As costs around the world continue to rise for education, institutions must become innovative in the ways they teach and grow students. To do this effectively professors and administrative staff should push toward the utilization of Open Software (OSS) and virtual tools to enhance or supplement currently available tools. In developing countries OSS applications would allow students the ability to learn critical technological skills for success at small fraction of the cost. OSS also provides faculty members the ability to dissect source code and prepare students for low level software development. It is critical that all institutions look at alternatives in providing training and delivering educational material regardless of limitations going forward as the world continues to be more global due to the increased use of technologies everywhere. Doing this could provide a means of shortening the education gap in many countries. Through reviewing the available technology, possible implementations of these technologies, and the application of these items in graduate coursework could provide a starting point in integrating these tools into academia. When administrators or faculty debate the possibilities of OSS, gaming, and simulation tools this applied research provides a guide for changing the ability to develop students that will be competitive on a global level.

1. INNOVATION IN
CS/IT VIA OPEN
SOURCE
SOFTWARE
MAURICE DAWSON, DCS, MBA, MS
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
ALABAMA A&M UNIVERSITY
COLLEGE OF BUSINESS & PUBLIC AFFAIRS

2. • Assistant Professor of MIS at
Alabama A&M University
• Editor-in-chief of the Journal
of Information Systems &
Technology Planning (JISTP)
• International Advisory Board
of the Indian Journal of
Commerce & Management
Studies
• Book chapter author for
Gaming & Simulation in
Higher Education
• Encyclopedia chapter author
for the Encyclopedia of
Information Science &
Technology
• Over 25 peer reviewed
journal articles and 65 peer
reviewed proceedings
published
WHO AM I
Colorado Tech Degrees
• Master of Business
Administration in 2010
• Doctor of Computer
Science in 2009
• Master of Science in
Management in 2006

3. REASONS TO BE
PROUD OF YOUR
DOCTORAL
PROGRAM
COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING & COMPUTER
SCIENCE BACKGROUND INFORMATION

4. CARNEGIE FOUNDATION
– UNIVERSITY
CLASSIFICATION

5. NSA CENTERS OF
ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE
INSTITUTIONS

6. TOPICS
Linux & Open Source Applications
Open Source Technologies
Research, Service, & Teaching
Research Tools

7. PRESENTATION
OVERVIEW
As costs around the world continue to rise for education, institutions must
become innovative in the ways they teach and grow students. To do this
effectively professors and administrative staff should push toward the
utilization of Open Software (OSS) and virtual tools to enhance or
supplement currently available tools. In developing countries OSS
applications would allow students the ability to learn critical technological
skills for success at small fraction of the cost. OSS also provides faculty
members the ability to dissect source code and prepare students for low level
software development. It is critical that all institutions look at alternatives in
providing training and delivering educational material regardless of limitations
going forward as the world continues to be more global due to the increased
use of technologies everywhere. Doing this could provide a means of
shortening the education gap in many countries. Through reviewing the
available technology, possible implementations of these technologies, and
the application of these items in graduate coursework could provide a starting
point in integrating these tools into academia. When administrators or faculty
debate the possibilities of OSS, gaming, and simulation tools this applied
research provides a guide for changing the ability to develop students that
will be competitive on a global level.

8. LINUX & OPEN SOURCE
APPLICATIONS

9. OPEN SOURCE
SOFTWARE DEFINED

10. BEFORE LINUX
In 80’s, Microsoft’s DOS was the dominated OS for PC
Apple MAC was better, but expensive
UNIX was much better, but much, much more expensive. Only for
minicomputer for commercial applications
People was looking for a UNIX based system, which is cheaper
and can run on PC
Both DOS, MAC and UNIX were proprietary, i.e., the source code
of their kernel is protected
No modification is possible without paying high license fees

11. Established in 1984 by Richard
Stallman, who believes that
software should be free from
restrictions against copying or
modification in order to make
better and efficient computer
programs
GNU PROJECT

12. BEGINNING OF LINUX
A famous professor Andrew Tanenbaum developed Minix, a
simplified version of UNIX that runs on PC
Minix is for class teaching only. No intention for commercial use
In Sept 1991, Linus Torvalds, a second year student of Computer
Science at the University of Helsinki, developed the preliminary
kernel of Linux, known as Linux version 0.0.1

13. • Over 400 Linux OS
available!
• Popular distros are Ubuntu,
Fedora, Red Hat, SuSE, Puppy
Linux, Damn Small Linux
• Distrowatch List
• Approximately 29 million people
are Linux users worldwide
LINUX BASED
OPERATING SYSTEMS

14. FEDORA

15. FEDORA SPINS

16. GENTOO LINUX

17. PUPPY LINUX

18. DAMN SMALL LINUX

19. UBUNTU FOR
DEVICES

20. UBUNTU & FEDORA
LIVE DISK DEMO

21. EDUBUNTU DEMO

22. OPEN SUSE DEMO

23. NETWORK BASED
OPERATING SYSTEMS

24. UBUNTU SERVER

25. CENTOS DEMO

26. BACKTRACK &
BLACKBUNTU

27. OPEN SOURCE
APPLICATION
REPOSITORIES
OSALT
Open Source an
Alternative (OSALT)
has 100's of open
source replacements
for popular software
such as Adobe
Photoshop, IBM
Rational Rose,
Microsoft Project,
Microsoft Office, and
many more.
SOURCEFORGE
Sourceforge has over
300,000 active OSS
projects.

28. OSALT

29. SOURCEFORGE

30. VIRTUALIZATION

31. VIRTUALIZATION
DEMO

32. OPEN SOURCE
TECHNOLOGIES

33. RASPBERRY PI

34. OUYA

35. RESEARCH, SERVICE,
& TEACHING

36. JOURNAL QUALITY
LIST [HARZING]

37. ACADEMIC
CONFERENCES
WORLDWIDE

38. COMMON GROUND
PUBLISHERS

39. IGI GLOBAL
PUBLISHERS

40. MDPI - OPEN ACCESS
PUBLISHING
OPPORTUNITIES

41. INDERSCIENCE
PUBLISHERS

42. SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH
PUBLISHING OPEN
ACCESS JOURNALS

43. MULTI-SCIENCE
PUBLISHERS

44. INTELLECTBASE
INTERNATIONAL
CONSORTIUM

45. INTECHOPEN.COM (FREE
ACCESS TO SCIENTIFIC
RESEARCH)

46. SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH:
PRINCIPLES, METHODS, AND
PRACTICES

47. RESEARCH TOOLS

48. DATA VISUALIZATION

49. THE QUALITATIVE DATA
ANALYSIS PROGRAM

50. THE OPEN GRAPH VIZ
PLATFORM

51. SCIPLORE
MINDMAPPING

52. DOCEAR - THE
ACADEMIC LITERATURE
SUITE

53. ZOTERO

54. HARZING ACADEMIC
SOFTWARE

55. SOFA STATISTICS

56. GNU PSPP

57. PLAYONLINUX

58. View all URLs at http://itsmyurls.com/drdawson
ALABAMA A&M UNIVERSITY PROFILE
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