Open source software encourages learning, the exchange of knowledge and information, and project improvements that rely as much on its users, and its developers' colleagues, as it does the developer. It's not unlike education. Ideally, learning is a continuous cycle of taking in, processing, and giving back, with modifications.
It's puzzling, then, that the adoption of open source software has been relatively slow, even in higher education. However, according to The Chronicle of Higher Education, open source course management software is starting to gain a foothold.
