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The most recent volume of Innovate is focused on open source software (OSS) in the educational realm.  This journal issue is located at http://www.innovateonline.info/index.php?view=issue&id=16 and there are a number of key articles that are important to read.  In particular the notion of open source knowledge communities  discussed in “Open Source/Open Course Learning: Lessons for Educators from Free and Open Source Software” by Robert Stephenson is an article that needs to be carefully considered.  What Stephenson leaves out is the growing trend for open course content where entire courses are made available on line such as at Yale and MIT.  You combine that open content with open courses and you have a much different approach to education and, frankly, I think better approach to education.