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Free Software at School and the Educational Process: Current State, Systematization of Typical Problems

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Software Engineering Application in Informatics (CoMeSySo 2021)

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The article presents the genesis of the problem of using free software in a Russian general education school, reveals a range of problems that educational institutions face when using (choosing) free software. The authors describe the general set of problems characteristic of the migration process to free software, and also consider in detail the relevance of each of them in relation to the field of education in the Russian Federation over the past 12 years, starting in 2008, when the first attempt was made to translate the educational process general education Russian school for free software. The article also provides possible solutions to some of the identified problems and examples of their implementation .

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  1. Russian State Social University, Moscow, Russia

    Alexander Fedosov

  2. School 1352, Moscow, Russia

    Mikhail Markushevich

  3. Basalt SPO” Company, Moscow, Russia

    Tatiana Gubina

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  1. Faculty of Applied Informatics, Tomas Bata University in Zlín, Zlín, Czech Republic

    Radek Silhavy

  2. Faculty of Applied Informatics, Tomas Bata University in Zlín, Zlín, Czech Republic

    Petr Silhavy

  3. Faculty of Applied Informatics, Tomas Bata University in Zlín, Zlín, Czech Republic

    Zdenka Prokopova

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Fedosov, A., Markushevich, M., Gubina, T. (2021). Free Software at School and the Educational Process: Current State, Systematization of Typical Problems. In: Silhavy, R., Silhavy, P., Prokopova, Z. (eds) Software Engineering Application in Informatics. CoMeSySo 2021. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 232. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-90318-3_19

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