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Grant Sewell wrote:
You have to remember that Linux and FLOSS scares the hell out of the educational establishment. Currently people earn a lot of money re-inventing the wheel - almost every teacher/tutor makes their own course and sells material etc. Now consider the floss approach - all material free online, a good 75% of the market can easily self train at home and self test. You then just need to pay for 'qualifications' - ie exams etc.On Sun, 25 Apr 2010 19:11:25 +0100 John Hansen wrote:On 25/04/2010 19:04, james kilty wrote:On Sat, 2010-04-24 at 12:47 +0100, Paul Sutton wrote:It would be nice to have an indication on demand for this sort of thing, as it seems training or lack there of is a big barrier to the take up of Linux of any flavour.I contacted my local adult ed centre a couple of years ago about running a course. They said they'd have to contact the IT department and I heard no more. I presume the IT department would not like to have their Windows machines contaminated with a Linux. So, an educational opportunity was disallowed by the IT professionals rather than on educational merit. There is a human rights issue here if I wanted to pursue it. JamesJames, I suppose the IT guys were not themselves confident in the use of Linux so were not prepared to run a Linux course. John WYes, I'd *like* to think that as well. Many years ago I contacted my then-local Adult Ed people about *ME* running a Linux course and I got exactly the same treatment as James. Then over the course of 5 years whilst under the employ of a local FE College there were many attempts - frequently met with enthusiasm but then everything got swept under the carpet.
Old habits die hardI still find it amusing that school teachers complain about the amount of work they have to do preparing lessons. Why dont they ( and bloody ofsted) pool their work?
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