Summary: This paper will discuss the influence that open source is creating in education in our present global times, and how it’s shaping public policy in education today. Making a related observation, to why education needs to lean to a more innovated knowledge base system than to a standardized base system. Furthermore, this will bring a new set of global challenges at the economic, social, technological, cultural, and political levels; which open sources in education present a great opportunity to engage on the search for solutions of those challenges.