[ Thanks to James
Maguire for this link. ]
“The educational community has discovered open source
tools in a big way. Analysts predict that schools will spend up to
$489.9 million on support and services for open source software by
2012, and that only includes charges related to operating systems
and learning management systems. Teachers, professors and home
schoolers are using open source applications as part of their
educational curriculum for a wide variety of subjects.“In addition, educators have created numerous organizations and
Web sites dedicated to open source educational software, including
SchoolForge, the Open Source Education Foundation (OSEF),
OpenOptions, the National Center for Open Source and Education and
FlossEd.org“For this list, we’ve collected educational apps from a variety
of categories that can replace popular commercial software. In many
cases, the open source options listed here offer features that
aren’t matched by their closed source counterparts. And while we
limited our list to 50 apps, you can find many more on the
Web.”