The Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), which represents higher education institutions in the UK, has released a briefing paper that strongly supports open source software for education. JISC’s Development Director stated:
JISC sees open source software as an important component in developing a sustainable ICT infrastructure for UK higher and further education. This briefing paper sets out JISC’s position clearly, providing institutions with the information they need to make informed choices. JISC also emphasizes the separate but complementary role of open standards which is key to enabling institutions to integrate both open source and commercial products in their ICT infrastructure according to their priorities, needs and available budgets.
Canada does not appear to have a similar type of organisation and so it seems that we will go on spending more money on technology and less on learning.
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