Drumbeat/events/Festival/program/StateWebEducation
The State of Web Education
What are the current challenges for educating web professionals?
Summary
Chris Mills kicks the Toolshed off with an overview of the current state of web education around the world - from informal knowledge sharing to formal qualifications and everything in between. As a founding member of OWEA and creator of the Opera Web Standards Curriculum, Chris will provide an understanding of how the many different methods of learning about web standards and associated best practices all play an important part in building an open and inclusive web. (20 minutes)
Pippa Buchanan will then provide an introduction to the School of Webcraft, which is run by P2PU and Mozilla. She will share the vision and the radical ways that Webcraft plan to turn web education on it's head. (10 minutes)
Chris and Pippa will then share their experiences and perspectives on the current challenges for educators of all kinds. They will explain how anyone can get involved in making he web the best it can be - from lecturers to folk providing informal workshops or individuals that just care.
What do you want to achieve?
To gain insight into the current challenges that both people providing web education and those learning web design and development experience.
This should provide a focus and open up conversations to continue and to inspire broader and deeper discussions within the Toolshed Space throughout the Festival.
Who should come? How many? For how long?
Anyone who has learnt, taught, practices or wants to learn web design and development.
Audience size: 25 people
Duration: 50 minutes
What will they do when they get there?
Listen to Chris Mills. Take notes of things Chris forgot to say or got wrong - and then ask questions and give feedback.
Write down topics you want to talk about over the next 2 days on post-it-notes. Add these post-it-notes to the most appropriate Webcraft Toolshed session. If there are orphaned post-it notes propose a break out session, wiki page or lightning talk for further discussion.
What will you / they have at the end?
A series of questions and pressing issues to discuss over the next 2 days. A shared understanding of the issues web development education faces.