Education
This wiki serves as a hub for Mozilla Education, a broad collection of efforts that help students, professors and anyone else learn from and contribute to Mozilla.
See the FAQ and planning documents for more background.
Status
Mozilla Education began as a pilot project in January 2009. We are currently implementing the first round of activities. If you want to find out more:
- Participate in weekly status meetings
- Read and comment on evolving planning documents
- Browse the list of projects available for students (add link once the project list is live)
There are also a number of events happening] happening (or that have happened) where you can meet with people involved in Mozilla Education.
Active Projects
The Mozilla Education philosophy is 'learn by doing'. Activities focus on concrete skills that can be learned by participating in the Mozilla community.
- Virtual Seneca: Coding projects and mentorships for computer studies students. '
- Learning Mozilla in Europe: Three month summer course for computer studies students in Europe. (Gregorio: need better title and descriptor)
- Mozilla Labs Design Challenge: Three week online course for user interface design students. (applications: March 1 / course starts: March 19)
- Open | Web | Content | Education: Six week online course for educators on the latest in open web technology, content licensing and participatory online teaching. (course starts: March 19)
- Mozilla student project list: Projects that have been pre-screened as suitable for students new to Mozilla
There are also many other Mozilla-related courses happening around the world. If you run a course like this, please add your info to our learning map.
(Dave, Gregorio, etc.: need better names and descriptors for some of the stuff above)
Mozilla Courseware
As Mozilla Education projects produce learning materials, we will place the online for others to use.
- Course-friendly materials
- Other Mozilla learning resources for students and educators
Unless otherwise indicated all Mozilla Education materials are available for reuse, redistribution, and remixing under the Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution license (CC-BY).
- Featured courseware: Seneca's Real World Mozilla, a one week crash course on Mozilla culture and technology.
Get Involved
(Dave: can you create content for these sections below including links to chunks of text from your current guidelines?)
Students
- Guidelines for students
- List of active student projects
- Featured project: description of active student project. changes weekly.
Professors
- Guidelines for professors
- Courseware you can re-use and build on
- Learning map of Mozilla-related courses
- Featured courses: description of course happening somewhere
Mozilla Contributors
- Guidelines for Mozilla contributors who want to work with students
Other Info
Please feel free to add new material and pages to this site; however please conform to our evolving site naming conventions.
- Evolve this from Mozilla Projects for students and educators