Development of an open source digital educational ecosystem: Case study
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A real sustainable open source digital educational ecosystem, is presented in this work, developed and described according to theory and working concepts of digital business ecosystems. Adapted for educational needs, some generic terms should be unpacked as follows: digital, refers to ICT infrastructure, applications and services, conceptual frameworks and etc; educational, refers to training modules, digital rights, knowledge sharing, and finally ecosystem, refers to biological metaphor, of an evolutionary online environment, in the state of permanent improvement, according new technologies and social trends. Following case study explain all of those described terms on real digital educational ecosystem, which is developed for educational needs of academic courses of programming languages, on few levels: ICT infrastructure: open source tools, blogs, widgets and storage services, code generators, Google services etc.; Social interaction: surveys, forums, information boards, digital rights management; and Permanent educational improvements: feedbacks from surveys, use of alternative educational services.
Keywords: Digital educational ecosystem, open source technologies.
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