for your money. Could be a turnoff for a potential student. Now let's look at an open source alternative. No money mentioned and you can again grab information without even signing up. The cost of the Moodle software alone is $0 per student, allowing institutions to be more competitive. It is at least something to look at if you are an education administrato...

Was watching The Today Show and they had a segment where Microsoft was going to help out some schools and their computer educational programs with a free gifts of MSWindows 8. With articles like http://www.zdnet.com/mit-professor-windows-8-is-a-Christmas-gift-for-someone-you-hate-7000008479/ makes me wonder what MSFT is really up to. After a year, the school systems will probably have to start paying for licensing (also known as the Microsoft tax). So the MSWindows 8 will put the school systems possibly even in a worse situation.  To add insult to injury, if the school system can not pay for software, they probably have not updated their equipment recently. So to run the so-called free MSWindows 8, the school system already stretched for money will have to spend a whole lot of money to upgrade their computer equipment just to install and run MSWindows 8.  So how is that a bargain? Enter open source....  In fact, one such free operating system that predates linux by abo...