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No-Cost Classroom Software The World of Open-Source Education Presented by: Dr. Will Barratt Brian Zuel What is Open Source Free Cost $$$ Freedom from “Big Brother” Not to be confused with Freeware No virus No trials You probably already use Open Source Popular Open Source software Android Operating System Firefox Web Browser WordPress Audacity GIMP LibreOffice/Open Office Cost comparison 30 Students/Class Adobe Photoshop - $200 per license SPSS - $99 per year Final Cut Pro (Video Editor) - $299 Total Cost - $17,940.00 Open Source Alternatives GIMP - $0 PSPP - $0 LiVES - $0 Total Cost - $0 What will we show you today? jClic Open-School Freedeansoffice Exo OrangeHRM PSPP jClic jClic is formed by a set of computer applications that are used for carrying out different types of educational activities: puzzles, associations, text exercises, crosswords... The activities are not usually used alone, but packed in projects. A project is formed by a set of activities and one or more sequences, which indicate the order in which they have to be shown. The predecessor of jClic is Clic, an application that has been used by educators of different countries since 1992 as a tool for the creation of didactic activities for their students. Open-School Open-School is an open source comprehensive web-based School Management Software. It is designed for better interaction between students, teachers,parents & management. For a demo http://tryopenschool.com/index.php?r=user/login Moodle The largest Learning Management System that is completely free and open source. Moodle is extremely customizable and is supported by millions of users. If you find a problem it is usually a good bet that someone else has posted the fix for that problem on the web. FreeDeansOffice http://sourceforge.net/projects/freedeansoffice/ Add-on for Moodle - Manage subscriptions to the Moodle course, contract with students, educational services, the trajectory of learning, academic groups, individual and group training, student record-books, learning processes, milestones, current and final grades, etc. Susi (Addon for FreeDeansOffice) http://sourceforge.net/projects/susi/?source=direct ory School add-on for Free Dean's Office - This project based on Free Dean's Office and adapts it for schools. eXo http://sourceforge.net/projects/exo/?source=direct ory-featured The open source enterprise social platform. Social learning is proving to be essential with the millennial generation and next generation after. Orange HRM OrangeHRM – Human Resource management http://sourceforge.net/projects/orangehr m/?source=directory PSPP http://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/ Open source statistical software Final Facts Open Source is much more secure than closed source!!! Millions of people reviewing the code for any problems and immediately fixing the problems. No waiting on a specific “patch day” Banks, Governments, Large Corporations all run open source for the most