Sentences with phrase «of open source content»

«Increasingly, you're going to see open education projects become the leading publication outlet for educational material, because they're so flexible, they're so easy to maintain, and authors can have such a big impact by publishing their material with open access,» says Richard Baraniuk, founder of the open source content library Connexions.
They were working together to fix final problems in the next version of the open source content management system Joomla, and they used five key (and either cheap or free) technologies to work together:

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With its new features, Medium's main target appears to be blog - hosting or content - management providers like WordPress, whose open - source software powers more than 20 % of the web, including sites like Fortune and TechCrunch (Fortune is partnering with Medium for a trial project, as is Money magazine, both of which are owned by Time Inc.).
Additionally, Toptal hopes to increase the representation of females on open - source sites such as GitHub by requiring program participants to make meaningful contributions to these sites and publish educational content about their experiences.
Examples of open - source software include web browsers like Firefox, operating systems like Linux and content management systems like WordPress.
Once the Web grew from a collection of static pages to an interactive platform, Matt Mullenweg knew users would need an open source content management system, so he created WordPress.
The open - source dream got a new boost in May, when Governor Arnold Schwartzenegger, responding to his state's budget crisis, asked content developers to submit their «open - source digital textbooks» to California Learning Resource Network (CLRN), a 10 - year - old project established by the Board of Education that has long hosted supplemental electronic resources for the state.
While the real power of open - source textbooks, Bridges and others say, is being able to tap into the knowledge of the nation's 3 million schoolteachers, a look at the recent crop of books suggests that's not an accurate reflection of how educational content is being created.
An open - source content management system then would search through upwards of a billion drug combinations to find those with the greatest potential to inhibit a given tumor, or a billion hypothetical compounds to identify candidates for new drug development.
Building websites by hand with all html / css pages was fine a couple years ago, but these days there are a ton of awesome Content Management System options An open source content management platform built using the Django fraContent Management System options An open source content management platform built using the Django fracontent management platform built using the Django framework.
Men are monsters, albeit ones with the potential for redemption, in this measured, mechanical portrait of Joseph, whose slow moral awakening comes via an unlikely relationship with thrift - store proprietor Hannah (Olivia Colman), whom Joseph — after attacking a gang of young bar patrons — ruthlessly berates during their opening meeting, condemning her (without any justification) for being a content middle - class idiot whose barren womb is a source of shame.
The most obvious feature of free open source (FOS) materials is the lack of cost for the materials themselves - most open - source content is free of cost in digital form.
Since I first started writing about open educational resources a few years ago, there has been a flood of new sources that educators can seek out for content.
Odeo was the promise of Open Source, combined with a new kind of «web app» that allowed anyone to contribute content to the public commons using just their voice.
The Keynote speeach by the Education Secretary was followed by a presentation from Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, who discussed how opensource and open - content technology is changing the way we access information, and how educators can help their students take advantage.
On the other end of the scale, there are free tools like Microsoft's Learning Content Development System (free if you have a Microsoft account), Google Course Builder, and open - source packages like h5p.
Open source content could bolster the education of not only students but also teachers, says Ronald Powell, administrator of the Desert / Mountain Special Education Local Plan Area, in San Bernardino County, California.
Open source content, or material freely contributed and given away, is best known to software engineers through operating systems such as Linux and to the nongeeky rest of us through the online encyclopedia Wikipedia.
According to some sources, there are more than one billion pieces of educational content available in the open - resources infrastructure.
Provides a set of software services and training that leverage open source and content creation platforms including Moodle LMS.
Alfresco is a leading open - source content management system preferred by Brightcookie for the management of your learning content repositories.
Using both open and axial coding (Strauss & Corbin, 1990), a content analysis was performed across data sources to identify categories concerning the modeling of NETS - T.
Because of the growing availability of open - source information online, high schools» traditional role as transmitters of content knowledge is becoming obsolete.
Students are guaranteed an engaging learning experience through the ability to build from any source or mode of content, including textbooks, Open Educational Resources (OER), and real - time media.
Additionally, VitalSource is supporting user - added EPUB content in its downloadable apps, providing access for assistive technologies to a wide range of Open Education Resources (OER) and other content sources.
