eScholar’s only business is helping state and local education agencies get the best bang for their buck from collecting and using educational data to drive better school performance results. That sometimes involves helping its customers work with data gleaned from a variety of commercial and open source enterprise databases. Other times, it becomes a task performed by eScholar’s own in-house software solutions built around open source code.
Even though this article didn't touch on using open source software on the desktop as much, that is also a very important part of the educational equation. I've seen open source software, most notably GNU/Linux greatly succeed for educational purposes. Not only for younger children with high quality games like GCompris, TuxMath, TuxType, etc. But it increases (in my opinion) with older students as well because the source code is always available. this is in addition to providing top quality software like the GNU/Linux operating system, LibreOffice, Stellarium, and thousands of other science/math applications. And best of all, it costs nothing. To me, it wins hands down every time. I'm surprised more schools don't adopt it. Microsoft has bought its way in to schools in the past with its cash pile, but I think that is getting harder for them to do.
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eScholar's Mike Gargano: Nothing Can Stop Open Source
Posted by: Jack M. Germain February 12, 2013 05:00 AMeScholar’s only business is helping state and local education agencies get the best bang for their buck from collecting and using educational data to drive better school performance results. That sometimes involves helping its customers work with data gleaned from a variety of commercial and open source enterprise databases. Other times, it becomes a task performed by eScholar’s own in-house software solutions built around open source code.