Education/EduCourse

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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 protoyping of open learning projects. Starts on April 1, 2009 (to be confirmed).

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.

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

Week 1 - Intro

  • Describe course goals and intro students
  • Conversation about assignments, and individual projects
  • Participants get 10 min overview of each case study (pre-recorded audio or video interview)

Week 2 - Open educational resources and case-studies

  • Overview of what's happening in OER (Seminar by Ahrash Bissell, CCLearn)
  • Discussion of case study projects (Representatives from each project provide feedback)
  • Participants post first outlines of their projects / designs

Week 3 - Licensing

  • Licensing options
    • Licensing for open educational content (Seminar by CCLearn counsel)
    • Review of licensing approaches of each case
  • Project presentations and review
    • Participants and Mozilla/ccLearn/P2PU mentors review group projects and provide feedback

Week 4 - 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

Week 5 - Open web tech (on the horizon)

  • Emerging open web technologies: canvas, video tag, etc. (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 George Siemens, David Wiley, and others (facilitated by Philipp Schmidt, University of the Western Cape/ P2PU)
    • Review how cases are using participatory learning
  • Final project presentations
    • Group review of all projects
  • Review / closing

Case studies

We will use four existing open education projects as case studies (follow link for short descriptions) throughout:

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 (Draft)

Choose one of the two options:

  1. Think tomorrow - Design the future open education platform that you would want to use. Don't feel limited by the technology that exists today. What would such a platform look like, if there were (almost) no constraints? Create a mock-up, draw a picture, describe it in your words.
  2. Build today - You want to teach an open course in the near future, but you're not sure how to combine the best of open licensing, open technology and open pedagogy? Use the case-studies for inspiration, discuss your ideas with the other participants, get support and feedback from mentors, and leave with your very own platform.

Online interaction and prep reading

  • Student profiles, intro themselves in advance
  • Audio interviews w/ each case study students can hear in advance
  • Compile participants' blog feeds, and aggregate discussion in one central place
  • Weekly live seminars
  • Basic course outline and content on wiki

Approach

  • Six weeks of online interactive talks using WebEx or DimDim. Archive on video.
  • Talks presented by leading people from Mozilla, CC and other allies.
  • Participants use concepts from talks to develop design ideas for EdMoz site.
  • Participant and presenter community and interaction via mail list and IRC.
  • Same as Labs Concept Series course model (do we want a similar intake model?)

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 will then select a group of 20 people with diverse backgrounds and interests.

Since all materials are openly available (seminars will be recorded an published) we hope that others will start their own learning groups. Contact philipp at gmail dot come if you want to discuss this option.

If you would like to participate in this course, please sign up here.