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UberStudent is a free and open-source computer operating system and collection of programs for everyone, especially higher education and secondary students, their teachers and schools, as well as researchers, knowledge workers, and lifelong learners. Dubbing itself "Linux for Learners", UberStudent describes itself as "a cohesive academic success curriculum integrated into an installable, easy-to-use, and full-featured learning platform" aimed at increasing overall student learning and academic computer literacy, and lifelong computer fluency. Its additional aim is to increase the adoption of free and open-source computing platforms, like itself, within higher education and secondary schools.〔"Unique Linux Distro Geared to Impact Higher Education, Student Success." ''EFYTimes'', 30 July 2010. Available at http://www.efytimes.com/e1/48950/fullnews.htm ((Archived on retrieval date by WebCite) ).〕 It is designed around a "core academic skills approach to student success," which it describes as "the research and writing, reading, studying, and self-management skills that are essential to all students regardless of their academic major."〔http://uberstudent.com/about〕〔http://uberstudent.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=740〕 UberStudent has been described by reviewers as "highly in tune with student needs",〔Wallen, Jack. "Uberstudent: The students’ Linux," 9 August 2010. Available at http://www.ghacks.net/2010/08/09/uberstudent-the-students-linux/ ((Archived on retrieval date by WebCite) )〕 "loaded with student-friendly tools and customizations",〔Purdy, Kevin. "UberStudent Is an Ubuntu System Custom-Built for Students," ''Lifehacker,'' 20 September 2010. Available at http://lifehacker.com/5642659/uberstudent-is-an-ubuntu-system-custom+built-for-studenst ((Archived on retrieval date by WebCite) ).〕 "perfect for the higher education environment", 〔〔Kafle, Sudip. "Uberstudent—A Linux Distribution for Students," 21 September 2010. Available at http://technott.com/2010/09/uberstudent-a-linux-distribution-for-students/ ((Archived on retrieval date by WebCite) )〕 succeeding at its aims "with aplomb, elegance, and power",〔 "a smart pick for getting your actual schoolwork done",〔 and "fantastic and delicious".〔Ljubuncic, Igor. "UberStudent 1.0 Cicero—Almost perfect; killed by a bug," ''Dedoimedo.'' Available at http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/uberstudent.html ((Archived on retrieval date by WebCite) )〕 It received a positive review in ''The Chronicle of Higher Education'', which cited UberStudent's completeness for doing core academic work, user-friendliness, and free and open source nature.〔Cavender, Amy. "UberStudent: An Academic-Oriented Linux Distribution," ''The Chronicle of Higher Education'', ProfHacker, 8 October 2010. Available at http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/uberstudent-an-academic-oriented-linux-distribution/27523 ((Archived on retrieval date by WebCite) ).〕 Sixty days after UberStudent's official 15 July 2010 release of UberStudent 1.0 Cicero Full Edition, its first non-beta, DistroWatch ranked it the most popular Linux distribution for education worldwide and the 32nd most popular overall out of the 316 varied distributions tracked by the organization.〔Ewen, Stephen. "UberStudent Moves From 0 to 32 on DistroWatch in 60 Days," ''UberStudent News,'' 24 September 2010. Available at http://www.uberstudent.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=49 ((Archived on retrieval date by WebCite) ).〕 Weeks after the 4.1 release, it ranked as the fifth-most popular Linix distribution in the world.〔https://www.facebook.com/uberstudent/photos/a.539210609435282.113317.490458344310509/878731542149852/?type=1〕 UberStudent's current release is 4.1, dubbed Epicurus. The distribution uses its own dedicated software repository.〔http://uberstudent.com/node/14〕 It can be run from a live CD or USB flash drive, or installed on to a computer's harddrive from either one of those mediums.〔〔http://uberstudent.com/get-uberstudent〕 ==Origin and design== UberStudent's founder and lead developer is Stephen Ewen, a U.S.-based educator who specializes in postsecondary literacy, academic success strategies, and educational technology. He began UberStudent, he has said, as "a way to place a set of smart and dedicated computing tools, and just the right amount of support, into the hands of students, whether currently within higher education or preparing for it in secondary school." His stated goal through UberStudent is for students to "learn to really excel at the core skills and habits they need to become everything they can academically be, and on into professional life." Ewen has stated that UberStudent is, in part, inspired by his own experiences achieving top academic performance with the assistance of educational technology.〔"Stephen Ewen - Project Lead," 12 Aug 2010. Available at http://www.uberstudent.org/mod/resource/view.php?id=18 ((Archived on retrieval date by WebCite) )〕 Ewen has described UberStudent's overarching design philosophy as one that provides a "unified system for learning, doing, and teaching academic success". Within this, he has said that UberStudent takes what he calls a "core academic skills" approach, which he has delineated as "the skills in research and writing, studying, and self-management required of students across all academic majors". He has stated that UberStudent can be "easily extended" for specific majors via additional software. Ewen has additionally asserted that, in part due to UberStudent's open source and cross-platform nature, as well as its Unix-like base, it is geared to produce "computer fluency" among its users as a "more or less natural outcome".〔〔"About UberStudent." Available at http://about.uberstudent.org/ ((Archived on retrieval date by WebCite) )〕〔UberStudent Slideshow, http://uberstudent.org/slideshow/slides/, retrieved 28 May 2011.〕 Ewen has argued that academic institutions can increase both their student learning outcomes and economic efficiency by more broadly adopting open source application and system software for everyday student academic computing needs. He has additionally argued for academic institutions to increase their involvement in developing open source tools, such as UberStudent, citing successes such as the bibliographic manager Zotero by George Mason University, included among UberStudent's set of core academic programs.〔"UberStudent—Ubuntu Version for Students and Researchers," ''Ubuntu Geek''. Available at http://www.ubuntugeek.com/uberstudent-ubuntu-version-for-students-and-researchers.html ((Archived on retrieval date by WebCite) )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「UberStudent」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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