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. This book covers strategies for using and evaluating open source products for online teaching and learning systems. By going...

"This book reviews open and free software used in e-learning, examines the pedagogy behind FOSS and how it is applied to e-learning, and discusses the best practices for FOSS through real world examples, providing guidelines for e-learning designers and instructors who use FOSS"--Provided by...

"This book addresses the question of whether or not information has become a commodity and examines how infonomics and the "business of free" have changed the way companies must create and market their information to make it most accessible and valuable for their consumers"--Provided by publisher.

"This book boldly focuses on a unique area of virtual learning by adopting a theoretical point of view and discussing the planning, organizing, securing and managing of resources to bring about the successful completion of online learning goals and objectives"--Provided by publisher.

"This book discusses the recent developments in open source GIS in terms of addition of new geospatial tools, development platforms, software libraries, wide ranging applications etc. in context of desktop as well as web versions. The comprehensive details of efforts of developer communities...

"This book reviews the development, design, and use of free and open source software, providing relevant topics of discussion for programmers, as well as researchers in human-computer studies, online and virtual collaboration, and e-learning"--Provided by publisher.

"This book helps readers better understand open source software and its application in mobile learning, covering open culture and mobile learning in the open source setting and reviewing the pros and cons of various types of mobile network architecture, mobile devices, open source mobile...

Key aspects on free and open source enterprise resources planning systems / Rogerio Atem de Carvalho, Björn Johansson -- An analytical survey of free/open source ERP systems and their potential marketplace in Brazil / Marcelo Monsores, Asterio Tanaka -- Why selecting an open source ERP over...

1. Open cloud technologies / Andres-Leonardo Martinez-Ortiz -- 2. The OpenNebula cloud toolkit / Daniel Molina ... [et al.] -- 3. EMOTIVE Cloud: The BSC's IaaS open source solution for cloud computing / Alex Vaqué ... [et al.] -- 4. An innovative open source middleware for managing virtual...

"This book is a multidisciplinary collection of research and approaches on the applications and processes of open source software, highlighting the development processes performed by software programmers, the motivations of its participants, and the legal and economic issues that have been...