Education/EduCourse/Outline

Approach

• We will keep the course outline, links to all content, and assignments on this page
• Participants profiles and project ideas are stored on the Participants page
• Each week, we'll have an online seminar using WebEx, covering the three broad topics of the course (recordings of all seminars will be made available here). You will get an invitation by email to each seminar!
• For questions and discussion we use the course mailing list
• Participants are encouraged to share bookmarks, using diigo or del.icio.us (tag: MozOpenEdCourse)
• There is also a general IRC channel for Mozilla education discussions, but keep in mind that the channel it is not exclusively focused on this course (#education on moznet)

Web-seminar times

Web seminars are synchronous online seminars, which require Internet connectivity. We will be using WebEx to host the seminars and schedule the times to accommodate participation from around the world. Recordings will be posted on this page.

All seminars, except week 2, run in the following time-slot:

• 8 am US West Coast UTC -7
• 11 am US East Coast UTC -4
• 16 pm Most of Europe UTC +1
• 17 pm South Africa UTC+2
• 20.30 India UTC +5.5
• 23.00 Philippines UTC +8
• 4am Otago/NZ UTC +13

The week 2 seminar will be held at the following time:

• 12 noon US West Coast UTC -7
• 15 pm US East Coast UTC -4
• 20 pm Most of Europe UTC +1
• 21 pm South Africa UTC+2
• 00.30 India UTC +5.5
• 3 am Philippines UTC +8
• 8 am Otago/NZ UTC +13

Week 1 - Intro

• Web-seminar 2 April 2009
• Introduction to the course (Mark Surman, Frank Hecker, Ahrash Bissell, Philipp Schmidt)
• Week 1 serves as an introduction to the course content and logistics, and clarify any questions about the projects. Mark and Frank (Mozilla Foundation) will speak about the overall concept of Mozilla Education and how this course fits into it. Ahrash Bissell (Creative Commons, ccLearn) will provide some background on Creative Commons' education activities. Philipp Schmidt (UWC, P2PU) will run through the logistics of the course, and how we will work together in the next 6 weeks.
• We will then discuss the project and blueprint ideas, how to develop them over the next few weeks, and what we hope participants will get out of the course.
• Tasks for Week 1 (complete prior to the seminar):
  • Create an account on this Mozilla wiki
  • Review the participant profiles: (Participants)
  • Update your own profile if any of the information is missing
  • Look at the proposed blueprint ideas and find some that are similar to yours
  • Use the mailing list to suggest collaboration (if you want to work on a project together with someone else) or just leave comments and feedback
  • Create a diigo or del.icio.us account to share bookmarks with the group

Week 2 - Open content (open educational resources)

• Web-seminar 8 April 2009
• Overview of what's happening in OER (Seminar by Ahrash Bissell, ccLearn)
• Discussion of case studies (Representatives from each case-study provide feedback)
• Tasks for Week 2 (complete prior to the seminar)
  • Review the background materials on the Case Studies page
  • Listen to the interviews with David Wiley, Jim Groom, Dave Humphrey, and Wayne Mackintosh and hear them speak about their projects (download the files from the same page)
  • Prepare a few questions for David, Jim, Dave or Wayne related to your blueprint ideas

Week 3 - Open web tech (basics)

• Web-seminar 16 April 2009
• What makes the web open? What makes it closed? (Seminar by Mozilla's Chris Blizzard)
• Basic techs like JavaScript, CSS, Add ons

Week 4 - Open content (licensing)

• Web-seminar 23 April 2009
• Licensing for open educational content (Seminar by Lila Bailey, ccLearn counsel)

Week 5 - Open web tech (on the horizon)

• Web-seminar TBA
• Emerging open web technologies: canvas, video tag, etc. (Seminar by someone from Mozilla labs)
• Mozilla Labs experiments: Ubiquity, Weave, etc.

Week 6 - Open learning and pedagogy

• Web-seminar 5 May 2009 or 7 May 2009 (TBA)
• Overview of approaches in participatory online learning.Round-table conversation with George Siemens, Jason B. Jones, David Wiley, and others (facilitated by Philipp Schmidt, University of the Western Cape/ P2PU). We will mostly speak about projects that the panelists have been involved in, but also review how case studies have implemented open pedagogy.
  • George Siemens, Connectivism and Connective Knowledge
    In fall of 2008, George Siemens and Stephen Downes offered an online course - Connectivism and Connective Knowledge (CCK08) - in an open teaching model. Over 20 learners enrolled in the course for credit and over 2300 learners participated in the course without fee (and without credit). The course pioneered the concept of massive open online courses (MOOC). Lectures, discussions, and guest presentations were accessible to all learners. CCK08 was designed to account for existing online activities of learners. While a centralized learning space was established in Moodle, learners were encouraged to blog, podcast, meet in Second Life (and face-to-face). Patterns of interaction, as well as reactions of participants to increased need for sensemaking and wayfinding through networks, offer a potential model for future online courses. MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) http://ltc.umanitoba.ca/wiki/Connectivism and http://ltc.umanitoba.ca/connectivism/ - Book: http://ltc.umanitoba.ca/wikis/KnowingKnowledge/index.php/Main_Pag - Handbook: http://ltc.umanitoba.ca/wikis/etl/index.php/Handbook_of_Emerging_Technologies_for_Learning
  • Jason B. Jones
    
• Closing Seminar 7 May 2009 (TBA)
  • During week 6 we will also have a final round of project reviews, with feedback and input, and close the course off.