• The entire US public school system was taken over by Google, Microsoft and Apple.
  • Schools have good intentions but cannot spend a lot of time to adapt, thus prioritizing short-term/quick solutions.
  • Some examples of using #freeSoftware in schools.

“My sister’s university is subscribed to the educational suites of both Microsoft and Google. Lectures are delivered on Microsoft Teams”

  • geopoliticssuck@lemmy.ml
    10·
    3 years ago

    My university is going to set up a Mattermost service because every major and student club is using Discord, even some classes are using it, which is a shame. What also really bothers me is that since the crisis began a year ago, we’re still using Blackboard Collaborate which is proprietary, I don’t see why we don’t use BigBlueButton

  • ree@lemmy.ml
    10·
    3 years ago

    The university I work at was full Foss until 3 years ago. I liked that plus it is literally called “université libre”.

    Last week they forced the last of us from their email to outlook.

    It was cheaper to go full Micro$hit than to scale the email service.

    Owncloud is still running but good luck getting someone to use it when they have that sweet sweet onedrive integration …

    You need leadership that understand the long term impact of those issues over the yearly bill.