Evaluation of implementation of ict in teachers colleges. Information and communications technology ict is viewed as both a means and an end for development. Open source software has been created or adapted by people who are happy for it to be used for free. Software refers to the programs that we run on our computer systems. Software allows the hardware to do something useful. Examples of popular open source products and types. Explain to students that the software in the previous clip is referred to as open source software and that this is just one of several ways in which we can source software. Open source software is that by which the source code or the base code is usually available for modification or enhancement by anyone for reusability and accessibility. Due to higher speed broadband becoming available, many people are now starting to use hosted applications for their everyday needs. Software definition, the programs used to direct the operation of a computer, as well as documentation giving instructions on how to use them.
Donated and refurbished equipment can carry signifcant. Net and you can extend pwct to support code generation in any text based programming language. To the right is an example image of a home network with multiple computers and other network devices all connected. An excellent example of a network is the internet, which connects millions of people all over the world.
This language called supernova and its freeopen source. Similarly other information technologies, such as database, networks, and programming languages, are used to created organizational systems. Developers of software that is intended to be freely shared and possibly improved and redistributed by others can use the open source trademark if their distribution terms conform to the osis open source definition. Participating in an oss project can be a pathway to building a career in software development, allowing programmers to hone their skills by working on the biggest software programs in the world. The educational community has discovered open source tools in a big way. These devices use multiple information technologies to create personal information systems. From your underlying open source server operating system to the server software that help you get your job done, open source software is a critical part of many it infrastructures. It enables the transfer and communication of devices in a pointtopoint, pointtomultipoint and multipointtomultipoint environment. Every generalpurpose computer must have an operating system to run other programs. Piggybacking, in a wireless communications context, is the unauthorized access of a wireless lan. Information and communications technology ict is an extensional term for information technology it that stresses the role of unified communications and the integration of telecommunications telephone lines and wireless signals and computers, as well as necessary enterprise software, middleware, storage, and audiovisual systems, that enable users to access, store, transmit, and manipulate. Office type software of this kind is called open office. Thakur mckv institute of engineering, liluah, howrah abstract ict in education plays a major role as teachinglearning process is concerned.
In 2009, the number of virtual servers deployed exceeded the number of physical servers. It also presents the perceptions of schools senior management teams smts, teaching staff and pupils about the impact and use of oss. When a software program is open source, it means the programs source code is freely available to the public. A network is a collection of computers, servers, mainframes, network devices, peripherals, or other devices connected to one another to allow the sharing of data. Information and communications technology wikipedia. According to the free software movements leader, richard stallman, the main difference is that by choosing one term over the other i.
Unlike commercial software, open source programs can be modified and distributed by anyone and are often developed as a community rather than by a single organization. Free, open source software for education ict teach. Open network linux is a part of the open compute project and is a component in a growing collection of open source and commercial projects. With roughly twothird of the world economy based on services, and the rise of india, philippines, and other nations as global it players, many developing countries have accepted ict as a national mission. It involves a license in which the holder provides the rights to use, amend, and share the software at no cost and for any purpose. Application software caries out userrelated tasks and can be classified as generalpurpose, specialist or tailormade. A software for which the original source code is made freely available and may be redistributed and modified according to the requirement of the user.
Data transmission is the process of sending digital or analog data over a communication medium to one or more computing, network, communication or electronic devices. Open source software and its impact on teachers and students soma bandyopadhyay mckv institute of engineering, liluah, howrah s. The term hardware describes the physical aspects of computers and related devices. Open source software has been developed by volunteer programmers with the intention of making available freetouse applications. System software includes the operating system and utility programs. To offer the open source software and free software, based on the open standards an d not bound to a single producer, to the institutions. A linux server is a highpowered variant of the linux open source operating system thats designed to handle the more demanding needs of business applications such as network and system administration, database management and web services linux servers are frequently selected over other server operating systems for their stability, security and flexibility advantages. It identifies the ways open source software oss has been incorporated, used and managed in school ict infrastructures. What is information and communication technology ict. It is these instructions which tell the hardware that it needs to print a document or save a file or display a web page. Nevertheless, there is significant overlap between open source software and free software. Open source licenses, such as the general public license gpl impose other rules than those of traditional software licenses or end user license agreements eulas.
Software is a general term for the various kinds of program s used to operate computer s and related devices. But there is an alternative namely completely free software. The document is intended to complement the uk cabinet offices open source options document, which is presented as part of its open source procurement toolkit in recognition that open source software is underused across the public sector. Open source software and information communications technology ict done by. Unity is the default desktop manager in ubuntu since the 11.
Open source solutions are improving how students learnand how instructors teachin communities around the world. Personally i think unity is easy to use and i like it but i understand that other people prefer have a classic menu with applications collected in categories. Many websites such as sourceforge host open source projects and are good places to look for new software. Infrastructure will initially include a wiki, with possible developments including email list hosting, and further sourc. One way for schools to make savings and still offer a wide variety of ict educational tools is through open source software. As such, the aims and context of this document are the same as those stated in the original document. This is communitydriven software with its source code made available to all. What is your opinion about the training initial ict tutor technician. Open network linux is a linux distribution for bare metal switches, that is, network forwarding devices built from commodity components. Piggybacking is sometimes referred to as wifi squatting. Lee yuen ching, dalveender kaur, siti nurbaiti binti mohamed, rebecca lydia. Explain that some software, such as open source, is free and that some software can be changed to suit the users needs.
The college has a project team of 4 staff chief network and system. With closed source software, the company sells a licence that defines how their customers can use the. Thus, pdas, cellular phones, music players, and digital cameras as information systems. Examples of popular open source products and types whatever software your business needs eg for word processing, accounting or running a website it is easy to find an open source version. Below are only a few resources that may help departments and agencies understand the value of open source software and development communities within the public sector, as well as how public institutions can engage with, and implement similar initiatives to realize the greatest returns for.
It is particularly important to learn how to deal with these rules as any breach of open source licenses can. Ict is an umbrella term that includes any communication device or application, encompassing. Candidates need to understand what is meant by a parallel system and the benefits. All the software we have discussed so far have been commercial products. Source code is normally a closely guarded secret of the company that developed it in the first place. Website application to provide opensource style infrastructure to ict information and communications technology projects worldwide. Teachict a level computer science ocr h446 utilities. Many local, regional, and national governments are engaged with open source software and communities. As an interdisciplinary field of science, bioinformatics combines biology, computer science, information engineering, mathematics and statistics to analyze and interpret. Icts are often spoken of in a particular context, such as icts in education.
Read the fascinating and inspiring stories weve collected about how open source is influencing education at all levels. Onl uses onie to install onto onboard flash memory. Lets take a look at a real world example of open source software. Software is made up of a series of instructions or computer code.
Software is a program that enables a computer to perform a specific task, as opposed to the physical components of the system hardware. To support the use of o pen source software and its furt. In 1991, linus torvalds, a student at the university of helsinki in finland, developed a new operating system based on minix, a derivative of unix, which he dubbed linux. It cant be shared across networks unless you have a license to do so.
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