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	Mozilla Learning Strategy
	Owner: Mark Surman, Ben Moskowitz	Updated: 2015-07-30
	http://mzl.la/MozillaU Planning and conversation hub for Mozilla Learning Strategy

Summer Overview

	Meta	Impact Metrics and Stories	Unified Learning Network	Mozilla Fellows	Inclusion	Web Literacy	Developer skills (MDN)
July 2015	"Leadership Development" overview	Develop straw man for unified leadership development (external outcomes)	Outline developmental model and infrastructure needs	Outline common on-boarding and infrastructure needs	Outline operational principles for inclusion	Outline agenda & partner needs	Outline agenda & partner needs
August 2015	"Lead By Example" overview	Develop straw man for unified advocacy / thought leadership (external outcomes)	Iterate and add resolution		Outline agenda & partner needs	Recommendations on how product can amplify goals
September 2015	Public engagement	Partner & funder re-engagement	Blogging & messaging	Alumni & host institution outreach	Roundtable with UN Women	Roundtable with Equity	View Source conference
October 2015	Board approval
November 2015	Mozilla Festival
December 2015	All-Hands

How to get involved: Navigate to the working group page, and get in touch with the chair of the working group(s) you would like to engage with.

Key Documents

• Mozilla Learning Plan for 2015 -- our main planning document
• Mozilla Academy Planning Overview -- outlining the strategic planning process, key milestones and working groups
• Skills Curve -- What skills do we want to teach? What is the addressable market?
• Fellowships -- Creating a shared platform for fellowships across Mozilla and how it ties to Mozilla's long-term goals
• Target Audience -- Who learns with Mozilla?
• Program reviews for Learning Products and Learning Networks
• People consulted in this process -- please add suggestions to this document
• Emerging markets field user research reports for Webmaker by Laura de Reynal: Bangladesh, Kenya, India

Historical context

Planning work began in Q4 of 2015 and is ongoing. We're working in the open and sharing thinking and progress as blog posts and on this wiki as we go.

• Building Mozilla Learning together (Dec 2014) -- Video -- Mark Surman -- presenting the early vision in Portland
• "Mozilla and Learning: thinking bigger" (Jan 15) -- Mark Surman -- Mozilla as a global classroom and lab. Why understanding the web matters.
• "Building an Academy" (March 31) -- Mark Surman -- What's the opportunity? What do we want to build? What do we want people to know? What do we want people to know?
• Mozilla Academy Strategy Update -- Mark Surman -- An update on the process, team and next steps.

Conversation

• Learning experiments on MDN (Feb 2) -- Justin Crawford -- How the Mozilla Developer Network might relate. Their new learning area and creating new pathways into advanced web topics
• "A Mozilla Developer Institute" (May 1) -- Phillip Schmidt -- Why Mozilla should create a "Mozilla Developer Institute" to train the next generation of technology inventors. And how Mozilla could do this by building on existing resources.
• "Walled Empires, Zero-Rating and Web Literacy" (May 8) -- Michelle Thorne -- Reflections on what internet the next billion users will find and what we can do to ensure its a platform for them to create and participate online.
• "Mozilla Academy Thoughts"(May 28) -- Laura Hilliger -- the balance b/w inclusivity and having an opinion, towards "common approaches" and thoughts on the governance model of Mozilla Academy.
• "Investing in Web Literacy — Tools for Thinking"(June 3) -- Ben Moskowitz -- a mental model to think about, map and understand user capabilities.
• please add your blog post here