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Re: [opensuse-edu] what does LTSP\thin client technology mean to you?
- From: Ian Lynch <ian.lynch@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 14:52:22 +0100
- Message-id: <1184853142.5817.152.camel@Zaphod>
On Thu, 2007-07-19 at 14:16 +0100, Andy Trevor wrote:
> The core of LTSP technology is sound and a no brainer. The killer here
> in the UK is the lack of "quality" educational apps.
>
> Everyone can see that thin client is a great way to get value for money,
> but until the environment can be taught on, then it will always be an issue.
I agree with Andy. Education is about supporting learning in its widest
sense. I think that thin clients will come into their own when there are
sufficient web based learning apps to support the entire curriculum in
some sort of coherent way. I think that type of support is more likely
to come from Ubuntu than any other distro given the emphasis
Shuttleworth places on education. It doesn't mean that any one vendor
has to produce all the resource themselves, but there is already a need
to pull what is out there together in some sort of coherent way. Not
just the Linux apps but information on web sites like Wikipedia etc. If
the apps are available to any web browser there is money to be made in
providing the service of organising them. We might as well take the
money off Windows users to help finance development. Once it is the norm
to get apps from the internet to W3C standards there is no real
imperative to use proprietary infrastructure. So if companies like Novel
and Canonical want to have sustainable businesses in schools they have
to start thinking beyond technical infrastructure. Once everything is
web based there will be little need for network managers in schools.
Schools will need educational content and service providers not
technical support.
Ian
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> The core of LTSP technology is sound and a no brainer. The killer here
> in the UK is the lack of "quality" educational apps.
>
> Everyone can see that thin client is a great way to get value for money,
> but until the environment can be taught on, then it will always be an issue.
I agree with Andy. Education is about supporting learning in its widest
sense. I think that thin clients will come into their own when there are
sufficient web based learning apps to support the entire curriculum in
some sort of coherent way. I think that type of support is more likely
to come from Ubuntu than any other distro given the emphasis
Shuttleworth places on education. It doesn't mean that any one vendor
has to produce all the resource themselves, but there is already a need
to pull what is out there together in some sort of coherent way. Not
just the Linux apps but information on web sites like Wikipedia etc. If
the apps are available to any web browser there is money to be made in
providing the service of organising them. We might as well take the
money off Windows users to help finance development. Once it is the norm
to get apps from the internet to W3C standards there is no real
imperative to use proprietary infrastructure. So if companies like Novel
and Canonical want to have sustainable businesses in schools they have
to start thinking beyond technical infrastructure. Once everything is
web based there will be little need for network managers in schools.
Schools will need educational content and service providers not
technical support.
Ian
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