Use of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) in content creation

Abstract

Information and communication Technology (ICT) has become a powerful tool and medium for anyone to use, explore and get benefitted from. It provides immense opportunities for teachers, students and the field of education to use the available digital resources for teaching and learning. It also opens up a window for using the ICT to create and contribute the educational resources for the masses. Browsing through Google for searching any content is familiar to everyone today but awareness towards creating educational content/ resource is limited. Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) gives a platform to explore the software/ tools and use them for various purposes. It allows for active engagement of teaching learning fraternity. FOSS provides the freedom to use and make changes to the software itself by making required changes in the source code. This paper deals with the understanding of the FOSS, uses of FOSS for education and understanding of some of the tools available for content creation.