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Open Source Software in Education Mohamed Hassaan University of Houston-Clear Lake INST 5035 Creating Digital Resources Dr. Richard Smith April, 2014

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My Area of Research My name is Mohamed Hassaan and I will earn my Master of Science this semester the spring of 2014. I am majoring in Instructional Design and Technology. At UHCL I had meet with great professors who stretched my abilities in doing researches and proposals using technology and many tool. For me, my personal and professional area of research and interest is including: Training Developing (as trainer and instructional designer I do the best to update my abilities and the tools I use to deliver a face to face training session or online ones for individuals or groups) Creating Tutorials Resources (including handy printouts, digital files, and video tutorials)

Personally I do not believe in free software; unless the company is nonprofit one. For example Facebook is providing a free services; but the company worth billions of dollars. The same company Facebook had bought WhatsApp that provide free service, and paid 19 billion dollars for it. However, I cannot even imagine my academic and professional life without these fake free tools. In education we have to use it every day; for higher education and in all schools too. List For more than eight subjects in higher education and all schools too; I will provide free software at least one for each subject (or more up to six maximum) and I will have some comments about the software and its features, advantages, disadvantagesetc. Also I will provid e list of the names of non-free software that compete in the market.

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Subject-Specific Tools Subject

Software Audacity Ardour

Consider as Alternative to ProTools Cubase Sibelius

Comments Audacity enables recording, editing and mixing of audio tracks. It provides a comprehensive suite of editing tools, as well as supporting a range of effects through LADSPA plug-ins. Ardour also provides a suite for recording and editing audio, but unlike Audacity, also supports multi-track recording. Unlike Audacity, Ardour is a non destructive editor, allowing effects to be adjusted repeatedly. Rosegarden provides a multi-track MIDI sequencer and composition environment. Hydrogen is a cross-platform drum machine. MuseScore allows you to create, play and print sheet music.

Real World Use

Music

Rosegarden Hydrogen MuseScore

FL Studio Sibelius

MuseScore is used internationally by schools, universities and private music teachers at all levels, including by Redbridge College and De Montfort University in the UK. Refs http://oss.ly/4b,http://oss.ly/4a Hydrogen is used at Glen View High School in Beaumont, California for teaching loop-based audio production. Refhttp://oss.ly/4u

Gregorio

Grgoire

Gregorio provides tools for the typesetting of Gregorian chant notation. Gregorio can be used via a command

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line, through the TeXWorks GUI, or integrated with the Scribus DTP package.

Ubuntu Studio 64 Studio Musix

Reason

Ubuntu Studio is a specialised Linux distribution focused on media creation. While there is no single open source application that provides all features of a comprehensive package like Reason, there are distributions of Linux designed for studio workstations, combining several applications to provide comparable features. Featured software includes multi-track recorders, MIDI sequencers, virtual amplifiers and effects processors. Ubuntu Studio also features JACK, an advanced audio system allowing the audio inputs and outputs of separate applications to be connected together. As with many Linux distributions, studio-focused distributions can often be run from CD for testing without installing anything to the computers hard drive. KDEnlive and PiTiVi are fully featured multi-track non-linear video editors. Based on open source media libraries, a wide range of video and audio formats are supported from a large number of devices.

Film/Media Production

KDEnlive PiTiVi Blender Avidemux OpenShot

Windows Movie Maker Final Cut Pro Adobe Premiere

The 2010 Undergraduate and Postgraduate fine art exhibition at the University of Reading featured a piece of digital sculpture created with Blender. Ref http://oss.ly/4d University of Plymouth use Blender

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Cinerella-cv

Output to standard formats including H.264 is supported, as well as lossless formats. Blender is an industry-quality tool for 3D animation.

as part of its Media Production degree, and for data visualisation in their planetarium. Refhttp://oss.ly/4e, http://oss.ly/4f Lancaster University provides Avidemux in its computer labs. Ref http://oss.ly/4g

Theatre/Drama

Q Light Controller

WYSIWYG

Q Light Controller is a cross-platform application for controlling DMX or analogue lighting systems like moving heads, dimmers, scanners etc. Soundboard is a cross-platform tool for building and executing sound cues. Celtx is a fully-featured cross-platform screen-writing application. Celtx can sync with cloud services and mobile apps, although these are not open source. Fountain is a plain-text format which can be used for screen writing and rendered to a formatted screenplay. The GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) provides a complete set of tools for editing bitmaps, including layering, effects, and colour tools. Plug-ins and scripts are supported to provide extensibility. Images can be imported from a range

Soundboard

QLab SFX Final Draft

Celtx Fountain

Art/Photography

The GIMP

Adobe Photoshop Z Brush

The engineering department at the University of Cambridge uses GIMP for image manipulation. Refhttp://oss.ly/4h London Metropolitan University provides GIMP as an alternative to

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of formats, including from scanners and Photoshop files. Images can be saved to a range of standard formats. A large community of users have produced extensive documentation and tutorials on The GIMPs features. Photography workflow and RAW processing tools

Photoshop. Refhttp://oss.ly/4i

Darktable UFRaw

Adobe Lightroom Apple Aperture Adobe Bridge Adobe Illustrator

Inkscape

Inkscape is a cross-platform program for creating vector graphics, based on the standard SVG format. Importing and exporting of bitmap graphics formats is supported, as is import of Adobe Illustrator files. Scribus is a cross-platform Desktop Publishing application. As well as typesetting, a range of standard image formats are supported, as are Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator files. As well as animation, Blender can be used for 3D modelling. Models created in Blender can be used

The Oxford Internet Institute uses Inkscape to produce data visualisations. Refhttp://oss.ly/4k

Design and Technology

Scribus

Adobe InDesign QuarkXPress

University of Oxford IT Services run a termly course on Desktop Publishing with Scribus. Refhttp://oss.ly/4l

Blender

3ds Max

The Blender community has a forum for discussing blender usage in Academic and Research contexts.

