Open|Web|Content|Education
an online course / hacking education
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today
welcome (schmidt)
1.
context (surman)
2.
Mozilla Education (hecker)
3.
CC Learn (bissell)
4.
course overview (schmidt)
5.

welcome
(schmidt)

bissell
surman
schmidt hecker

context
(surman)

goal:
helping educators learn open
content, technology and
pedagogical skills they can use
in their teaching

why?

why?

why?
students live + learn on the web

why?
we need to teach like the web

building blocks
1. (open)content
2. (open)technology
3. (open)pedagogy

building blocks
1. (open)content
2. (open)technology
3. (open)pedagogy
this course is about
these building blocks

open edu : 10,000 feet
Sharing. Collaborating. Remixing.
Informal and formal learning.
E.g. OpenCourseWare. Wikipedia. Utah
Open High School. Mozilla @ Seneca.
Peer 2 Peer University.
www.capetowndeclaration.org

why do we care?
Promote openness, participation
and distributed decision making
as a core part of Internet life.

why do we care?
Promote openness, participation
and distributed decision making
as a core part of Internet life.
Education is critical to this.

why do we care?
Also, an experiment

why do we care?
Also, an experiment
1. Share our skills
2. Bring in new ideas
3. Find more allies

why do we care?
Also, an experiment
1. Share our skills
2. Bring in new ideas
3. Find more allies
4. And have fun

Mozilla Education
(hecker)

Mozilla Education =
open education in a Mozilla context

Mozilla Education goals
create learning opportunities around
Mozilla technologies and practices
support new generation of Mozilla
community members
help drive new wave of participatory,
student-led learning

building a global community of
Mozilla educators
build on Mozilla curriculum
pioneered at Seneca College
support faculty and students
incorporating Mozilla into
coursework
integrate academic participants
into broader Mozilla community

getting involved in Mozilla Education
education.mozilla.org
IRC: #education on irc.mozilla.org
education@lists.mozilla.org
Dave Humphrey <david.humphrey@senecac.
on.ca>

Creative Commons
(bissell)

Creative Commons
ccLearn
Minimize
legal, technical, social
barriers to
sharing and reuse of educational
materials.

Our mission focuses on ways to improve
the opportunities for and quality of
education for everyone:
Teach people about OER.
Solve problems.
Build and diversify community.
Explore better pedagogical models.
Empower teachers and learners.

We embrace some overarching
principles for engaged pedagogies -
these are not new, but become
almost inevitable (in a
positive way) when embracing
the benefits of
open licenses,
open technologies,
open collaboratories.

Crucial considerations
Constant, formative feedback.
Educate for skills and capacities,
not rote knowledge.
Leverage the available human and
material capital effectively.
Consider all of the fundamental
building blocks of a participatory
learning system simultaneously.
Enjoy your learning!

the course
(schmidt)

6 1/2 weeks
b
l
intro context
1. u
open content case-studies
2. e
open tech basics
3. p
open content licensing
4. r
open tech on the horizon
5. i
open pedagogy round-table
6. n
t
More sessions for project i
discussion and feedback if n
g
needed

how it works
glass-house everyone can look in
weekly seminars with interesting
people (recordings)
google group discussion
social bookmarking
different week, same ...
prep for next seminar
blueprint pipeline
check wiki (and email) for
details

blueprinting
?idea -> blueprint -> protoype -> project!

blueprinting
individual ideas group projects
geeks and educators
common interests
took a stab at grouping
feed into ongoing things:
Mozilla Education portal
Firefox plug-ins
Peer2Peer University

next steps
decide on groups!
start sketching
ideas more important than details
a picture ...
enough detail so you can start
building

what does it look like?
template on the wiki
create a wiki page or host it
elsewhere
blueprint fundamentals
open content
open tech
open pedagogy
some more important than others

idea example
I'd like to examine how these tools could help
educators to assess largely digitized assignments
(like blogs). I currently use a wiki to collect
and evaluate my student's blogs. Ideally, I'd like
some mechanism to bookmark and easily assess
digital works in a way that would provide fields
for assessment criteria as well as highlighting
items on the page for the student. I'm especially
interested in Open Source tools as an alternative
to clunky, top down, proprietary edu ware that
currently dominates our institutions.

idea example
My initial project idea is to design
(and possibly develop) a lightweight
aggregator for following student blogs.
I have been organizing several open
online courses and found out that I need
something more than plain RSS reader to
follow the course. Maybe it can be
developed with Yahoo Pipes.

discussion