Open source culture and concepts help students, professors, and communities have a better learning experience, being independent of tech giants that always call the shots, and therefore free to share their ideas and build on the work of others.
Universities do their best to develop and support various open source initiatives. Thus, there is the Open Source University Alliance, an initiative of the Erasmus Without Paper project. Their goal is to help all higher education institutions meet the latest demands of digital transformation.
The alliance is creating an open repository of source code and software so that the higher education community has access to multiple tools and services necessary for teaching and learning. Among HEIs that have already taken part in the initiative and shared open source solutions are the University of Porto, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, University of Münster, and Ghent University.
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Nowadays, it is no surprise that a lot of universities, academies, colleges, conservatories, etc. have already implemented open source software in their learning process. Open source culture and concepts help students, professors, and communities have a better learning experience, being independent of tech giants that always call the shots, and therefore free to share their ideas and build on the work of others. Let’s explore why open source software is so attractive for Higher Education Institutions (HEI) in Europe.