Open Toolkit

Posted on January 27, 2012 by David Baker

Last week we held another successful Skills Toolkit event here in the IT Learning Programme. This is where we give research students the opportunity to try out a collection of tools that they might find useful in their research and … Continue reading →

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Teaching with Free Software

Posted on November 8, 2011 by David Baker

Richard Stallman, pioneer of the CopyLeft and GNU General Public Licences for free software was in Oxford last Friday, and gave his usual thought provoking discourse on freedom in software. It isn’t for me to precis his ideas here; you … Continue reading →

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