Red Hat Honors Instructors Who Champion Open Source Education
01 March 2018 - 1:00AM
Business Wire
Eight instructors recognized for incorporating
open source into their academic work
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open
source solutions, today recognized eight higher education
instructors for their continuing efforts to incorporate open source
philosophies, methods and tools into their academic work.
For the second year, Red Hat is honoring the work of higher
education instructors who are committed to teaching the open source
development process to their students. The majority of honorees are
past participants in Professor’s Open Source Software Experience
(POSSE). Launched by Red Hat in 2009, POSSE is a cultural immersion
in the tools and practices of open source communities, designed for
instructors looking for ways to bring their students into active
participation in those communities. These workshops are made
possible through National Science Foundation grants awarded to
Drexel University, Nassau Community College and Western New England
University, and by Teaching Open Source, a member project of the
Software Freedom Conservancy. Corporations such as Red Hat and
Google provide support through Teaching Open Source and their
participation in POSSE workshops, which are co-taught by members of
the academic and open source communities.
The instructors who are honored have demonstrated their
commitment to teaching open source through a range of
contributions, including: creating open source programs and courses
at their institution; contributing materials to the growing open
source curriculum base; or speaking about teaching open source at
conferences like the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing
and the SIGCSE (Special Interest Group on Computer Science
Education) Technical Symposium.
This year’s list of instructors leading the way in teaching open
source are:
- Aria Chernik, lecturing fellow, Social
Science Research Institute, and director, Open Source Pedagogy,
Research and Innovation (OSPRI), Duke University
- Joshua Dehlinger, assistant/associate
professor, Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Towson
University
- Robert Duvall, lecturer, Department of
Computer Science, Duke University
- Joshua Pearce, professor, Department of
Materials Science and Engineering; professor, Department of
Electrical and Computer Engineering; and advisor, Open Source
Hardware Enterprise, Michigan Technological University
- Alan Rea, professor, business
information systems, Haworth College of Business, Western Michigan
University
- Wes Turner, senior lecturer, computer
science, School of Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- Stewart Weiss, associate professor,
Department of Computer Science, Hunter College of the City
University of New York
- Sabine Wojcieszak, lecturer, University
of Applied Science Kiel
The efforts of these instructors both to integrate open source
into their classrooms and to grow a community of like-minded
educators are making a difference in the lives of students and
making the world a more open and collaborative place.
Supporting Quote
Gina Likins, university outreach, Open Source and Standards, Red
Hat“As more organizations use and develop open source technology,
the need for graduates skilled in open source grows. Red Hat is
proud to recognize educators who embrace the open source way and
are committed to teaching the next generation about the potential
of a career in open source. These educators are helping to pave the
way for their students’ success and for other instructors who can
benefit from the resources they create.”
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