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This is the wiki page for Open|Web|Content|Education -- a six week online course where educators learn about open content licensing, open web technologies and open teaching methods.

Co-organized by Mozilla, ccLearn and P2PU. Includes interactive online talks and hands on prototyping of open learning projects.

Starts on 2 April, 2009! Sign-up is closed now and participant profiles have been moved to the Participants page.

This is the original course announcement.

Audience

Educators looking for skills to help them with open teaching and learning.
Should have some tech or content production skills already.
Likely to come from areas like: new media, communications, design, comp studies.
Have a project idea that they'd like to work on as part of the course.

Goals

Help educators learn about open licensing, technology and teaching.
Test and assess the online course method being developed by Mozilla Labs.
Create awareness of Mozilla Education, ccLearn, and P2PU amongst educators.
Gather design ideas for education.mozilla.org and other open learning projects.

Content

This is only a basic overview of the course. Please refer to the detailed Outline for the seminar dates, links to background reading and everything else you need to participate.

The course helps educators develop basic skills in three three broad areas -- open licensing, open technology, and open pedagogy -- to help them apply 'open' in their teaching. Some of the most konwledgeable people working in this field, will give online seminars introducing the key concepts and answering questions. To get a sense how these ideas play out in the real world, we will also be looking at a number of case-studies, and their use of open content, technology and pedagogy.

Finally, students will be working (by themselves or in small groups) on their own blueprints and concepts for open education applications.

Week 1 - Intro

Week 1 serves as an introduction to the course content and logistics. We'll have a web seminar with some of the organisers from Mozilla and CC and discuss some of the ideas for blueprints and concepts put forward by participants.

Week 2 - Open content / Open educational resources

Overview of what's happening in OER (Seminar by Ahrash Bissell, ccLearn) and an in-depth look at the case studies.

Week 3 - Open web tech (basics)

What makes the web open? What makes it closed? (Seminar by Mozilla's Chris Blizzard)

Week 4 - Open content / Licensing

Licensing for open educational content (Seminar by Lila Bailey, ccLearn counsel)

Week 5 - Open web tech (on the horizon)

Emerging open web technologies and Mozilla Labs experiments. (Seminar by someone from Mozilla labs)

Week 6: Open learning and pedagogy

Overview of approaches in participatory online learning. Round-table conversation with George Siemens, David Wiley, and others (facilitated by Philipp Schmidt, P2PU)

Case studies

We will look at four existing open education projects as Case Studies (follow link for longer descriptions, interviews, links) to understand how they used open licensing, open technology and open pedagogy:

David Humphrey: Mozilla Course @ Seneca College, developing software development skills in a large open source community
David Wiley: Introduction to Open Education course, where students from around the world participate online
Jim Groom: Using Wordpress MU at University of Mary Washington as an alternative open publishing platform
Wayne Mackintosh: The Learning 4 Content project at WikiEducator builds capacity to develop free educational content

Practical assignment

We asked all participants to submit description of a project that they'd like to work on during the six weeks of the course. Have a look at what they came up with on the Participants page.

Questions

Post your questions, and find answers on the FAQ page.

