Education

Meet our EDU team at EDUCAUSE 2024

by Marina Khachatryan on 17 October 2024

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

by Aaron Prisk on 17 August 2023

Linux for schools: why use Ubuntu for education

by Oliver Smith on 23 May 2023

Edge education

by Grazina Borosko on 24 May 2016

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...

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

by Canonical on 22 August 2011

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...

Open source: an educated decision

by Canonical on 20 May 2011

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,...

Ubuntu helps KnowledgeTree build client base and reduce costs

by Canonical on 16 December 2010

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)...

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

by Canonical on 10 November 2010

India-based government information and communication technologies (ICT) provider The Assam Electronics Development Corporation (AMTRON) needed to provide...

Oakland University replaces UNIX with Ubuntu

by Canonical on 4 October 2010

Company overview Oakland University, a state-supported college in Rochester, Mich., teaches some 18,000 students across its liberal arts, business...

Ubuntu supports technology-enabled teaching at The Johns Hopkins University

by Canonical on 30 September 2010

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...

Ubuntu delivers significant cost-savings for specialist sports school

by Canonical on 30 September 2010

Stability, reduced maintenance and significant cost-savings – Ubuntu proved an outstanding choice for Skegness Grammar School. Background Skegness Grammar...

Future of eBooks?

by Canonical on 22 April 2010

Video from YouTube of the Element iPad application.