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Want to know how to take advantage of the Web to become a NetGeneration learner? NetGeners.Net is a free and open learning space for you to develop the skills you need in today's lifelong learning and knowledge societies. You might think of NetGeners.Net as a course, just that it is Free, Open and flexible without fixed start and end date. Check also out what experienced so far on youtube...

Want to know how to take advantage of the Web to become a NetGeneration learner? NetGeners.Net is a free and open learning space for you to develop the skills you need in today's lifelong learning and knowledge societies. You might think of NetGeners.Net as a course, just that it is Free, Open and flexible without fixed start and end date. Check also out what experienced so far on youtube...

The full title of this pilot course is “NetGeners.Net: The ne(x)t generation learner - Skills you need in lifelong learning knowledge and information societies”. This is a pilot course in the light of free and open education! The course is free: free to attend without any charge, free of cost for books or other materials, free for anyone independently of prior education; and free in terms o...

I really wonder how education might look like in 10 years from now. I just received a mail from Debbie in OZ who was impressed by the NetGeners.Net approach (www.netgeners.net), that builds upon the work of our FLOSSCom project (www.flosscom.net). Well I do have my very own vision on 10 years from now, but from a vivid chat with some colleagues at IET, I understand that there seem to be many hu...

Andreas Meiszner, Rüdiger Glott and Sulayman K.Sowe gave a presentation at the 4th International Barcelona Conference on Higher Education, March 31 - April 2, 2008. The presentation and underlying paper focused on “Preparing the Ne(x)t Generation: Lessons learnt from Free/Libre Open Source Software”. Both are now available at the FLOSSCom download area. This forth edition of the GUNI Confere...

This report examines some of the pedagogic principles embodied in Free / Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) communities and briefly looks at case studies of FLOSS-like approaches in education. It analyzes and evaluates the differences between Free / Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) communities as informal learning environments and on the other side formal educational settings The report...

The full title of this pilot course is “NetGeners.Net: The ne(x)t generation learner - Skills you need in lifelong learning knowledge and information societies”. A pilot course in the light of free and open education! This course is free: free to attend without any charge, free of cost for books or other materials, free for anyone independently of prior education; and free in terms of your ...

Introduction to the NetGeners.Net pilot course. The full title of this pilot course is “NetGeners.Net: The ne(x)t generation learner - Skills you need in lifelong learning knowledge and information societies”. A pilot course in the light of free and open education! This course is free: free to attend without any charge, free of cost for books or other materials, free for anyone independen...

Introduction to the NetGeners.Net pilot course. The full title of this pilot course is “NetGeners.Net: The ne(x)t generation learner - Skills you need in lifelong learning knowledge and information societies”. A pilot course in the light of free and open education! This course is free: free to attend without any charge, free of cost for books or other materials, free for anyone independen...

In recent times, Free / Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) is making inroads not only in business and software industries but in colleges and universities as well. There is increased interest in the FLOSS learning environment (Sowe, et al., 2004; Bacon and Dillion, 2006) and in FLOSS projects as bazaars of learning (Sowe, et al., 2006). As Faber (2002) noted, FLOSS is both an alternative teachi...