[seul-edu] OpenWebSchool

[Douglas Loss <dloss@suscom.net>]

Here's a quote from Georg's Brave GNU World, Issue #26:

OpenWebSchool

     Wilfried Römer and Hans-Peter Prenzel started the
OpenWebSchool [9] project in Berlin, Germany.  Goal is to
etablish a cooperation between elementary- and high-schools and
make school resources available online.

     Based on the principle of Free Software using the GNU
General Public License and the GNU Free Documentation License,
students of the higher grades create learning units for students
of the lower grades and elementary schools. 

     This allows the students of higher grades to gain
experience in program development and web-programming. Thinking
about paedagogical aspects when creating the units also helps
reflecting the own way of learning. Additionally the project
allows introducing students and topics into the internet that
normally have no direct connection with computers.

     Students of the lower grades and elementary schools gain an
interesting addition to the normal classes that also helps
getting familiar with the medium.

     The web-site, central point of the OpenWebSchool, already
contains some lessons in different topics, but due to the nature
of the project and its youth, it is of course not complete.
There is need for more developers and the usability could also
be improved.

     The OpenWebSchool is definitely a very promising project
that will most probably see reimplementation in other countries.
An international cooperation where students of one country
create units for their native language to be used by students of
other countries seems to be the next logical step. 

OpenWebSchool can be seen at http://www.openwebschool.de/

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