Today's impact of technology is surging through society with how we obtain and use digital resources. There are various methods of communication, rapid distributions of information (blogs, blackboards and e-mail), assistance and conversation with family, friends, businesses around the world and free idea and information. Which brings us to how open source has changed education. When I first heard the words open source, I said" what is open source?" To answer my question and for many others the anwser is: open source is a program that is available to the general public for use and it is free of charge. there are various programs such as Linux, Ubantu, Project Gutenberg, Connexions and the Internet Achive just to name a few.
These programs have allowed educators to have access to a wide variety of learning materials. All of these open sources have changed the way may educators handle their classroom resouces. Many of these programs have done so well that there is almost no need to purchase programs. That is why they are success stories.
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