PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS OF OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE'S AND WEB 2.0 TOOLS IN TEACHING AND LEARNING PROCESS

The present papers summarises the actual applications of open source software’s and web 2.0 tools in teaching & learning process at SHPT school of library science. Such applications can be implanted by any other faculty of arts, commerce, science etc for their teaching & learning purpose. In case of Open Source software, the Zotero and in case of Web 2.0 tools, the Wikispaces are explained in connections with how these can be used in giving assignments to the students. There are other open source software’s included in the paper such as open office and web 2.0 tools such as social networking sites, how they can be a platform of communication among the students and professional community.

Keywords

Open source software's, web 2.0 tools, Wikispaces, Google docs, open office, social networking, facebook,

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