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→Mike LeVan talks about "Developing a Linux Administration Course for Beginners"
In order to assess a student’s progress the standard tests, quizzes and labs are great but Mike mentions a few other schemes. In one, he comes in before the class arrives and “breaks” their systems by running a script. When the students arrive and discover the bugs they are then challenged to try and repair the damage. This is a great way to give students a real life situation and in some cases Mike doesn’t allow any books or network so that the student must rely on their knowledge of Linux to solve the issues.
Concluding his talk Mike shows us [http://linux-classroom.info linux-classroom (not live yet)] which is a site he is working on to create an online textbook with modules for teaching this course. It is based on Moodle and has lab assignments and scripts already, hopefully soon it will be live and educators can benefit from his work.
====Mark Surman talk about "Open Sourcing Education in South Africa"====
