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Dick Moore - Introduction - In-source, out-source, open-source, right-source

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Summary: Introduction to Dick Moore's contribution to the OSS and OER in Education Series. In this post, he share his experiences during the past 5 years at learndirect, during which time they have strategically adopted a range of open source tools and platforms that have helped transform Service and reduce operational costs. His posting will look at some of those tools, decisions and their service impact.

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Dick Moore serves as Director of Technology at Ufi, where he looks after four teams that design, build and maintain learndirect’s IT infrastructure. The concept of a ‘University for Industry’ led to the creation of Ufi, which in turn serves as an umbrella organization supporting learndirect. Learndirect is the world’s largest publicly funded e-learning platform with in excess of 2.5 million learners.

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