During our recent online conference we managed to enlist the expertise of Derrin Kent who is a teacher/trainer/evangetist/geek for Free and Open Source software. Derrin is based in the West Midlands and is a lead consultant for The Development Manager Ltd. http://tdm.info/ . With a marked favouritism towards Open Source Software and Open Data Standards/Formats, Derrin supports organisations to improve their performance in their blended learning delivery ...and also other management processes: (employer engagement, project management, website management, internal/external communications, IT infrastructure, etc.) . Basically Derrin promotes the same active learning ethos as we do, coupled with the wider choice of free tools FE and HE requires. Derrin created a series of short videocasts for practitioners and managers.
The video below is the first of 4 entitled Software for Trainers
The video below is the first of 4 entitled Software for Managers
Both parts (trainers and managers ) can be viewed online here : http://www.esnips.com/web/kbracesBusinessFiles
Theresa Welch our WBL advisor is busy collating all of the links and presentations Derrin gave us to pass on. She has begun to add them to our new wiki at URL:
Don't forget our own JISC Service OSS Watch has a wealth of experience and resources to help those implementing and using OS software. http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk/resources/
Download this new Whitepaper : An Analysis of the Key Market Segments of Application Security for Open Source Software Find out how to establish an application security approach for open source software that combines policy, process and technology in this whitepaper.
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Your strategy should include:
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· Learning where these components are being used
· Finding out if your open source software has known vulnerabilities
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Don't forget that Skype is trialling ful screen video conferencing:
https://exch.wlv.ac.uk/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://news.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/hi/technology/newsid_7461000/7461018.stm
My weblinks also point towards other free webbased software : http://del.icio.us/deliboy/web2.0 or http://del.icio.us/deliboy/open-source
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