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"Education"

Marina Khachatryan
17 October 2024

Meet our EDU team at EDUCAUSE 2024

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

We’re excited to announce our participation in EDUCAUSE 2024. ...

Aaron Prisk
17 August 2023

Ubuntu in education: A K-12 IT Director’s experience

Desktop Ubuntu tech blog

Former IT Director and Systems Administrator Aaron Prisk shares his experiences migrating a Pennsylvanian school district to Ubuntu. ...

Oliver Smith
23 May 2023

Linux for schools: why use Ubuntu for education

Desktop Ubuntu tech blog

How Ubuntu Desktop combines hardware support, administrative and productivity tools to empower students and keep control in the hands of educators. ...

Grazina Borosko
24 May 2016

Edge education

Ubuntu Ubuntu tech blog

Last year we were working on OOBE redesign with the aim to improve first user experience with Ubuntu phone. Now the Design Team is working on the second part of this project which we call Edge Education. The purpose of Edge Education is to aid discoverability and to educate users into using them naturally. For ...

Canonical
22 August 2011

History of the Alphabet (Hebrew, Greek, Cyrillic, Latin, Arabic)

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The BBC just put up a five-minute audio slideshow “The story of how we got our alphabets” about the development of western writing, starting in 3,000 BC in Mesopotamia with various attempts at proto-writing systems and then Cuneiform script. It shows the history of the alphabet, stemming from the Phoenician alphabet and continuing to the ...

Canonical
20 May 2011

Open source: an educated decision

Desktop Ubuntu tech blog

In this white paper, we de-bunk the myths that proprietary companies have built up to discredit open-source technology, explaining how it can help schools, colleges and universities reduce costs, improve IT performance, and prepare students more effectively for the world of work. ...

Canonical
16 December 2010

Ubuntu helps KnowledgeTree build client base and reduce costs

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Innovative cloud solution serves 200 times the clients for a quarter of the cost Summary KnowledgeTree wanted to introduce a Software as a Service (SaaS) version of its popular document management solution. Its new infrastructure needed to be scalable, responsive and easy to manage. KnowledgeTree worked with Canonical partner RightScale t ...

Canonical
10 November 2010

AMTRON delivers 28,000 Ubuntu-based PCs to students in Assam

Desktop Ubuntu tech blog

India-based government information and communication technologies (ICT) provider The Assam Electronics Development Corporation (AMTRON) needed to provide every Assam student who achieved 60 per cent or higher in their school leaving exams with a free PC. AMTRON needed to comply with strict budgets to deliver reliable, easy-to-use PCs to t ...

Canonical
4 October 2010

Oakland University replaces UNIX with Ubuntu

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Company overview Oakland University, a state-supported college in Rochester, Mich., teaches some 18,000 students across its liberal arts, business administration, health sciences, engineering and computer science schools. The 3,000-student School of Engineering and Computer Science (SECS), like many like-minded institutes, has deep roots ...

Canonical
30 September 2010

Ubuntu supports technology-enabled teaching at The Johns Hopkins University

Desktop Ubuntu tech blog

Cost-effective, easy-to-use and reliable, Ubuntu proved to be the open source platform of choice on which to build a support system for technology-enabled classrooms at The Johns Hopkins University. Background America’s first research university, The Johns Hopkins University is a world leader in research and education. Sean Stanley, Instr ...

Canonical
30 September 2010

Ubuntu delivers significant cost-savings for specialist sports school

Desktop Ubuntu tech blog

Stability, reduced maintenance and significant cost-savings – Ubuntu proved an outstanding choice for Skegness Grammar School. Background Skegness Grammar School is a small selective school on the Lincolnshire coast. It acts as a specialist college for sport for nearly 800 pupils, and has a boarding provision for around 60. Alistair Crust ...

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