Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-edu (26 mails)

[Phil Thane <phil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 20 March 2007 13:08, Paul Taylor wrote:
> Hi all:
>
> There is an excellent new open source based qualification called INGOTs
> (www.theingots.org).  In the UK it is now QCA sanctioned and there are lots
> of academies around the world so it is open and global.  It is designed and
> maintained by people active in the open source community, adheres to strict
> open source principles, and should therefore receive our full support, I
> think.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Paul

I absolutely agree, the problem (as ever) is that unless something comes froma 
mainstream publisher or examinations body few teachers will ever get to hear 
about it. AQA, Edexel, WJEC etc are known, if someone is looking for an exam 
to set, they go there. 

Then there are still teachers who think they know the mind of industry and 
believe that anything Microsoft is 'Industry Standard' and therefore what 
they shuold use. I've tried arguing in the past that 'common' doesn't 
mean 'standard' and I've tried pointing out that schools are in the 
education 'industry' so just because some office down the road is using MS 
Word doesn't mean it is in anyway suited to school use. 

However we have to keep on trying. OpenSuSE-edu, Schoolforge, and anyone else 
in the FLOSSIE movement should support INGOTs

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