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Open Source University /
Red Hat Academy
June 10, 2008
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Worldwide stand alone open source software
revenue is projected to reach $5.8 billion by 2011
(IDC, 2007)
The number of OSS projects has increased from
16,249 in 2001 to 150,681 in 2007 (SourceForge.net)
IDC, Worldwide Open Source Software Business Models 2007-2011 Forecast : A
Preliminary View, Doc #206681, May 2007
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Open source is climbing the stack
Source: Gartner Symposium/ITxpo, Fall 2007,
“Open Source and Open Standards: Taking a Closer Look,” Andrea DiMaio
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Red Hat contributions to open
source
Red Hat is the leading
contributor to Linux
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OSS in Universities
What schools/universities are doing?
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57% use open source infrastructure software (including OS and DB).
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34% implemented OSS (including course management systems & portals).
http://insidehighered.com/news/2006/03/01/open
OpenCourseWare – MIT OCW used by over 300 world class universities,
has over 2000 online courses and gets in excess of a million hits a day.
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LMS
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Open Source LMS' becoming campus
standard.
Moodle used by 7.8% institutions as
campus standard LMS.
Sakai used by 3%
http://www.campuscomputing.net/survey-summary/2007-campus-computing-survey
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OSS in Universities –
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Interesting Case Studies
Carnegie Mellon folds Open Source Into New Degree Offering
http://www.iosn.net/foss/news/carnegie­mellon­folds­open­source­into­new­degree­offering 
NC State University – Leader in OSS education and research.
OSS Development Wiki Page (http://aramis.csc.ncsu.edu/csc591w/doku.php)
Open Source Community page ­ (https://opensource.ncsu.edu/) 
Oregon State University ­ Has a Course in Open Source Development and an Open Source Education Lab ­ (http://web.engr.oregonstate.edu/~budd/419/)
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Seneca College ­ Organizes Seneca Free Software and Open Source Symposium, which has grown into a two­day event attracting participants from across North America. http://zenit.senecac.on.ca/wiki/index.php/Main_Page) 
Trinity College, Wesleyan University, and Connecticut College ­ Running “The Humanitarian Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) Project” (http://www.hfoss.org/) 6
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Red Hat Academy / Open Source
University Program Goals
To enable thousands of colleges and universities around the
world to teach open source principles, programming
and system administration to hundreds of thousands of
students
To create communities of participating schools, instructors,
students paired OSS community to learn from each other,
to develop open source curricula and to contribute to OSS
projects
To make available high quality Red Hat courseware and a
scalable, open platform for hosting and managing OSS
courses
To make the combined program self-funding, but not to
maximize profitability for Red Hat
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What We Believe (Most) Schools
Want
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High quality course materials and labs
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Accreditations/certifications that will make their students
marketable upon graduation
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Curricula that will attract students to their school
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Opportunities for communities to share ideas with other
educators and in our case with the OSS community
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Access to potential corporate and government grants
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The program to be either free or heavily subsidized
Red Hat Academy 2.0 will deliver on all these and more!!!
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Overview of Red Hat Training and
Certification
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Red Hat training and certification is a $50M
annual business
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32,000 RHCEs and 23,000 RHCTs spread across
150 countries
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Open enrollment schedule in 40+ countries
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Comprehensive Linux and JBoss curricula of 30+
courses, most are 4 day
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Recognized leader in performance based
certification testing
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Designated by IDC in leader quadrant in
December 2007, ranked ahead of M$ and many
others
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Red Hat's Academic Programs
Today
Red Hat Academy
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Enables colleges and universities to deliver Red Hat's RHCE
track courses to students.
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Includes comprehensive XML courses and labs along with
innovative lab checking and student management utilities
Red Hat Enterprise Linux - Academic Editions
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Campus-wide subscriptions provide all departments of your
campus or multi-campus system access to Red Hat
Enterprise Linux Academic Desktop and Server editions.
