OpenOffice vs. LibreOffice: What’s the Difference and Which Should You Use?

OpenOffice.org was once the open-source office suite of choice, but it fractured into two separate projects — Apache OpenOffice and LibreOffice. Never mind Oracle Open Office, which was actually a closed-source office suite and was discontinued.

It doesn’t really matter whether you use LibreOffice or Apache OpenOffice. Both are good choices if you’re looking for a powerfulfree office suite. The two projects are so similar that you’d be unlikely to notice the difference.

We’d recommend LibreOffice if we had to choose one of the two. It’s seen the most enthusiastic development and has the most potential in the long run.

 

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Bernard Bull: Infographic of Building an Online Personal Teaching Network

Bernard Bull: Recently, I wrote an article about how to build an online personal teaching network, re-imagining opportunities to teach in the digital world and thinking about the role of teacher as independent contractor.

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Inequality – measurement, trends, impacts, and policies

Many low- and middle-income countries are achieving good rates of economic growth, but high inequality remains a priority concern. Some countries meanwhile have low growth, high inequality, and pervasive poverty―often linked to their fragility. There is now an active debate on whether countries should set themselves goals for not only achieving absolute poverty reduction, but also lower inequality. But policy action needs to be better served by analysis and data.

The UNU-WIDER Development Conference ‘Inequality – measurement, trends, impact, and policies’ focuses in exploring the latest developments in the measurement of inequality in income, wealth, and human development, drawing also on advances in measurements in the advanced economies. It will also examine what we know about trends in inequality and discuss the impact of inequality on development, and the impact of development on inequality. And as the global development debate moves from the Millennium Development Goals to the post-2015 development agenda, the conference will draw out the implications of inequality for development policy and poverty reduction.

 

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Half an Hour: Connectivism as Learning Theory

A connectivist view of the world is very different from one found in other theories.
For example, to the question what is knowledge a connectivist will talk about the capacity of a network to recognize phenomena based on partial information, a common property of neural networks.
Connectivism proposes therefore what might be called 'direct knowledge', following the work of people such as J.J. Gibson. This is very different from what might be called 'indirect knowledge', which is based on the creation of models or representations using an internal (and possible innate) language or logic.

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Mike Feerick – ‘The Future of the University’, Smart People, Smart Economy

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ALISON CEO and Founder Mike Feerick spoke on his ideas about how online learning is influencing universities at the US Embassy’s conference, ‘Smart People, Smart Economy’ in Dublin on April 3rd 2014. Watch Mike’s session to find out how universities can meet the needs of future students by focusing on popular aspects of MOOCs such […]

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Private Equity Lifts Half Of African Countries To Middle-Income Status

Half of African countries (27) are now classified by the World Bank as middle-income countries (RT @FaneleLove: Private Equity Lifts Half Of African Countries To Middle-Income Status http://t.co/v4S3bsxqK3...

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6 Emerging Trends in Education and Mobile Learning

At the UNESCO Mobile Learning Week 2014 I sat on a panel titled Emerging Trends and New Technology – considered in the context of mobile learning. Below are the notes of the key points that I made. Note: The issue of Emerging Trends and New Technology begs the question: for who? For students in California,…

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Left to Their Own Smart Devices

Educational institutions should enter the mobile age and embrace the opportunity to be more effective, efficient, and cost sensitive than ever before. The challenge, like with any disruption, is to rethink the system design and utilize new concepts, such as multi-persona, that align with this new age of mobility. Exciting times are ahead for educators.

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