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This week the Geneva government announced 9000 Ubuntu installations on its school computers. Promising times for Ubuntu ? Maemst Blog

School districts in the US and Canada find Linux and open source offers better support, cheaper setup costs, and improved educational value Windows may boast the lion's share of the desktop education market, but the economic and technical benefits of open source software has seen many schools and education institutions implement various flavours of Linux across their desktops and server back-ends. Computerworld - School districts serve up lessons in Linux

Mandriva and Novatice Technologies present Edutice, The ready to use solution dedicated to educationand multimedia spaces Edutice enables work spaces to be automatically deployed on schoolroom, archive centre or library computers. The Edutice solution has been put together to adress the specific demand of schools and universities: to facilitate the management of their IT services and their digital welcome structures. more here Mandriva and Novatice Technologies present Edutice,The ready to use solution dedicated to education and multimedia spaces | Mandriva linux

I said there might be, tried my best but there might be some left, like formerly FreeLoader Linux is now eLearnix, also had links to articles on blogs that I thought were interesting

Hi Dos_Box, I just started the thread because i had a lot of links in my bookmarks about education and i thought it a good idea to post em so everybody could benefit and after that whenever i read an article related to education i put it up in the same thread, I started this in a linux forum and was asked to submit here!!by a member , there might be some repetitions and/or dead links , feel free to trim ,del, modify them

eLearnix: (formerly FreeLoader Linux), this has a host of Linux tutorials to get you started on basics of Linux, its about 320 megs, My favorite for learning Linux.

Physics-Live CD is a Slax-based live CD containing essential software for mathematics, physics, and chemistry, for computations, and for developing simulation programs. Physics-Live CD

linuxeducd Linux-EduCD is a distribution developed by Poland's SIMP Studium Techniki, with focus on education, graphics, office and multimedia software and designed for deployment in Polish schools. The newly released version 0.9 is the project's first build based on PCLinuxOS (previously it was based on Ubuntu). his version includes new graphical configuration tools, an option to create a custom live CD/DVD or an image for USB storage devices, improved support for WiFi cards and HP printers, and a range of educational software. The distribution is built on top of a Linux kernel 2.6.22.15, while the desktop is KDE 3.5.8. Also included are OpenOffice.org 2.3.1, PVM, Octave 3, IBM OpenDX 4.4, Firefox 2.0.12, Opera 9.25, WordPress 2.3.3 and VirtualBox 1.5.2. Linux-EduCD ftp://ftp.icm.edu.pl/pub/Linux/dist/linux-educd/educd_09dvd.iso

The role of Linux and computers in schools The role of Linux and computers in schools

Interactive mathematics on the internet Interactive mathematics

Electronic Information for Libraries What is eIFL.net? eIFL.net is a not for profit organisation that supports and advocates for the wide availability of electronic resources by library users in transitional and developing countries. Its core activities are negotiating affordable subscriptions on a multi-country consortial basis, supporting national library consortia and maintaining a global knowledge sharing and capacity building network in related areas, such as open access publishing, intellectual property rights, open source software for libraries and the creation of institutional repositories of local content. EIFL: About EIFL: Home

Thousands of Polish high school students now have a chance to learn about GNU/Linux and the benefits of using free software as Polish FLOSS foundation together with school headmasters, supported by local authorities organize a series of lectures on free software in education. PolishLinux.org has a report summary of the first 3 months of the campaign. polishlinux.org Free software in Polish schools

researching a subject is a demanding task which needs a lot of time and study .this website will ease your ways Find Articles at BNET.com | News Articles, Magazine Back Issues & Reference Articles on All Topics also you can always look up google scholar

What is SAGE Math? It's an open source effort to replace expensive commercial closed-source mathematics software with open source alternatives. William Stein, the Mathematics Professor at the University of Washington who started the SAGE Math project says: "SAGE is a project at University of Washington whose goal is to create an optimal free open source software environment for research and experimentation in algebra, geometry, number theory, cryptography, and related areas. I started SAGE in 2005 by combining together the very best of existing free software (e.g., Singular, PARI, GAP, Macaulay2, Maxima, gfan, etc), creating interfaces to non-free software (e.g., MAGMA, Maple, Mathematica), and beginning to fill in the gaps with new code. Now dozens of developers have joined me in working on filling these gaps and making SAGE a polished and high quality piece of free software." SAGE: Open Source Mathematics Software https://www.sagenb.org/ SAGE: Open Source Mathematics Software

For students , it may be a busy time for studying at the end of January. I was interesting in trying out some flash-cards for memorizing question and answer format material, but without using lots of small paper cards. It turns out there’s a great flash-card application in the Ubuntu repositories. Mnemosyne does a lot more than traditional paper cards can. It decides which questions to show when using a zero to five grading system. How well you grade your answer determines if the question will be asked relentlessly or rarely. Studying with Flash-Cards in Ubuntu | Tombuntu