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Campus-wide subscription prices begin at $11,500 (for US
and Canadian customers only). Department-wide
subscriptions are also available.
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Red Hat Academy 2.0
Two Program Options For Schools
Red Hat - Open Source
University (OSU)
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Free program for both
students and schools
Includes “entry level RHCT
and basic Java and JBoss
administration
Open source courses/curricula
developed by participating
schools
Does not include exams or
instructor training
Red Hat Academy (OSU plus):
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Expanded curriculum: RHCE +
more JBoss + Linux Dev
Includes instructor training (2)
Includes 50 exam vouchers (paid
by school)
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Customer support by phone
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Sample NA/EMEA price structure:
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$20,000/school or
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$200/class/student
Limited support
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OSU / RHA Program Comparison
Open Source
University
Linux Courses
RHCA
RHCE
RHCT
Basic OSS Dev
Advanced Linux Dev
JBoss Courses
Other JBoss
JB336
Basic Java
Delivery
Instructor led
Elearning option
Auto lab checking
RH instructor videos
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N
Y
Y
N
N
Y
Open Source
Red Hat
Academy
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Y
Y
Y
Y
N
Y
Open Source
Y
Y
N
N
N
Y
Y
Y – when created
Open Source
University
Red Hat
Academy
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N
N
N
Some included
50% off more
TBD
Y
N
Y
Y
Support
Phone support (12X5)
Email support
RHEL Entitlements
N
Y
Not included
Instructor training
Not included
Y
Y
50 RHEL
2 free training
subsciptions
Program Cost**
Discounted RHEL Site
Subscription
$0
$20,000
N
Y
Certification
School proctored
Exam vouchers
RH proctored onsite
Translation
By schools/regions
By Red Hat
** Actual prices will be set per country/region
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Which Program Is Right For Your
School?
Open Source University
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Best suited for:
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Teaching basic Linux
development and
administration skills
Small expected numbers of
students (<30 students)
Red Hat Academy
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Best suited for:
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Self-sufficient faculty
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Teaching more in depth Linux
administration and Linux
programming
Schools wanting to include
and market RHCE certification
as part of the program
Programs with more than 3040 students annually
Schools wanting a higher
degree of program support
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How Red Hat Academy Works
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Red Hat Academy offers the only 100% fully web
deployed & managed curriculum program that creates
proven competencies from hands-on, performancebased testing and assessments.
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Technology overview
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RHA is an open source platform that provides a turnkey program for students and instructors including all
labs and automated grading and reporting
Course materials all hosted on the RHA platform at
the school in XML format.
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Performance Based Assessment
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Each course has 10-12 workbooks and each workbook contains a variety of
lessons, each followed by live-system lab tests which provide both student and
teacher with a definitive measurement of the student's competency before
proceeding to the next workbook.
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Such competency measurements accompany traditional cognitive pre-tests,
exercises, and final exams to measure overall curriculum knowledge and
understanding. With each course designed for demonstrating competency
throughout the instruction, students are provided the best Linux education and
preparation possible.
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Curriculum Outline
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RHA 030 Red Hat Linux Computing Essentials - Students will learn to be
effective users of Linux systems, acquiring skills and understanding of
command line functions, file systems, users and groups, bash shell, process
management...
RHA 130 Red Hat Linux Core System Administration - Students will learn
to be effective administrators of Linux systems, mastering tasks such as
hardware and device configuration, file system management, user
administration, network configurations, kernel services...
RHA 230 Red Hat Linux Network Applications - Students learn to deploy
and administer the core networking services which have made Red Hat
Enterprise Linux popular, including the Apache Web Server, the Samba File
Server, BIND...
RHA 250 Red Hat Linux Security Administration - Students learn to
implement and administer basic security policies relating to user
authentication (including PAM and NIS) and securing network applications
using application level access control and kernel level firewalling (ipchains),
SELinux, system monitoring, and implementing common encryption protocols
including PKI...
