LXer: Education for the real world: Open course on open source noSQL databases
 

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Back in March of this year, the University of Albany Student Chapter of the American Society for Information Science [he]amp[/he] Technology (ASIS[he]amp[/he]T) organized its second Open Source Festival. The event brought together enthusiasts of open source from industry, government, and academia in the New York-Albany area. There, I shared my experience of teaching an open source class at RPI and the work that OSEHRA was doing on further promoting the use of open source software in healthcare. Among other topics of discussion was the need to educate college students on the basic concepts of NoSQL databases.

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