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Fagan, Bryan J.; Payne, Bryson R. – Proceedings of the Interdisciplinary STEM Teaching and Learning Conference, 2017
The US Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts over 8 million job openings in IT and computing, including 1 million cybersecurity postings, over the current five-year period. This paper presents lessons learned in preparing middle-school students in rural Georgia for future careers in computer science/ IT by teaching computer programming in the free,…
Descriptors: Programming Languages, Teaching Methods, Computer Science Education, Open Source Technology
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Edwards, Richard – Learning, Media and Technology, 2015
Openness has a long genealogy in education. Whether through the use of post, radio, television and digital technologies, extending learning opportunities to more and a wider range of people has been a significant aspect of educational history. Transcending barriers to learning has been promoted as the means of opening educational opportunities in…
Descriptors: Open Education, Educational Technology, Educational Opportunities, Open Source Technology
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Chang, Naicheng; Tsai, Yuchin; Hopkinson, Alan – Program: Electronic Library and Information Systems, 2010
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to evaluate issues of different scripts in the same record (in MARC21 and Chinese machine-readable cataloguing (CMARC)) and Chinese internal codes (i.e. double-byte character set) when implementing Koha. It also discusses successful efforts in promoting the adoption of Koha in Taiwan, particularly the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Coding, Information Systems, Library Automation