Firefox OS/Community/Hungary/Education
Mozilla efforts in Hungarian Higher Education
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Mozillian contributors' efforts on spreading organized, state-of-the-art Open Web education across Hungarian higher education institutions.
Project lead:
- Krisztián Karóczkai (Budapest, Hungary)
- Web developer, Mozilla Rep, teacher & PhD student @ Óbuda University.
- https://reps.mozilla.org/u/krisztian_karoczkai/
Krisztián has bold plans to help us spread Mozilla/Firefox OS (but ultimately, open web) education in Hungarian higher education institutions. Part of these plans is arranging long-term education partnerships with the main educational centers across the country and enroll them into the Firefox OS MOOC pilot-program, which is a live streamed one-semester-long lecture on Firefox OS application development, happening simultaneously in all participating institutions.
Project participants:
- Szalai Kálmán "KAMI" (Budapest) - Mozilla Rep
- https://reps.mozilla.org/u/kami911/
- project organizer
- occasional teacher
- Szmozsánszky István "Flaki" (Budapest) - Mozilla Rep, Firefox OS developer lead
- https://reps.mozilla.org/u/flaki/
- project organizer
- occasional teacher
- Firefox OS development & mentoring
- community organizer
Project TODO
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- Align future plans, create elaborate structure for the 2015/2016 semester
- possible work together with MoFo
- expanding local mentor base (ascension of alumni into demonstrators)
- Elaborate on long-term plans for future sustainability & expansion
- additional courses (Webmaker?)
- transitioning course materials into the Content Kit format, converting presentations from prezi to (possibly offlineable) HTML5 slide deck format
- localizing material (translation into English)
- extending beyond borders (technical education in hungarian language Slovakia/Romania/Serbia?)
- localization and export of course materials into other communities
- Onboard even more institutions onto the Pilot
- GDF - 300 CS students/year - no response yet
- BME - 600 CS students/year - not approached yet
- ELTE - searching for opportunities / not possible in current format
- Veszprém/Győr/Debrecen/Nyíregyháza
- Explore approaches for scaling feasibility
- local presence is a must (at least two lessons)
- scalability of timing for a big number of locations
- strong need for official mozilla presence for PR reasons
- strong need for provided hardware&presenters / high price sensitivity ("free")
- Align with Mozilla Foundation Educational goals
- Prepare project materials for Firefox OS 3.0 transition
- starts this Fall semester (course will be updated with 1-2 class on new architecture, service workers, new security model etc)
Project history
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Webconf 2013 - mozilla & firefox os (KAMI+K)
Started first course in 2014 february in Óbuda University by Krisztián
First phones provided by Telenor Norway.
participants? (~20)
no marketplace requirement, output was: ?
Fall semester 2014, same format, course material updated.
participants? (~20-25)
no marketplace requirement, output was: ?
Spring 2015 semester
15 ppl laboratory + 16 ppl full e-learning course @ Óbuda
marketplace requirement, output was? success? links?
Kecskemét joined 3x10hr összevont / all day friday (12-13 ppl)
Travelled there (KAMI+Krisztián), reps reimbursed - 4 succeeded & approved
didn't work
Szeged joined e-learning (watching recorded classes from Óbuda University)
Locally consumed content+followed curriculum
+3 times consulting (+ presented actual session)
WORKS, expand on this forward -> transition into streamed version
Óbuda University & Mozilla's education partnership ceremony @ OpenIT 2015
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... more ...
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http://news.uni-obuda.hu/articles/2015/04/21/a-mozilla-es-az-obudai-egyetem-egyuttmukodesenek-elismerese
Firefox OS Education Award
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... more ...
Winner Kecskeméti Főiskola, Labyrinth app
Steiner Pál (phone winner)
Kis Milán (runner-up)
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https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1093485447345163&set=a.1093484197345288.1073741834.100000511535323&type=3&theater
Dunaújváros joins in 2015/Fall, see below for the semester-opening ceremony
Szeged/Kecskemét probably return for 2015/Fall
Maybe joining for 2015/Fall:
- Miskolc University?
- College of Eger?
Maybe joining for 2016/Spring:
- Veszprém University -- Mozilla/Firefox OS meetup coming up in Fall of 2015
Project details and participants
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About KMOOC
What is KMOOC?
