As costs around the world continue to rise for education, institutions must become innovative in the ways they teach and grow students. To do this effectively professors and administrative staff should push toward the utilization of Open Software (OSS) and virtual tools to enhance or supplement currently available tools. In developing countries OSS applications would allow students the ability to learn critical technological skills for success at small fraction of the cost. OSS also provides faculty members the ability to dissect source code and prepare students for low level software development. It is critical that all institutions look at alternatives in providing training and delivering educational material regardless of limitations going forward as the world continues to be more global due to the increased use of technologies everywhere. Doing this could provide a means of shortening the education gap in many countries. Through reviewing the available technology, possible implementations of these technologies, and the application of these items in graduate coursework could provide a starting point in integrating these tools into academia. When administrators or faculty debate the possibilities of OSS, gaming, and simulation tools this applied research provides a guide for changing the ability to develop students that will be competitive on a global level.
4.18.24 Movement Legacies, Reflection, and Review.pptx
Innovation in cs/it via open source software
1. INNOVATION IN
CS/IT VIA OPEN
SOURCE
SOFTWARE
MAURICE DAWSON, DCS, MBA, MS
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
ALABAMA A&M UNIVERSITY
COLLEGE OF BUSINESS & PUBLIC AFFAIRS
2. • Assistant Professor of MIS at
Alabama A&M University
• Editor-in-chief of the Journal
of Information Systems &
Technology Planning (JISTP)
• International Advisory Board
of the Indian Journal of
Commerce & Management
Studies
• Book chapter author for
Gaming & Simulation in
Higher Education
• Encyclopedia chapter author
for the Encyclopedia of
Information Science &
Technology
• Over 25 peer reviewed
journal articles and 65 peer
reviewed proceedings
published
WHO AM I
Colorado Tech Degrees
• Master of Business
Administration in 2010
• Doctor of Computer
Science in 2009
• Master of Science in
Management in 2006
3. REASONS TO BE
PROUD OF YOUR
DOCTORAL
PROGRAM
COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING & COMPUTER
SCIENCE BACKGROUND INFORMATION
6. TOPICS
Linux & Open Source Applications
Open Source Technologies
Research, Service, & Teaching
Research Tools
7. PRESENTATION
OVERVIEW
As costs around the world continue to rise for education, institutions must
become innovative in the ways they teach and grow students. To do this
effectively professors and administrative staff should push toward the
utilization of Open Software (OSS) and virtual tools to enhance or
supplement currently available tools. In developing countries OSS
applications would allow students the ability to learn critical technological
skills for success at small fraction of the cost. OSS also provides faculty
members the ability to dissect source code and prepare students for low level
software development. It is critical that all institutions look at alternatives in
providing training and delivering educational material regardless of limitations
going forward as the world continues to be more global due to the increased
use of technologies everywhere. Doing this could provide a means of
shortening the education gap in many countries. Through reviewing the
available technology, possible implementations of these technologies, and
the application of these items in graduate coursework could provide a starting
point in integrating these tools into academia. When administrators or faculty
debate the possibilities of OSS, gaming, and simulation tools this applied
research provides a guide for changing the ability to develop students that
will be competitive on a global level.
10. BEFORE LINUX
In 80’s, Microsoft’s DOS was the dominated OS for PC
Apple MAC was better, but expensive
UNIX was much better, but much, much more expensive. Only for
minicomputer for commercial applications
People was looking for a UNIX based system, which is cheaper
and can run on PC
Both DOS, MAC and UNIX were proprietary, i.e., the source code
of their kernel is protected
No modification is possible without paying high license fees
11. Established in 1984 by Richard
Stallman, who believes that
software should be free from
restrictions against copying or
modification in order to make
better and efficient computer
programs
GNU PROJECT
12. BEGINNING OF LINUX
A famous professor Andrew Tanenbaum developed Minix, a
simplified version of UNIX that runs on PC
Minix is for class teaching only. No intention for commercial use
In Sept 1991, Linus Torvalds, a second year student of Computer
Science at the University of Helsinki, developed the preliminary
kernel of Linux, known as Linux version 0.0.1
13. • Over 400 Linux OS
available!
• Popular distros are Ubuntu,
Fedora, Red Hat, SuSE, Puppy
Linux, Damn Small Linux
• Distrowatch List
• Approximately 29 million people
are Linux users worldwide
LINUX BASED
OPERATING SYSTEMS
27. OPEN SOURCE
APPLICATION
REPOSITORIES
OSALT
Open Source an
Alternative (OSALT)
has 100's of open
source replacements
for popular software
such as Adobe
Photoshop, IBM
Rational Rose,
Microsoft Project,
Microsoft Office, and
many more.
SOURCEFORGE
Sourceforge has over
300,000 active OSS
projects.