Ken Gilmour wrote:
>On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 13:05:23 +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote:
>>>>On Wednesday 11 February 2004 12:19, Martin Duffy wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>Some area's I would suggest of focus would be:
>>>>>>>>>1. Linux ECDL
>>>>>>>>>>>What is ECDL?
>>>>>>>A training program for Microsoft office etc. Sounds like a good idea
>to me but wouldn't Linus himself, and the rest of the Linux community
>(at least European Wide) have to agree on the material that would
>be taught for this?
>>>>hmm.. need to check for definite, but my understanding is that the ECDL
only specifies particular
technologies to learn (spreadsheets, etc).
There's no fundamental difference for example from doing it on Windows
with Openoffice.org
etc. The only stumbling block that I was aware of was the lack of an
open Access alike, and probably
some books on using StarWriter for the word processing module etc..
Anyway, it has been discussed here before, and probably on education@ too
L.
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