{"id":7519,"date":"2013-09-01T10:55:58","date_gmt":"2013-09-01T17:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept13\/?p=7519"},"modified":"2013-09-01T10:55:58","modified_gmt":"2013-09-01T17:55:58","slug":"open-source","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept13\/2013\/09\/01\/open-source\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Source"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few years ago<strong>\u00a0Open Source\u00a0<\/strong>was a real buzz \u2013 the future of software well beyond education. While the movement is still very active, the breakthrough promise hasn\u2019t been realized. \u00a0Yet. \u00a0There are many who believe that the critical mass of openness \u2013 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\u00a0<strong>Open Source<\/strong>\u00a0model 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 \u2013 Open Source<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few years ago\u00a0Open Source\u00a0was a real buzz \u2013 the future of software well beyond education. While the movement is still very active, the breakthrough promise hasn\u2019t been realized. \u00a0Yet. \u00a0There are many who believe that the critical mass of openness \u2013 including new dimensions such as Open Data, Open Licenses, Open Innovation, Open Educational [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7519"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7520,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7519\/revisions\/7520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}