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Program Mechanics
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RHA 030 & RHA 130 each comprise of over 80 contact hours of workbooks,
lessons, discussion material, exercises, assessments, class management tools and
live lab exams. Either course may be taught individually, over a minimum of 8
weeks, or sequentially for over at least 16 weeks.
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RHA 230 & RHA 250 each comprise of over 40 contact hours of workbooks,
lessons, discussion material, exercises, assessments, class management tools and
live lab exams. Either course may be taught individually, over a minimum of 4
weeks, or sequentially for over at least 8 weeks.
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You may also teach any course as frequently as you wish during the subscription
period.
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The courses are ideally designed for instructor-led classes in a computer lab each computer will use the latest version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux as provided
with your subscription; however, you may also choose a hybrid of student selfstudy with lab time - you decide on your preferred teaching method.
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There are no textbooks since the curriculum is fully web hosted, delivered and
managed by Red Hat; each student and instructor may print one copy of the
material
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Accreditation/Certification
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End-of-class assessment
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All courses include an extensive series of exercises that can be
used for grading.
Courses also include end-of-class exams
Certification
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The RHA materials prepare students to two of Red Hat's
certification exams and become Red Hat Certified Technicians
(RHCTs) or Red Hat Certified Engineers (RHCEs). Two options:
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Red Hat Academies receive 50 exam vouchers for students at
more than half off the exam list price. These vouchers can be
redeemed by the student by registering to attend any of the
hundreds of the open enrollment sessions scheduled around the
world.
Red Hat Open Source University students are similarly
eligible to sit for exams but would be responsible for paying
their own exam fees
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Getting Started
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Signing Up
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Universities interested in signing up for the program can register
by going to the following link:
http://www.redhat.com/solutions/education/academy/subscribe/
Instructor Training
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Both programs require that instructors be accredited to teach the
course material.
Red Hat Academies – training for up to two instructors to
become RHCTs or RHCEs (their choice) is included in the program
fee. Prospective instructors can attend any RHCE level open
enrollment course or take the training via Red Hat's new Virtual
Classroom option
Red Hat Open Source Universities – If the instructors are not
already RHCT/RHCEs the schools/instructors pay for training
separately.
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More Details
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OSS Course Development
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For RHA 2.0 Red Hat will help foster open source course
development:
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Red Hat plans to open source the RHA platform
Red Hat will be seeking alignment with the OpenSourceware
Consortium
Red Hat will be working with universities to promote open
source course development – Red Hat will review, endorse
and publish to Open Source University
Encourage schools (and provide direction how) to participate
in OSS projects
Consolidate Fedora University's open source development
course
Create communites for students, instructors and participating
institutions
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Communities – The Value Add
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Individual Courses:
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Facilitates learning community within a course
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Instructor created and moderated
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The only source for RH approved curriculum
OSS Community:
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Facilitates the general community interested in open source software
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Open to all participants in OSU as contributers.
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Moderated by RH and the OSU Community
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Life time membership to anyone completing the RH130 level course
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Links community members and employeers
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Communities – The Value Add
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OSU Instructors Community: ●
Facilitates instructor and curriculum develop for OSU.
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Open to all current OSU registered instructors
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Moderated by RH and OSU Instructors community. ●
Has two components:
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Curriculum Community (subset of Instructor Community)
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Curriculum content is eligible for inclusion into approved RH curriculum with contributer recognition and awards.
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Communities – The Value Add
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Open Source Projects: ●
Facilitates collaboration on open source software development ●
Open to all OSU community participants as contributors.
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Any contributor can start a project and the community can participate with the project creators approval
Any participant that completes the OSU RH130 level course curriculum has lifetime access to this community
This is an important resource for RH staff to start projects of interest to RH and gain global academic community support. This community will also encourages the Fedora Project.
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Red Hat Academy Screen Shots
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Administrator
view
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Instructor view
of student
progress
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Post­lesson
assessment
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Student exercise
­ to be completed
on their system
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