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for 3D printing.

Refhttp://oss.ly/4j

QCAD LibreCAD

AutoCAD

QCAD and LibreCAD are a crossplatform 2D CAD packages. LibreCAD is based on QCAD but provides a more modern interface FreeCAD is a 3D CAD package.

FreeCAD

AutoCAD SolidWorks Microsoft Visual Studio

Computing

Eclipse NetBeans MonoDevelop

Eclipse and NetBeans are both popular general purpose Integrated Development Environments (IDEs). Eclipse is used as the basis for many platforms Software Development Kits (SDKs), including Android. Eclipse and NetBeans support a variety of languages through plug-ins and extensions. MonoDevelop is an IDE specifically designed for building cross-platform software using an open source implementation of the .NET framework (Mono). Scratch is a language designed for teaching programming concepts, allowing students to create programs by dragging blocks onto a canvas rather than typing commands. Ruby, Python and PHP are all widelyused interpreted programming A recent survey of the UK Computing At School (CAS) and Computers of Education Society in Ireland (CESI) communities showed Scratch to be the most widely taught language for 11-14 year olds, Python and Scratch to be the 2 most widely

Scratch Ruby Python PHP Lazarus

Pascal Delphi Visual Basic VB.NET

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languages. Lazarus is an alternative to Delphi, can run on both Windows and Linux platforms and uses an almost identical interface. PHP is designed for building dynamic web applications. Many common web applications such as Wordpress, MediaWiki, Drupal and Moodle are written in PHP. Ruby and Python are powerful multipurpose languages which can be used to build both desktop and web applications. Ruby and Python feature consistent intuitive syntax which makes them ideal for teaching. Each language is supported by a vibrant community of users and developers, which comprehensive documentation. Applications that help in running experiments in psychology, for example presenting stimuli to subjects and measuring responses PEBL comes with a library of common tests Allow users to develop their own experiments using scripting or programming

taught languages for 14-16 year olds, and Python to be the second most widely taught for 16-18 year olds. Refhttp://oss.ly/4n

Psychology

PsyScope PEBL

Presentation

PsyScope is used by many university Psychology departments in the UK, including University of Bangor.http://oss.ly/4m

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Geography Related Subjects

gvSIG Educa GRASS GIS JUMP GIS

Bentley Map MapInfo Geospatial

gvSIG Educa is a customization of the gvSIG Desktop Open Source GIS, adapted as a tool for the education of issues that have a geographic component. The aim is to provide educators with a tool that helps students to analyse and understand space, and which can be adapted to different levels or education systems. gvSIG Educa is not only useful for the teaching of geographic material, but can also be used for learning any subject that contains a spatial component such as history, economics, natural science, sociology Facilitates learning by letting students interact with the information, by adding a spatial component to the study of the material, and by facilitating the assimilation of concepts through visual tools such as thematic maps. gvSIG Educa provides analysis tools that help to understand spatial relationships. Other open source GIS packages provide similar feature sets. Open Circuit Design is a collection of tools providing features such as PCB layout design and component

gvSIG Educa arose out of the gvSIG Batov distribution, which is available to all children of Common Education (grades 1 to 6) and their respective teachers in public schools across Uruguay, thanks to the Ceibal project. Refshttp://oss.ly/4v, http://oss.ly/4w

Engineering

Open Circuit Design

NI MultiSIM

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simulation. Religious Studies

The SWORD Project Zekr Quran

Logos E-Sword Al-Misbah

The SWORD project provides free cross-platform tools for bible study. Zekr Quran is a cross-platform tool for Quran study R is a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics. It is an open source implementation of the S programing language. R-Commander is a basic statistics GUI for R, consisting of a window containing menus, buttons, and information fields. Sage is a free open-source mathematics software system licensed under the GPL. It combines the power of many existing open-source packages into a common interface. Sages mission is to create a viable free open source alternative to Magma, Maple, Mathematica and Matlab.

Mathematics & Statistics

R R Commander

SPSS SAS S-PLUS Minitab MATLAB

R is widely used by professional statisticians and data miners, as well as professors and university students. Refhttp://oss.ly/5a

SageMath

MATLAB Magma Maple Mathematica

SageMath is used and developed by a broad community of academics from institutions around the world. Refs http://oss.ly/5b,http://oss.ly/5c, h ttp://oss.ly/5d

Extension Credit for Unit Seven Other than eight subjects in higher education and all schools too; I will provide free software at least one for others academic use and I will have some comments about the software and its features, advantages, disadvantagesetc. Also I will provide list of the names of non -free software that compete in the market.