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The education secretariat of Parana developed a web portal using F/LOSS and this system was also released as F/LOSS. This web portal was in Portuguese language. This system enables the educators from public sector to work together and develop course contents for different fields. In 2006, it had over 300 materials published for education sector. This web portal doesn’t only help the education sector in Brazil, but for all the people who understand Portuguese. It has a great hand in contributing to Portuguese contents on the internet (Apikul, 2006). This system offers educators an environment where they can effectively collaborate and develop course content. Before publishing the materials, to maintain quality, it is checked by another team of experts. This way not only the knowledge is shared among the educators but also the experience.  The web portal works on low speed internet connection. There is an offline version of this system available as well so that even people who ...

Istituto Statale di Istruzione Superiore J.M. Keynes (ISISJMKeynes) School, Italy in late 1990s’ implemented the F/LOSS based ICT and the decision making body for this was composed of teachers, students, parents as well as the non teaching staffs. ISISJMKeynes School after implementing F/LOSS not only witnessed the reduced cost but they also experienced the application customisation based on their specific educative needs.  The user’s contribution to F/LOSS has made them work alongside with the developers and has also strengthened the relationship between the users themselves, i.e. the relationship between students and students, teachers and teachers and more importantly the relationship between teachers and students. The F/LOSS based ICT has helped the school promote better and interactive learning environment (Lin and Zini, 2008). Along with F/LOSS ICT, the use of open content was also engaged for the daily educative purposes (Lin and Zini, 2008). Open content is a continuou...

Every organisation needs change in order to survive in the long run. Change always occurs in the organisation because change is essential. (Fay and Luhrmann, 2004) The process of change is complicated and can have a great effect on the employees of an organisation. Change has to be managed and controlled. It leads the organisation to improve their effectiveness. (Hayes, 2007) The leader must have the ability to identify, analyze and develop the firm’s capacity for change which is one of the most important and difficult aspects of change. (Judge and Douglas, 2009) One of the common definition for change management is ’a set of processes that is employed to ensure that significant changes are implemented in an orderly, controlled and systematic fashion to effect organizational change.’ (techFAQ, n.d.) The University had introduced the IT Service Management course and was successful in attracting many students. Both online and traditional classroom course has been run effectively and t...