10 Aug 2005 16:56
Re: FOSS study in education
Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay <sankarshan.mukhopadhyay <at> gmail.com>
2005-08-10 14:56:32 GMT
2005-08-10 14:56:32 GMT
Claus Schwarm wrote: > I stumbled over an article [1] written by Samps Okholm from Grant High > School in Mt. Gambier, South Australia. He writes: > > "Studies we carried out [...] showed that users' preference for > applications to do specific tasks, is closely related to when in their > education they were introduced to the applications. >From the standpoint of another *informal* study conducted by me on students who are involved in writing out theses, I would concur. Swapping of MS-Office with OO.o 1.1.x produced disastrous results from both sides. At that point of time I tended to dismiss it off as conditioning which was anyway not completely cohesive as an argument since both sample groups used MS-Office at some point in their careers. Would love to see a proper study being conducted on this. Regards Sankarshan -- -- You see things; and you say 'Why?'; But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?' - George Bernard Shaw
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