Utilizing Open Source Tools for Online Teaching and Learning: Applying Linux Technologies

Utilizing Open Source Tools for Online Teaching and Learning: Applying Linux Technologies

Lee Chao
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Release Date: May, 2009|Copyright: © 2009 |Pages: 364
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-376-0
ISBN13: 9781605663760|ISBN10: 160566376X|EISBN13: 9781605663777
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It is necessary for online teaching designers and developers to understand the roles played by open source products in developing and supporting an online learning system.

Utilizing Open Source Tools for Online Teaching and Learning: Applying Linux Technologies covers strategies on using and evaluating open source products for online teaching and learning systems. By going through each phase of the development process, this book provides comprehensive coverage on the application of open source products to meet the goals and objectives of instructional technology.

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The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:

  • Client computer systems
  • Database development for online courses
  • Developing online teaching and learning systems
  • Instructional technology theory
  • Network development and management
  • Online course materials
  • Online Teaching and Learning
  • Open source products
  • Security Management
  • Server development and management
  • Trends and advances in online teaching
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This book focuses on the roles played by open source products in the development process of an online teaching/learning system. For each major component in the online teaching/learning system, the book provides the information about the open source products involved in that component and describes how the open source products are used in that component.

– Lee Chao, University of Houston-Victoria, USA
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Li Chao is currently a professor of math and computer science in the school of Arts and Sciences at University of Houston, Victoria (USA). He received his PhD from the University of Wyoming (USA) and he is certified as Oracle Certified Professional and Microsoft Solution Developer. His current research interests are data analysis and technology-based teaching. Dr. Chao is also the author of over a dozen of research articles in data analysis and math modeling, and books in the development of computer labs and database systems.
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