Mozilla Foundation launches online course - Hands-on open education
The Mozilla Foundation (in collaboration with ccLearn and the Peer 2 Peer University) launches a practical online seminar on open education. This six week course is targeted at educators who will gain simple skills to apply open licensing, open technology, and open pedagogy in their work - and get input from some of the world leading innovators in the process.
The course will kick-off with a web-seminar on Thursday 2 April 2009 and run for 6 weeks.
New topics will be introduced in weekly web seminars. Participants will work individually on prototypes of open learning projects, share and discuss ideas in a community of peers, and get feedback from experienced mentors. We will also take a close look at some of the most innovative examples of open education projects, and speak to the people who designed them, including:
- The Open Source Software courses at Seneca College;
- David Wiley's Introduction to Open Education;
- The open blog infrastructure at Mary Washington University; etc.
The course is targeted at educators who want to help shape the open education future. Participants should have some knowledge of web technologies, or open content licensing, or open pedagogy (or all three), but don't need to be experts.
Interested in participating? Head to the course wiki, and submit your project idea!
Course outline: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Education/EduCourse
Sign-up page: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Education/EduCourse/SignUp
For questions about the course or the sign-up process, contact:
Philipp Schmidt
Peer 2 Peer University
philipp AT peer2peeruniversity.org
Contact Mozilla Foundation:
Frank Hecker
Mozilla Foundation
hecker AT mozillafoundation.org
Contact ccLearn
Ahrash Bissell
ccLearn
ahrash AT creativecommons.org