SchoolForge Coalition
The SchoolForge website is the result of combined efforts amongst many different areas of expertise, from the philosophers and teachers to programmers and end user support. If you are working on a project or would like to contribute to the discussion, please visit the discuss-list, review the procedures and apply to become a member of the SchoolForge Coalition.
Organization | Description | |
|---|---|---|
| Asian Academy of Business and Computers | http://lamundofloss.blogspot.com/ | The Asian Academy of Business and Computers is a technical college that aims to empower students coming from class c,d and e families who are considered being on the IT challenged, being Then disempowered, as such, the target of AABC as an academic institution is providing alternative learning methodologies and technologies among them Free Libre and Open Source Technologies (FLOSS TECH). We are actively campaigning for FOSS migration whether major or Minor. we also openly advocate the Use of Open Office as an alternative to Cut off the Shelf (COTS) office productivity suite. Most of our students belong to the CDE classes and majority of our students are ranging from partial to full scholars.Although new and still struggling, we aim to be ultimately one of the leaders in IT education focusing on FOSS in the Philippines. |
| Asymptopia Software | Software@theLimit | http://www.asymptopia.org | Asymptopia Software produces the following opensource education software: TuxMathScrabble, TuxWordSmith, Asymptopia Math Crossword Builder, Multiplication Station, Research Master, Vocabulary Builder, LaTeX Flashcard System, and more. |
| Debian Jr. | http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-jr | |
| DIDASCA | http://www.didasca.it/ | DIDASCA is a non profit cultural association. DIDASCA is the hub of nearly 500 'DIDASCA e-Learning CENTERS' focusing their activities on the ECDL - European Computer Driving Licence certification. Throught 4 different Cyber Schools, DIDASCA is trying to establish 'LifeLong Learning Partnership' with the Italian formal education system. DIDASCA is actively engaged in promoting the use of FLOSS in education throught the FLOSSIE channel located in the above mentioned websides. www.didascakids.it |
| Learning Patterns for the design and deployment of games for mathematical learning | http://lp.noe-kaleidoscope.org/ | |
| LibLime | http://liblime.com | LibLime's mission is to make open-source software accessible to all types of libraries, including school libraries. To that end, LibLime develops and promotes affordable and customizable open-source library solutions, such as Koha and Evergreen ILS. LibLime also provides a full range of services on these applications including: migration assistance, staff training, and software maintenance, support, and development. Use of open source not only lowers the per-library cost of running software, it also empowers libraries with a higher level of control over customization and the overall direction of software development. |
| Shiksha India | www.shikshaindia.org | Shiksha India is a non-profit initiative by Confederation of Indian Industry (www.cii.in) managed by a registered trust. Shiskha India is working towards the cause of enabling and empowering schools and teachers with various open source tools and softwares to enhance and improve their teaching-learning process. Shiksha has a network of over 2000 schools spread across India and conducts regular workshops to train the teachers in the use of various open source tools for their pedagogy and/or productivity based needs. Shiskha has trained over 1000 school teachers in the past six months on various open source tools and helped them harness technology appropriately. Shiskha India has also developed a free sharing portal for teachers and students, www.eshikshaindia.in |
| Sugar Labs | sugarlabs.org | Sugar Labs develops the Sugar Learning Environment which is most visibly used by the One Laptop Per Child project. |
| SWENG, Aristotle University | http://sweng.csd.auth.gr/wb/pages/people/sulayman-sowe.php | AUTH (http://www.auth.gr) is the largest higher educational institution in Greece with over 2000 permanent staff and 95000 students. In 2006 edition of the Journal of Systems and Software (Elsevier), AUTH is ranked 9th worldwide among the top institutions (both academy and industry) in the field of Systems and Software Engineering. The Software Engineering Group (SWENG) is a research group of the Programming Languages and Software Engineering (PlaSE) lab, which belongs to the department of informatics (one of the 37 departments or schools). The SWENG group deals with research, development and teaching of software engineering in general, and, in particular, all aspects related to software quality, cost, reliability, software development process of both Closed-source and Free/Open Source Software, and eXtreme Programming and Agile methods. |
| Vision Init | http://visioninit.com |