https://kmooc.uni-obuda.hu/
open-source
hungarian (transnational - carpathian basin)
MOOC is available in several educational institutions:
http://kmooc.uni-obuda.hu/csatlakozott-intezmenyek
Firefox OS MOOC course
Streamed centrally via Hangouts & recorded/shared immediately (catching up for next week if missed class is perfectly possible)
lab course 2x45 minutes (DU: 3 minutes)
DU: 3 kredit (2+1 e-learning credit)
teamviewer (remote help)
after first semester, local helpers ascend from previous semester's class
Current course structure:
- 1, intro (platform+html,css,js)
- 2, UI 1 (building blocks, components)
- 3, UI 2 (brick, appmaker)
- 4, Network comms 1 (Network, XMLHTTPRequest, CORS)
- 5, Network comms 2 (OAUTH, Persona/FB/G+)
- 6, Network comms 3 (websockets)
- 7, Storage 1 (Local/sessionstorage, indexedDB) --- ?localForage
- 8, Storage 2 (contacts)
- 9, Storage 3 (music/pictures/SDCard/video)
- 10, Sensors/API 1 (vibrate, battery, gyro/accelero)
- 11, Sensors/API 2 (geolocation, orientation)
- 12, Online APIs (writing location-based apps using OpenStreetMap)
- 13, Web Activities
- 14, Async/background (Alarm, Notifications APIs)
- (optional) 15, wrapup, presenting apps
Hardware-needs:
Firefox OS phones (2keon 2peak or something)
Prequisites:
Nice to have: HTML+CSS+JS
CS viewpoint
aki nem érzi elvérzik
akinek volt az imádja
Output:
App uploaded
- Where did I park? https://marketplace.firefox.com/app/where-did-i-park?src=search
- Labyrinth (2014/15 winner)
PER Semester:
Best student - FirefoxOS phone (PEAK)
Trophy - for the school for the top performing student's achievment
Ascension into local demonstrator phase
Problems:
Marketplace review - expedited review is a must
fixed review groups
About the Firefox OS MOOC course:
focus on WEB API
Language: hungarian
https://elearning.uni-obuda.hu/kmooc/course/view.php?id=27036
Materials & resources:
- Slides: 15 slideshow (online, Prezi.com) https://prezi.com/lfreezjykgpa/karoczkai-krisztian/
- Examples: on GitHub https://github.com/uni-firefoxos/apps/tree/master/example
- Recorded talks from last semester: https://www.youtube.com/user/krisztiankaroczkai/videos
Participating higher education institutions (returning for this fall semester):
- Óbuda University
- University of Szeged
- Kecskemét College
New institutions implementing the course this fall:
- College of Dunaujvaros
- College of Eger
- Miskolc University
- University of Veszprém
The course lectures will be broadcasted online every week, from different locations.
Each, or at least most of the participating universities will have a chance to host a local lecture.
Firefox OS MOOC course references:
http://kmooc.uni-obuda.hu/content/mobil-alkalmaz%C3%A1s-fejleszt%C3%A9s-firefoxos-platformon
Mozilla Webmaker course
Starting Óbuda University (this fall)
HTML5+CSS+JS
Óbuda University
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Hosting base institution for the previous semesters.
Hosts the Firefox OS MOOC course:
https://elearning.uni-obuda.hu/kmooc/course/index.php?categoryid=68
http://users.nik.uni-obuda.hu/to/tantargy/mobil-alkalmazas-fejlesztes-firefoxos-platformon
2014/Spring
2014/Fall
2015/Spring
Returns in 2015/Fall (streamed local lab+full e-learning)
University of Szeged
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Hosts the Firefox OS MOOC course:
https://reps.mozilla.org/e/firefox-os-semester-in-university-of-szeged/
http://www.u-szeged.hu/tanrend?browse=kurzus&kurzusId=1636941&ciklusId=2014-2015-2
2015/Spring (hybrid - local hosted + 3 guest sessions)
Possibly returning for 2015/Fall (streamed local lab)
Upcoming whole-day Firefox OS + Rust/Servo joint Mozilla event
TBD
possibly linked with the local part of the course
College of Kecskemét
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Hosts the Firefox OS MOOC course:
http://gamfinfo.hu/firefox-os-programozas
https://reps.mozilla.org/e/firefox-os-semester-in-kecskemet-college/
2015/Spring (3 packed sessions)
Possibly returning for 2015/Fall (streamed local lab)
College of Dunaújváros
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FirefoxOS 2015/2016 semester opening
Joining us: Brian King representing Mozilla
All other participating institutions already in the MOOC course join the event on live stream (including 2015/fall semester's new participants Eger & Miskolc)
College of Dunaújváros will join the Firefox OS education program in Hungary!
https://reps.mozilla.org/e/firefox-os-semester-in-college-of-dunaujvaros/
https://reps.mozilla.org/e/mozilla-firefoxos-semester-opening-ceremony-college-of-dunaujvaros/
College of Dunaújváros will host its first course on Firefox OS application development at the College this next semester. The College has a "contributor wall" with long-term University collaborators' logos, where we plan to place a Mozilla signboard to join the other logos -- at the start of the semester we plan on having a reveal ceremony for the plaque, and spending most of the day at the main hall, setting up a Mozilla booth, speaking about Mozilla technologies, and helping students partake in the newly founded courses on Open Web education.
There is a detailed rundown on costs and information on the above event at the etherpad url: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/remo-mozilla-firefoxos-semester-opening-ceremony-college-of-dunaujvaros
It would be great to have Brian King as an official representative of Mozilla (not unlike the event for the Óbuda University ceremony).