Industry Perspective: Accelerate Education With Open Source
Cloud Techs  Government Technology, 2/26/13  By David Egts,
principal architect for the U.S. Public Sector at Red Hat
Distance learning is more popular than ever, and the reasons are
many: Students can work full-time while taking classes that fit
their schedules; educators are no longer constrained by the
economics of the physical classroom—one professor can teach
thousands of students simultaneously, or alternatively teach
exotic, “long tail” subjects that wouldn’t be sustainable at a
single university's campus; and holding classes virtually is
significantly less expensive.  Though distance learning has made
significant strides over the years, there's still room for
improvement—and that's where open source Platform-as-a-Service
(PaaS) can help.