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Just over a year ago, I reported on a remarkable speech by the UK Education Secretary Michael Gove that contained the following words: ...

Techdirt has been following open textbooks for some time now, and 2012 looks to be a bumper year for them. Here, for example, is a major...

Recently, an interesting report entitled "The legacy of the BBC Micro" appeared ( freely available online ). For those of you to...

One of the fields that is ripe for disruption by open digital technologies and business models based on abundance is education. That...

The Raspberry Pi is a $25 credit-card sized computer that has succeeded in making GNU/Linux not just newsworthy, but downright desirable...

After years of unforgivable inaction, the education world is finally addressing the continuing disgrace that is computer teaching in this ...

If we are to believe the early signs, 2012 may well be the year that British schools finally start to address the continuing shame that i...

Just under a month ago, the "Chaos Computer Club" (CCC), which styles itself as "the largest European hacker club", had ...

OpenCourseWare - putting texts and videos of educational lectures online for anyone to download, use and often build on - is a great idea.  ...

There's been a lot of chatter about Apple possibly switching to ARM chips for its laptops and even its desktops. Whether or not that is ...

One of the biggest disgraces in this country is the way that computing is taught - or rather, the way it is not taught. I know as a parent f...

One of the things that warms the cockles of my heart is the widening ripple of open source. Starting, as it did, with core system software,...

As new technologies arrive, and the cost of hardware components fall, innovative designs become possible Here's one that looks promisin...

Not quite on the scale of cancelling the ID cards project, the news that Becta would be shut down was nonetheless further evidence of the co...

One of the miracles of free software is that it always begins with one or two people saying: “hey, how hard can it be?” The miracle is that ...

Here's an interesting project: the Open Course Library . These are its goals : * design 81 high enrollment courses for face-to-face, hy...

I've written before about Russia's ambitious plan to install free software throughout its education system. Worrying news suggest...

Here's an unbelievably shameless attempt by Sir Roger Singleton to shout down the justified concern in the face of the insane UK govern...

I'm amazed Microsoft hasn't done this before: Microsoft's Education Labs launched a new project this afternoon and it's bet...

As regular readers of this blog will know, I am intrigued by the way that ideas from free software are moving across to different discipline...