开源软件在高校的应用与推广策略研究

From Open Educational Resources to Open Source Software:On the Use of OSS in Higher Education Institutions

在UNESCO的大力推动下,MIT的“开放课件计划”已在世界范围内掀起了一场“开放式教育资源”(OERs)运动。而OECD的教育创新研究中心所提出的将“开放源代码软件”(OSS)作为开放式教育资源之必要组成部分的观点,又将OERs与OSS紧密地联系在一起,从技术角度为OERs运动提供了更强大的动力。本文以开放源代码在高校中的应用为研究主题,论述了OSS国外的应用状况及其对高校信息化建设的重要价值和促进作用,并对OSS在国外高校受到重视的原因进行了详细分析。以此为基础,研究者提出,在国内高校推广和应用OSS不仅可以有效地降低校园信息化的成本,更为重要的是,OSS体现了与高等教育机构相同的价值观念和哲学理念,即:知识是由全人类共同创造的,理应以开放的形式来向每一个成员提供。在论文的最后,研究者也提出在一些在国内高校中促进OSS应用的方法与建议。

Drove by the UNESCO,the Open CourseWare Project of MIT has initiated a worldwide movement of Open Educational Resources (OERs).The education research center of OECD puts forward that the Open Source Software (OSS) should be the necessary component of OERs,which firms the close correlation between OERs and OSS,and offers more technical power to OERs.The paper discusses mainly the situation of OSS used in foreign higher education institutions,and analyses the reasons why those HEI pay so great attention to OSS.Then,the authors point out that OSS is very valuable for campus computing,not only because the OSS can reduce the cost of ICT application in universities and colleges,but also the spirit and philosophy of OSS is consistent with that of HEI,that is:knowledge is created collectively by human being,so it should be provided and accessible to everyone.Finally,they also raise some suggestions for the acceleration of OSS in China universities and colleges.