Today sees the launch of the Cape Town Open Education Declaration which aims to make learning and teaching materials freely available online, to improve the quality of education in schools in South Africa and the rest of the world, leveraging the potential for open collaboration on the Web. The declaration resulted from a meeting organised by the the Shuttleworth Foundation and the Open Society Institute in Cape Town last September and it already has some high-profile international signatories, including Ubuntu’s Mark Shuttleworth, Jimmy Wales of Wikipedia, Lawrence Lessig of Creative Commons and musician Peter Gabriel. Although named after Cape Town, this declaration is part of a global initiative to encourage governments and publishers worldwide to make all of their publicly funded materials freely available online. That the declaration has already been translated into 15 languages so far is testament to its global reach. Tectonic Shuttleworth leads global open education drive

Puppy Linux for Education PuppyLinux: Puppy Linux for Education K12 Linux Terminal Server Project. Main Page - K12LTSP Wiki

Tux4Kids Non Profit Education Software Tux4Kids - Non-Profit Educational Software 10 Websites offering free Linux Courses Online 10 Sites Offering Free Linux Courses Online -- Education-Portal.com Very very good.

Do read this article freshmeat.net: Editorials - Linux in Education very informative about Education and Linux.

Administrative software What about the systems that students, teachers, and staff actually work with directly? These systems have mostly been Macintosh and more recently Microsoft Windows machines. How does Linux fare in that niche? Unfortunately, not too well at the moment. There are a number of projects working on addressing deficiencies in application software for Linux, but few of them have software currently ready for wide-spread deployment. However, work is progressing rapidly on many of these programs and you can expect to see useful Linux software for schools shortly. On the administrative side, we've heard teachers say that if there isn't a good Linux gradebook program, Linux will never get onto teachers' desks. Period. Luckily, some of these teachers are also Linux fans and are working on programs that have the features they want rather than those that software companies think will sell. There's K12Admin, an account administration program written and currently in use at the Coast Mountain School District in British Columbia, Grader, a GNOME gradebook program being written by several teachers and students, KTeacher, a KDE gradebook being written by another teacher, and Roster, an account administration program written and used at Laney College. In addition, OpenClassroom, the Authenticated User Community (AUC), LearnLoop, and Zschool all intend to provide Web-based educational "environments" with integrated administrative and collaborative capabilities. Work is also beginning on a general testing and quizzing application that can be run by itself or integrated with some or all of the environments mentioned above. K12Admin : K12Admin KTeacher : http://www.linuxlots.com/~dwculp/ Roster : Jim Lynch's Roster Project Home Page OpenClassroom : Welcome to openclassroom Homepage: Find it all on openclassroom.org LearnLoop : LearnLoop Zschool : Redomino - Open Solutions - E-learning

Linux as a server for schools As a file server for schools, Linux is ready now. It can act as a native Appletalk, SMB, NFS, or NetWare server. Files stored on a Linux system can be simultaneously available for users of all four of those networking systems (and more, although those are by far the most common in schools). Linux also enjoys an advantage in price here over the alternatives, since its legendary efficiency and low cost mean that computers considered obsolescent under other operating systems can be put back into service as functional Linux servers. When it comes to providing Internet services, Linux again easily beats the more commonly used scholastic systems. Setting up Linux systems to provide email accounts, an NNTP news server, a Web server, file and print services, and firewalling, proxy, and IP masquerading is fairly easy, and certainly rewards the effort. Given that Linux is free, and can run well on older hardware, there is no reason why numerous severs couldn't be set up. For many high schools, creating these systems could be part of the learning experience itself. The benefits could be felt in many areas, including mailing lists for staff and student organizations, for instance.

The following link contains Catagories regarding Education. Education | Linux App Finder

Lormalinux : Linux for Education LormaLINUX is Lorma Colleges' very own Linux Distribution that has been optimized and customized to meet the needs of educational institutions and its students. It is a full-featured Operating System specifically created for ease of installation, ease of use and functionality. Lormalinux : Linux for Education

Music Education With Linux Sound Tools Whatever you play, make your music lessons and practice sessions more productive with these music learning tools. Music Education With Linux Sound Tools

Pierrick Le Brun announced the availability of ZenEdu Live Christmas Edition, a special edition of Zenwalk Linux: "Zenwalk community, on the occasion of this festive season, is pleased to offer you a Special Edition of ZenEdu Live. A live CD based on Zenwalk snapshot and focusing on educational and fun contents which can be used independently by educational institutions, families, students and children alike. Along with the legendary speed, lightness and full multimedia support you can expect from a Zenwalk derived production, key features include the famed educational suite GCompris, the universal OpenOffice.org suite and the indispensable over-the-network teaching and viewing tool iTALC, already pre-configured with teacher/student parameters." Here is the full announcement. Zenwalk Support • Index page