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 Co-organized by [[Education | Mozilla]], [http://learn.creativecommons.org/ ccLearn] and [http://www.peer2peeruniversity.org/ P2PU]. Includes interactive online talks and hands on prototyping of open learning projects.
-'''Starts on 2 April, 2009!'''
+'''Starts on 2 April, 2009! Sign-up is closed now and participant profiles have been moved to the [[Education/EduCourse/Participants|Participants]] page.'''
-We sent out the course [[Education/EduCourse/Announcement|announcement]].
+This is the original course [[Education/EduCourse/Announcement|announcement]].
 == Audience ==
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 ==Content==
-This is the basic overview, which we will expand on the [[Education/EduCourse/Outline|Outline]] page as the course gets underway.
+This is only a basic overview of the course. '''Please refer to the detailed [[Education/EduCourse/Outline|Outline]] for the seminar dates, links to background reading and everything else you need to participate.'''
+The course helps educators develop basic skills in three three broad areas -- open licensing, open technology, and open pedagogy -- to help them apply 'open' in their teaching. Some of the most konwledgeable people working in this field, will give online seminars introducing the key concepts and answering questions. To get a sense how these ideas play out in the real world, we will also be looking at a number of case-studies, and their use of open content, technology and pedagogy.
+Finally, students will be working (by themselves or in small groups) on their own blueprints and concepts for open education applications.
 '''Week 1 - Intro'''
-* Week 1 serves as an introduction to the course content and logistics, and clarify any questions about the projects.
+* Week 1 serves as an introduction to the course content and logistics. We'll have a web seminar with some of the organisers from Mozilla and CC and discuss some of the ideas for blueprints and concepts put forward by participants.
-* Describe course goals and intro students (Mark Surman, Frank Hecker, Ahrash Bissell, Philipp Schmidt)
-* Discuss assignments, and student projects
-* Participants get 10 min overview of each case study (pre-recorded audio or video interview)
-'''Week 2 - Open educational resources and case-studies'''
+'''Week 2 - Open content / Open educational resources'''
-* Overview of what's happening in OER (Seminar by Ahrash Bissell, [http://learn.creativecommons.org/ ccLearn])
+* Overview of what's happening in OER (Seminar by Ahrash Bissell, [http://learn.creativecommons.org/ ccLearn]) and an in-depth look at the [[Education/EduCourse/CaseStudies | case studies]].
-* Discussion of case studies (Representatives from each case-study provide feedback)
-* Participants post first outlines of their projects / designs
-'''Week 3 - Open web tech (basics) / Project review'''
+'''Week 3 - Open web tech (basics)'''
 * What makes the web open? What makes it closed? (Seminar by Mozilla's Chris Blizzard)
-** Basic techs like JavaScript, CSS, Add ons
-** Review of how cases do and don't use open web tech
-* Participants and Mozilla/ccLearn/P2PU mentors review group projects and provide feedback
-'''Week 4 - Licensing'''
+'''Week 4 - Open content / Licensing'''
 * Licensing for open educational content (Seminar by Lila Bailey, [http://learn.creativecommons.org/ ccLearn] counsel)
-** Review of licensing approaches of each case
 '''Week 5 - Open web tech (on the horizon)'''
-* Emerging open web technologies: canvas, video tag, etc. (Seminar by someone from Mozilla labs)
+* Emerging open web technologies and Mozilla Labs experiments. (Seminar by someone from Mozilla labs)
-** Mozilla Labs experiments: Ubiquity, Weave, etc.
-** Brainstorm: how could cases use technologies like these?
-* Project presentations and review (ctd.)
-** Participants and Mozilla/ccLearn/P2PU mentors review group projects and provide feedback
-'''Week 6: Open learning'''
-* Overview of approaches in participatory online learning
-** Round-table conversation with [http://www.elearnspace.org/blog/ George Siemens], David Wiley, and others (facilitated by Philipp Schmidt, [http://www.peer2peeruniversity.org/ P2PU])
-** Review how cases are using participatory learning
-* Final project presentations
-** Group review of all projects
-* Review / closing
-== Web seminar schedule ==
+'''Week 6: Open learning and pedagogy'''
+* Overview of approaches in participatory online learning. Round-table conversation with [http://www.elearnspace.org/blog/ George Siemens], David Wiley, and others (facilitated by Philipp Schmidt, [http://www.peer2peeruniversity.org/ P2PU])
-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 here.
-* Week 1: 2 April (Thu)
-* Week 2: 9 April (Thu)
-* Week 3: 14 April (Tue - project discussion)
-* Week 3: 16 April (Thu)
-* Week 4: 23 April (Thu)
-* Week 5: 28 April (Tue - project discussion)
-* Week 5: 30 April (Thu)
-* Week 6: 5 May (Tue) - final project review)
-* Week 6: 7 May (Thu)
 ==Case studies==
-We will use four existing open education projects as [[Education/EduCourse/CaseStudies | case studies]] (follow link for short descriptions) throughout:
+We will look at four existing open education projects as [[Education/EduCourse/CaseStudies | Case Studies]] (follow link for longer descriptions, interviews, links) to understand how they used open licensing, open technology and open pedagogy:
-* David Humphrey: [http://zenit.senecac.on.ca/wiki/index.php/Main_Page Mozilla@Seneca], looking at learning in a large open source community
+* David Humphrey: Mozilla Course @ Seneca College, developing software development skills in a large open source community
-* David Wiley: [http://open.byu.edu/ipt692r-wiley BYU open education course], where students from around the world participate online
+* David Wiley: Introduction to Open Education course, where students from around the world participate online
-* Jim Groom: [http://umwblogs.org/ Wordpress MU at University Mary Washington] pioneers an open platform for course design
+* Jim Groom: Using Wordpress MU at University of Mary Washington as an alternative open publishing platform
-* Wayne Mackintosh: [http://www.wikieducator.org/Learning4Content Learning 4 Content] project at [http://www.wikieducator.org WikiEducator] builds capacity to develop free educational content
+* Wayne Mackintosh: The Learning 4 Content project at WikiEducator builds capacity to develop free educational content
-Each case study will be introduced during week one. We will then look at the licensing, technology and teaching approaches of each case as we move through the seminars.
 ==Practical assignment==
-On the [[Education/EduCourse/SignUp|sign up]] page, we ask you to submit description of a project that you'd like to work on during the six weeks of the course.
+We asked all participants to submit description of a project that they'd like to work on during the six weeks of the course. Have a look at what they came up with on the [[Education/EduCourse/Participants|Participants]] page.
-The idea is to come up with educational design ideas that apply the open content, open tech, and open pedagogy ideas discussed in the course. Possible project topics include:
-* A plan or mockup for improving education.mozilla.org, Mozilla's emerging platform for educators (it's just a wiki now :)).
-* A spec for turning Firefox into the 'educational platform for the future' by pulling together addons for specific education use cases
-* A light-weight tool to integrate Web 2.0 services into one edu-platform, using things like RSS and sticky-tape
-* An e-portfolio that follows students around the web, and can be used for recognition and assessment of their work on blogs, wikis, in discussion threads, etc.
-Of course, you can also do a project built around a course or initiative that you plan to implement personally. The only thing we ask is that the project focus on something practical and real. It shouldn't just be an exercise.
-There will be dedicated sessions during the course to discuss the projects, and mentors from Mozilla, ccLearn, and P2PU will provide feedback.
-==Approach==
-* Basic course outline and content on wiki
-* Student profiles on the wiki
-* Audio interviews w/ each case study to download in advance
-* Compile participants' blog feeds, and aggregate discussion in one central place
-* Six weeks of online interactive talks using WebEx, recordings will be made available here.
-* Talks presented by leading people from Mozilla, ccLearn, P2PU and other allies.
-* Participants use concepts from talks to develop design ideas for EdMoz site, and other projects.
-* Participant and presenter community and interaction via mailing list and IRC.
-==Participants Sign Up Here==
-Participation is open to anyone with an interest in the open education platform of the future. We are asking participants to tell us a little bit about their backgrounds, and sketch out an idea for the project they'd like to work on during the course. We only have space for the first 20 people in the original course, but if interest is sufficient, we hope to run it again in the future.
-If you would like to participate in this course, please sign up [[Education/EduCourse/SignUp|here]].
 ==Questions==
 Post your questions, and find answers on the [[Education/EduCourse/FAQ|FAQ]] page.