The price of free software: Labor, ethics, and context in distance education

Computers and Composition

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 68-90

  Reilly, Colleen A ^a   Williams, Joseph John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA WILMINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Blackboard; Content management systems (CMS); Distance learning; Drupal; Ethics; Labor issues; Open source software (OSS); Plone; Sakai; WebCT

Indexed keywords

EID: 32144439685     PISSN: 87554615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compcom.2005.12.001     Document Type: Article

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