The EPUB format is an open source standard that defines how the content and metadata of an eBook should be packaged and how eReading devices and software should render the format to the reader.
The OPL is dedicated to researching new models of content creation and developing innovative, open - source and cross-media publishing projects.
McGuire is the founder of the Pressbooks platform, an open source content management system and book formatter that outputs designed books in all major publishing formats: PDF (for print and digital distribution), EPUB and MOBI ebook formats, as well as a fully native Web version of each book.
Book Industry Study Group (BISG) The Readium open source collaboration should accelerate availability and improve consistency of EPUB 3 implementations, and dovetail with BISG work to develop and communicate guidelines for publishers around best practices for creation of EPUB 3 content.
The vast majority of the 15,000 soundtracks that are available are royalty free and open sourced content, the type of stuff that is available on Project Gutenberg, not very compelling.
The first is that Habitat supports Creative Commons licensing, allowing publishers to create open source content and educational materials; in line with that is Inkling's announcement that it will be creating fifty open source titles for schools in partnership with the 20 Million Minds Foundation, furthering the reach and viability of digital textbooks in environments that are more than ready to receive them.
The Bookseller conducted an interview with Flooved's founder, Hamish Brocklebank, who said, «We pivoted our business model back in December and dropped the publishers as we realised students no longer had to be so dependent on overpriced textbooks... Along the lines of the Open Access movement, we source our content directly from the world's best professors in maths and physics who share our vision that access to educational materials should be free.
CourseSmart looks not only at the price of textbooks, acknowledging that there is an inherent cost in the creation of the text by author experts over several years, but also is focused on making sure that the open source content is academically relevant and sustainable over a period of time.
One of the things we want to make sure of when institutions are looking at open source content is that the provided content is high quality and will produce the desired learning outcomes.
The company is offering millions of free open source books, hundreds of bestsellers, and recently released content.
A number of other similar solutions are available (with both commercial and open source options) or if your EPUB content will be limited to use of certain features it's not too hard to write your own browser script for handling content.
Another lesser known format is open - source and free EPUB that brings the best out of publication with reflowable content.
Open source software and content management systems make it easy to launch and run websites without a lot of technical skills.
The DAISY Pipeline is an open - source, cross-platform framework for the migration of digital content to various formats.
The enki platform uses a modified version of open source software (VuFind +) as its discovery layer and Adobe Content Server software to store metadata and handle digital rights management (DRM) functions.
It was born with the mission to establish a standard for ebook publishing, and after many useless, unsuccessful and expensive projects (EPub3, Readium, etc...), it's currently busy with the implementation of an open source License Content Protection standard named Readium LCP.
So it's an amalgam of commercial (adobe content server), open source, and new code for processing metadata and packaging content files.
While that's an option if you plan to live in the cheaper parts of the world like Asia, it's a poor source of long term income and also leaves your blog open to accepting all sorts of content that may not align well with your brand.
Boasting 3 million points of interest across 500,000 destinations worldwide, Triposo's unique algorithms crawl data from certain open content sources (Wikipedia, TouristEye, etc.) to provide the best travel recommendations, from popular attractions to hidden gems.
Just as exciting, we will also release all of the code, sound, and artwork under open source licenses: the MIT license for the code, and a Creative Commons license for all the other content that makes up SiSSYFiGHT.
Squarespace is a straightforward website building service, while WordPress is an open - source platform for all types of web content, meaning they fall in slightly different categories.
In open access publishing, materials are published under a Creative Commons or other non-restrictive licence: authors retain ownership of the copyright to their content, but allow anyone to download, reuse, reprint, modify, distribute or copy the content as long as the original author and source are credited and there is no commercial purpose to the reuse, and no permission is required from the author or the publisher to do so.
Openness in how the systems and algorithms operate, both in the form of open source licenses and open content.
Legal tech futurist heralds «open source concept of legal content» at Corporate Legal Operations Consortium's inaugural London conference
The device contains pre-installed open - source software and add - ons which include links to websites that offer hyperlinks to streaming content, which is made available without the consent of the copyright holders.
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