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== MOOC? == | == K-MOOC? == | ||
[[File:K-MOOC.png|thumbnail|right|[http://kmooc.uni-obuda.hu/ K-MOOC]]] | |||
MOOC is the initialism „Massive Open Online Courses”, and describes online courses available for anyone on the internet for free, for a wide audience to provide accessible, open information and opportunity for learning. There are several MOOC providers already, operating worldwide (like edX, Coursera or Udacity). | MOOC is the initialism „Massive Open Online Courses”, and describes online courses available for anyone on the internet for free, for a wide audience to provide accessible, open information and opportunity for learning. There are several MOOC providers already, operating worldwide (like edX, Coursera or Udacity). | ||
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Brian King [https://twitter.com/slsoftworks/status/589343901288423424 in his presentation] titled ''„The Mozilla Community – A global movement making local impact”'' talked about Mozilla's values, the importance of community ''(either on a local or global scale)'' and continued collaboration between associations across all aspects of society (corporations, foundations, government and academia). | Brian King [https://twitter.com/slsoftworks/status/589343901288423424 in his presentation] titled ''„The Mozilla Community – A global movement making local impact”'' talked about Mozilla's values, the importance of community ''(either on a local or global scale)'' and continued collaboration between associations across all aspects of society (corporations, foundations, government and academia). | ||
==== Firefox OS Education Award ==== | ==== Hungarian Firefox OS Education Award ==== | ||
[[File:FxOS education award.jpg|200px|thumbnail|Hungarian Firefox OS Education Award]] | |||
Starting with the 2015 spring semester, at the end of each semester every application submission evaluated and the student (and his home institute) with the best application awarded with the ''Hungarian Firefox OS Education Award''. The creator of the best application receives a Firefox OS device to make they continue contributing and supporting the application, while his home institute receives an engraved Firefox OS Award Cup. This both rewards and motivates students, and recognizes individual institutes for their support in the program. | Starting with the 2015 spring semester, at the end of each semester every application submission evaluated and the student (and his home institute) with the best application awarded with the ''Hungarian Firefox OS Education Award''. The creator of the best application receives a Firefox OS device to make they continue contributing and supporting the application, while his home institute receives an engraved Firefox OS Award Cup. This both rewards and motivates students, and recognizes individual institutes for their support in the program. | ||
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* University of Veszprém | * University of Veszprém | ||
''Note that above list might change according to how preparations progress at the partner institutions.'' | ''Note that above list might change according to how preparations progress at the partner institutions.<br/> | ||
We are continously working on onboarding more institutions to the program, by using inter-institution relations and [https://reps.mozilla.org/e/open-education-conference-in-hungary/ advocating the project at education conferences].'' | |||
=== Course format === | === Course format === | ||
Classes at every participating institution will join a central, live-streamed e-learning lecture each week for 14 or 15 weeks. The lecture will then be recorded, and made available for later viewing for students not available at the time of broadcasting. The lecture will be presented at a different participating institution each week — institutes could opt-in to host lectures if they possess the sufficient infrastructure required to broadcasting the lecture to other participants. | |||
Institutions could opt-in for a laboratory class, following the lecture, in which students can get hands-on experience in the topic previously discussed in the lecture. All institutions are provided with some Firefox OS devices (whether or not they opt-in for the lab class), that they could use to provide testing devices for the Firefox OS course's attendees. Laboratory course attendees could get help from instructors joining remotely (via TeamViewer) or locally (from volunteer lecturers who already graduated the course on previous semesters). | |||
=== Course material === | === Course material === | ||
You can find the up-to-date current course materials, as well as course material of the previous semesters [https://github.com/MozillaHU/firefox-os-course on the Mozilla Hungary GitHub]. | You can find the up-to-date current course materials, as well as course material of the previous semesters [https://github.com/MozillaHU/firefox-os-course on the Mozilla Hungary GitHub]. | ||
=== Expected outcome === | === Expected outcome === | ||
Before the end of the semester, students are expected to provide an application created for Firefox OS as their output requirement, and will be graded according to the sophistication and number of features used in said app. Users need to submit completed applications to the Marketplace, and after successful review, a raffle will be held to give out some Firefox OS devices to those who completed marketplace review - this is to motivate completed apps showing up in the Marketplace, even after the semester grading has taken place. | |||
At the end of each semester, the author of the best Firefox OS application and his home institution is decided and rewarded with a Firefox OS device and a unique Education Award.<br> | |||
For more details, read on at the [[#Hungarian Firefox OS Education Award|Firefox OS Education Award]] section. | |||