{"id":4950,"date":"2012-05-06T17:00:45","date_gmt":"2012-05-07T00:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522may12\/?p=4950"},"modified":"2012-05-07T06:35:18","modified_gmt":"2012-05-07T13:35:18","slug":"open-source-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522may12\/2012\/05\/06\/open-source-software\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Source"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few years ago<strong> Open Source <\/strong>was a real buzz &#8211; the future of software well beyond education. While the movement is still very active, the breakthrough promise hasn&#8217;t been realized. \u00a0Yet. \u00a0There are many who believe that the critical mass of openness &#8211; including new dimensions such as Open Data, Open Licenses, Open Innovation, Open Educational Resources, etc, is just around the corner.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Opportunity Statement<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong>Learning technologies ventures based on an <strong>Open Source<\/strong> model are compelling in thought but challenging in practice. \u00a0Analogous to social media applications, they depend significantly on cultivating a community committed to the value proposition. \u00a0 This is a not an unreasonable assumption in the education marketplace.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prediction Source(s): \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kqed.org\/mindshift\/2012\/01\/12-education-tech-trends-to-watch-in-2012\/\">KQED &#8211; Open Source<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few years ago Open Source was a real buzz &#8211; the future of software well beyond education. While the movement is still very active, the breakthrough promise hasn&#8217;t been realized. \u00a0Yet. \u00a0There are many who believe that the critical mass of openness &#8211; including new dimensions such as Open Data, Open Licenses, Open Innovation, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[325967],"tags":[328769,51],"class_list":["post-4950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emerging-markets-poll","tag-emerging-markets-poll-2","tag-open-source"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522may12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522may12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522may12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522may12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522may12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4950"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522may12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4955,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522may12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4950\/revisions\/4955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522may12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522may12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522may12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}