Engaging Students in Open Source Software for Learning Professional Skills in Academia

The digital world makes human life more comfortable. This digital world has been created by the software. It seems to be that availability of this software in academia is not up to the mark. To enhance the role of software in academics there is a need to use open source software. The Open source software is popular as it provides the source code to the end user. Here the source code is available for user to change or modification for improvement from its original design. Most of the time, it is free of charge with the help of General Public License (GNU). This paper is a study of basic information of OSS, various development models for OSS, the use of OSS in the area of academics to improve the education system. This paper also discusses on previous work of the current scenario