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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Pan, Guohua; Bonk, Curtis J. – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2007
The open-source software movement is gaining increasing momentum in China. Of the limited numbers of open-source software in China, "Red Flag Linux" stands out most strikingly, commanding 30 percent share of Chinese software market. Unlike the spontaneity of open-source movement in North America, open-source software development in China, such as…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Management Systems, Distance Education, Computer Software
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Lee, Mimi Miyoung; Lin, Meng-Fen Grace; Bonk, Curtis J. – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2007
An all-volunteer organization called the Opensource Opencourseware Prototype System (OOPS), headquartered in Taiwan, was initially designed to translate open source materials from MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) site into Chinese. Given the recent plethora of open educational resources (OER), such as the OCW, the growing use of such resources by the…
Descriptors: Global Education, Translation, Quality Control, Foreign Countries
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Pan, Guohua; Bonk, Curtis J. – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2007
Unlike conventional models of software development, the open source model is based on the collaborative efforts of users who are also co-developers of the software. Interest in open source software has grown exponentially in recent years. A "Google" search for the phrase open source in early 2005 returned 28.8 million webpage hits, while less than…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Participative Decision Making, Models, Innovation