== What is Mozilla Education? ==
Mozilla Education aims to create learning opportunities and to support a new generation of Mozilla community members, and help to drive a new wave of participatory, student-led learning. By working with computer science, design, and business schools around the world, Mozilla hopes to move closer to [http://blog.lizardwrangler.com/2009/01/05/integrated-revised-2010-goals/ our broader goal] of making openness, participation and distributed decision-making more common experiences in Internet life.
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.
Working with computer science, design and business schools around the world, '''Mozilla Education aims to create learning opportunities for a new generation of Mozilla community members and help to drive a new wave of participatory, student-led learning'''. By doing this, we hope to move closer to [http://blog.lizardwrangler.com/2009/01/05/integrated-revised-2010-goals/ Mozilla's broader goal] of making openness, participation and distributed decision-making more common experiences in Internet life.
See the [[Education/FAQ|FAQ]] and [[Foundation:Planning:Education|planning documents]] for more background.
== Status Get Involved ==
People get involved with Mozilla Education began as in a pilot project in January 2009number of ways. We are currently implementing the first round of activities. If welcome you want to find out one or moreways to join us:
* Participate in As [[Education/StatusMeetingsAcademics|weekly status meetingsacademics]](teachers, students, professors, etc.) looking to research, teach, or work on Mozilla technologies as part of educational projects or in the classroom.* Read and comment on evolving As [[Foundation:Planning:Education/MozillaCommunity|planning documentsMozilla community]]members interested in mentoring, team-teaching, or supporting academic projects.* Browse the list of projects available for students ''(add link once the project list is live)'As [[Education/EducationLeaders|leaders]] from Mozilla, academia, and industry interested in shaping Mozilla's approach to education and developing courseware, learning resources, teaching, and helping us improve Mozilla Education.
There are also Becoming a number part of [[Education/Events|events happening]] happening (Mozilla as a student or that have happened) where educator is much easier when you can meet with people involved in don't do it alone: Mozilla Educationis based on community participation. To make it easier to get started, we have a number of ways to communicate with us:
== 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)''* [http://commonspace.wordpress.com/2009/02/18/interview-pascal-finette-students-and-open-innovation/ Mozilla Labs Design Challenge]: Three week online course for user interface design students. ''(applications: March 1 / course starts: March 19)''* [[Education/EduCourse|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 [[Education/LearningMap|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. * [[Education/Courseware|Course-friendly materials]]** [[Education/Courseware#Course_outlines|Course outlines]]** [[Education/Courseware#Videos|Videos]]** [[Education/Courseware#Slides|Slides]]** [[Education/Courseware#Teaching tips|Teaching tips]]* [[Education/Learning|Other Mozilla learning resources]] for students and educators Unless otherwise indicated all Mozilla Education materials are available for reuse, redistribution, and remixing under the [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution license] (CC-BY). :'''Featured courseware:''' Seneca's [http://zenit.senecac.on.ca/wiki/index.php/Real_World_Mozilla Real World Mozilla], a one week crash course on Mozilla culture and technology. == Communication and Community == Becoming a part of Mozilla as a student or educator is much easier when you don't do it alone: Mozilla is based on community participation. To make it easier to get started, we have a number of ways to communicate: # [irc://irc.mozilla.org/education #education] on the Mozilla IRC network. You can learn about IRC and how to use it in the Mozilla context [[Education/Learning/Irc |here]].
# [http://education.mozilla.org/planet/ Planet Mozilla Education] is a blog planet, which aggregates the blogs of students and educators working with Mozilla, as well as Mozilla community members who are mentoring or otherwise involved with our education partners. If you would like to have your blog's feed added to the planet, please read [[Education/Blogging|these instructions]]
# The education.mozilla (TODO: link this when [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=477812 bug 477812] is closed) newsgroup and mailing list is a good place for questions
== Get Involved ==
Mozilla is a global open source community with a rich technical diversity. Its products are used by hundreds of millions of people around the world in many different languages. The size and complexity of Mozilla can seem overwhelming to new contributors, and especially to students, who are still learning many of the skills necessary to work at this scale. However, this also makes Mozilla a good choice for those seeking to do real-world project work.
===Why should academics consider working on Mozilla?===
* Mozilla's source code is freely available for study, improvement, and extension. Students and educators can work on and with the code without having to sign restrictive contracts or non-disclosure agreements.
* Mozilla uses many different technologies from C/C++ to JavaScript, Python to XML, and every open web technology imaginable. There are all different levels and types of involvement that are possible. Everything from software engineering to user interface design to technical documentation to marketing to translation are possible, along with many other types of involvement.
* Small improvements are valued along with large ones. Projects come in all shapes and sizes.
* Mozilla's products work on every major platform, from Windows to Linux to Mac, as well as mobile devices. As such, leveraging a student's or school's knowledge of a particular platform, operating system, or API is possible.
* The culture of Mozilla is built on peer review and collaboration. When a student completes work to fix a bug or add a feature, the code is reviewed by Mozilla. This means that there is a built-in mechanism for students to get feedback, for educators to insure that students' work is technically sound (i.e., you don't have to understand all of Mozilla to have your students working on it).
* Mozilla is an interesting mix of very old and very new technologies. For those wishing to study and gain experience with software maintenance, Mozilla is an excellent case study. At the same time, others can focus on the latest additions to the web and get experience innovating with new techniques. Both are going on at the same time.
* Mozilla creates world-class software that is used by hundreds of millions of people around the world. When a student can contribute to these products while still in school, she builds her resume and gains valuable experience that is hard to gain in other ways.
===Our Goal===
A primary goal of Mozilla Education is to make it easy to match students/educators looking for potential projects with the Mozilla community and real Mozilla project work. The following guidelines are given to help facilitate this, and to make how to get involved.
We believe that by making students into contributors, instead of having them play in a sandbox, we can better enable them to do real work and gain experience.
=== Students ===
* [[Education/Projects/StudentGuidelines|Guidelines for students]]
* List of active student projects
:'''Featured project:''' description of active student project. changes weekly.
=== Educators ===
* [[Education/Projects/EducatorGuidelines|Guidelines for educators]]
* [[Education/Courseware|Courseware]] you can re-use and build on
* [[Education/LearningMap|Learning map]] of Mozilla-related courses
:'''Featured courses:''' description of course happening somewhere
=== Mozilla Contributors ===
* [[Education/Projects/MozillaGuidelines|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 [[Education/Site/NamingConventions|site naming conventions]].
Unless otherwise indicated all Mozilla Education materials are available for reuse, redistribution, and remixing under the [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution license] (CC-BY).
