Linux a go go .......

Well, twelve weeks, 467 students start, 457 students complete, 340 students submit final assessments (75%). In Open University course terms is a very good course for recruitment and retention on a first, or that fact any presentation.

The course team ... See http://twitpic.com/25js3k had a little celebration, the one without the Ubuntu tshirt was given one and forget to bring it.

From left to right we have ...

Kevin Large : course external technical consultant and author
Andrew Smith : course chair and author
Nicky Moss : critical reader
Deirdre Bethune : course manager, herder of course chair and authors
Ian Cameron : course internal technical consultant and author

Looking forward to doing the marking co-ordination and marking over the next couple of weeks, then onto the next presentation in October.

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