Open Source Software for Education

10 Sep 2010
Publication Source: 
Open Source Victoria, Creative Contingencies
Publication Date: 
September, 2010

Open Source Victoria has a listing of a number of Open Source software solutions for the education industry.  While these are targeted at schools, many of the software packages can be utilised by Neighbourhood Houses in their management and program delivery.

Software solutions in the listing include:

  • Teaching resources
  • Language learning tools
  • Accounting tools
  • Education administration tools
  • Word processing and desktop publishing tools
  • Childrens' educational games and applications
  • Wiki tools & news portals

You can browse the listing at the Open Source Victoria website:

http://www.osv.org.au/education 

You can also download a work-in-progress catalogue of Open Source Software for Schools from the Creative Contingencies website:

http://cc.com.au/free-software-for-schools 

Open Source Software is community built and maintained software that is available free to download.  An advantage of Open Source Software is that the software is built with a community focus, and for widely used packages there is a lot of community-written documentation on how to use them.  In addition, there are forums where you can ask questions about the software, and the users of the software can report bugs or request features for future releases.