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'''(1) Mozilla@Seneca, looking at learning in a large open source community [http://zenit.senecac.on.ca/wiki/index.php/Main_Page]'''

These courses take students directly into the Mozilla project and community, teaching them how to cope at scale with complex technology and open source collaboration.  Students are taught the skills necessary to become active contributors on Firefox, Thunderbird, etc., and are expected to do real project work (i.e., work on bugs and enhancements chosen in consultation with Mozilla).  The approach to teaching Mozilla is to use Mozilla's technology and community platform, from blogs to irc to wikis to bugzilla.  This makes it easy for students and Mozilla contributors to blend naturally.  Below are some links relevant resources:

'''(2) David Wiley: Open Education Course at Utah State University [http://opencontent.org/wiki/index.php?title=Intro_Open_Ed_Syllabus] '''

The goals of the course are (1) to give you a firm grounding in the current state of the field of open education, including related topics like copyright, licensing, and sustainability, (2) to help you locate open education in the context of mainstream instructional technologies like learning objects, and (3) to get you thinking, writing, and dialoguing creatively and critically about current practices and possible alternative practices in open education.  

'''(3) Jim Groom: Wordpress MU at University of Mary Washington [http://umwblogs.org/]'''

This project uses WordPress Multi-User (an open source semantic publishing platform) to allow students and faculty author online with minimal overhead. This is the second iteration of a multi-user blogging platform (see the ELS Blogs description below for the first) and it is available campus-wide to any UMW faculty, staff or student who wants to use it. It has grown to thirteen hundred student and faculty blogs during the Fall 2007/Spring 2008 semesters. This web-based publishing space offers the UMW academic community a quick and easy authoring solution that is flexible, elegant, and open. Providing a relatively simple process for creating class sites, e-portfolios, and a whole host of other web-based resources. It's an easily scalable model that let's universities think through digital identities that aren't sharecropped out to 3rd party corporate services.[http://www.darcynorman.net/2008/04/14/on-social-network-sharecropping/]

'''(4) Wayne Mackintosh: Learning 4 Content Project at WikiEducator'''

Learning4Content is WikiEducator's flagship capacity building project designed to enable teachers, lecturers and trainers in developing Mediawiki skills for collaborative authoring of Open Education Resources (OER).