{"id":6,"date":"2013-12-29T13:10:43","date_gmt":"2013-12-29T13:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/impedagogy.com\/wp\/?p=6"},"modified":"2013-12-29T14:58:08","modified_gmt":"2013-12-29T14:58:08","slug":"open-academy-and-kde-and-the-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impedagogy.com\/wp\/blog\/2013\/12\/29\/open-academy-and-kde-and-the-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Academy and KDE and the University"},"content":{"rendered":"

MoRpHeUz’s Blog \u00bb Open Academy and KDE<\/a><\/p>\n

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To help bridge this gap between school and industry, last spring Facebook teamed up with Jay Borenstein,\u00a0a computer science professor\u00a0at Stanford, to launch Open Academy. Open Academy is a program designed to provide a practical, applied software engineering experience as part of a university student\u2019s CS education. The program works\u00a0closely with key faculty members at top CS universities to\u00a0launch\u00a0a course that matches students with active open source projects and mentors and allows them to receive academic credit for their contributions to the open source code base<\/div>\n
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I don’t know whether this is a very specific partnership that only works with CS and open source mentorships, but I am a bit worried that what we are seeing is the ‘farm team’-ization of the university where ‘real life’ in general and the corporations specifically are mining the universities for the best and screw the rest. On the other hand I can see where being immersed in open source projects under the stewardship of someone who is connected is well worth doing.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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In a nutshell, the program <\/a>works like this:<\/p>\n