Education/LearningInTheOpen/Topics
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Topics
Everyone participating in a Learning in the Open course would get a core grounding in basic concepts, along the following lines:
- Intro: What makes the Internet open?
- Transparency
- Remixability
- Participation
- Distributed decision making.
- Topic 1: Open content
- Remixing
- Licensing
- Business models
- Local and/or audience-specific examples of open content.
- Topic 2: Open web technology
- Innovating without asking permission
- Practical hands-on experience with open web technologies (JetPack?)
- Topic 3: Working in the open
- Mozilla (and other open source) community model
- Local examples of people working in the open
- (What else?)
Courses could be customized to address topics specific to each audience:
- Relevant software tools and online services (e.g., tools for transcoding video to open formats)
- Particular legal and business questions (e.g., local laws governing filming places and people)
- Relevant online communities, resources, and classes
Particular emphasis would be put on audience-specific issues relating to reusing others' works and creating work in collaboration with others.
Some open questions relating to topic selection:
- How much time should we spend on general philosophical issue (e.g., importance of participatory activities) vs. practical issues (e.g., what online services can work with open video formats)?
- How much background knowledge can we assume, especially in audience-specific courses (e.g., will attendees in a music-specific course already know about open tools for recording music)?
- How much emphasis should we place on true collaborative work vs. simply re-mixing the work of others, especially for particular audiences (e.g., how important is true collaboration to digital artists)?
