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This paper describes how Open Source philosophy, a movement that has developed in opposition to the proprietary software industry, has influenced educational practice in the pursuit of scholarly freedom and authentic learning activities for students and educators. This paper provides a brief overview of the Open Source movement, and describes three Open Source-inspired Web-based tools/environments developed to promote open sharing and constructing of scholarly work on the Web: self-publishing, knowledge sharing and peer-to-peer networking. Includes three color figures. (Author/AEF) Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document