Blog posts tagged
“Education”

13 posts

Marina Khachatryan
17 October 2024

Meet our EDU team at EDUCAUSE 2024

Article Cloud and server

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

Marina Khachatryan
17 October 2024

Aaron Prisk
17 August 2023

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

Article Desktop

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

Aaron Prisk
17 August 2023

Oliver Smith
23 May 2023

Linux for schools: why use Ubuntu for education

Article Desktop

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

Oliver Smith
23 May 2023

Grazina Borosko
24 May 2016

Edge education

Article Ubuntu

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

Grazina Borosko
24 May 2016

Canonical
22 August 2011

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

Design Ubuntu

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...

Canonical
22 August 2011

Canonical
20 May 2011

Open source: an educated decision

White paper Desktop

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
20 May 2011

Canonical
16 December 2010

Ubuntu helps KnowledgeTree build client base and reduce costs

Case study Ubuntu

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...

Canonical
16 December 2010

Canonical
10 November 2010

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

Case study Desktop

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,...

Canonical
10 November 2010

Canonical
4 October 2010

Oakland University replaces UNIX with Ubuntu

Case study Ubuntu

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...

Canonical
4 October 2010

Canonical
30 September 2010

Ubuntu supports technology-enabled teaching at The Johns Hopkins University

Case study Desktop

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....

Canonical
30 September 2010

Canonical
30 September 2010

Ubuntu delivers significant cost-savings for specialist sports school

Case study Desktop

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...

Canonical
30 September 2010

Canonical
22 April 2010

Future of eBooks?

Design Ubuntu

Video from YouTube of the Element iPad application.

Canonical
22 April 2010

Canonical
13 March 2010

Andalusia deploys 220,000 Ubuntu desktops in schools throughout the region

Case study Desktop

Summary The Andalusian Regional Government, Spain, wanted to improve access to IT in schools throughout the region. It asked IT services company infrastructure to connect 2,000 schools in Andalusia. Isotrol implemented 220,000 Ubuntu-based workstations in more than 2,000 schools throughout the region. Now, technology...

Canonical
13 March 2010