Amee Godwin's contribution to the OSS and OER in Education Series. In this post, she writes about OER as an active collaborative process aimed at enhancing teaching and learning.

Andy Lane's contribution to the OSS and OER in Education Series. In this post, he describes Open Learning and Open Educational Resources activities and projects at The UK Open University. He asks some critical questions about what it means to talk about Open Teaching (whether using OERs or not) and how might that teaching be organized so that it is supportive of informal and/or formal learning.

Pat Masson will be writing from personal experience about the barriers to institutional adoption of open source software.

Pat Masson will be writing from personal experience about the barriers to institutional adoption of open source software.

Summary of Pat Mason's posting - Barriers to the Adoption of Open Source: Personal and Professional Observations

Christine Geith's contribution to the OSS and OER in Education Series. In this post, she writes about how OER may be shaping the future of a new type of university.

Cole Camplese's contribution to the OSS and OER in Education Series. In this post, he looks at how the Web is finally starting to fulfill its promise as a platform to support and extend conversations.

This collection begins with an overview of collaborative learning and OERs and is followed by modules taking a deeper dive in the specific areas around the topic.

Craig Perue's contribution to the "OSS and OER in Education Series." In this post, he shares his experiences while leading eLearning@UWI’s investments in open-source software to make eLearning a self-sustaining, across all of the campuses of the 15-country University of the West Indies.

David Wiley's contribution to the OSS and OER in Education Series. In this post, he discusses the role of open content in open education.

Derek Keats' contribution to the OSS and OER in Education Series. In this post, he writes about about how the products and processes of Digital Freedom, such as personal learning environments, recognition of learning achieved, and collaborative cross-institutional virtual classrooms, have the potential to create new opportunities for education.

Dick Moore's contribution to the OSS and OER in Education Series. In this post, he share his experiences during the past 5 years at learndirect, during which time they have strategically adopted a range of open source tools and platforms that have helped transform Service and reduce operational costs. His posting will look at some of those tools, decisions and their service impact.

Dr. Farideh Mashayekh contribution to the "OSS and OER in Education Series." In this post, she shares share some of her thoughts about the importance and nature of adult learning in a knowledge society, opening ample opportunities for the rest of us to connect these topics with open source software and open educational resources.

Gary Schwartz's contribution to the OSS and OER in Education Series. In this post, he writes from the perspective of an open source project manager.

Gavin Baker's contribution to the OSS and OER in Education Series. In this post, he writes about linkages between open access journal literature and open educational resources, arguing that free education needs free scholarship.

This project is being launched by an international group of leading authors on "The Impact of Open Source Software on Education." This resource includes a collection of postings by an international group of leading authors on "The Impact of Open Source Software on Education". The author contributions and comments serve as a series of case studies about how institutions around the world have integrated open source educational software into their practice to make educational resources available to the public. The postings were originally contributed to Terra Incognita, a blog devoted to exploring new ground in higher education sponsored by Penn State's World Campus.

A summary of the interview with Richard Wyles for The Impact of Open Source Software Series.

Introduction to Richard Wyles' contribution to the "OSS and OER in Education Series." In this post, he writes about networking Moodles across multiple institutions, the Mahara ePortfolio and related projects and will be providing some examples of how open source is delivering on the promise of innovation for education.

Richard Wyles will be writing about networking Moodles across multiple institutions, the Mahara ePortfolio and related projects and will be providing some examples of how open source is delivering on the promise of innovation for education.