When I was in undergrad, my college didn’t have many options for computer classes. It has since adopted lots of open source (including Moodle - which I just love). I don’t know what portion of their curriculum includes open source, but I hope they come close to what’s being done at Seneca:

When I first became involved with Mozilla through working on a Mozilla Foundation accessibility grant, I quickly discovered the impressive open source educational work at Seneca College in Toronto, lead by David Humphry and Chris Tyler. Students on the computer science course get the enviable opportunity to work on projects that immerse them directly in some of the most successful open source development communities, contributing to programs such as Firefox, Thunderbird, Open Office and Fedora (Linux).  These projects are not just academic exercises, rather they are strategic for the open source projects, and students contributions are accepted into the projects. As a result students get incomparable experience working on large code bases and in the process acquire the open source software and community development skills that are highly sought by companies all over the world.

This from a post on open source education at the OSS Watch team blog. Do you know of any educational institution that’s teaching this much (or more) open source? If so I’d love to hear about it.

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