Dick Moore - Introduction - In-source, out-source, open-source, right-source 1.1 2007/07/27 09:04:53.832 GMT-5 2007/07/30 07:45:25.355 GMT-5 Ken Udas keu10@psu.edu Cecelia Merkel cbm12@psu.edu Dick Moore learndirect Open Educational Resources (OER) Open Source Software (OSS), OSS and OER in Education Series UK 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.

Dick Moore - Introduction

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.