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* [http://zenit.senecac.on.ca/wiki/index.php/Main_Page Seneca College] in Toronto has integrated participation in Mozilla, Fedora and OpenOffice into its computer studies programs.
* The A graduate student at the [http://www.nus.sg/ National University of Singapore] has taught a [http://special.comp.nus.edu.sg/mozilla/index.php Mozilla class] loosely based on the Seneca model, and is planning another.
* Smaller, university-based software projects like [http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-87736-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html AVOIR] have grown up with significant participation from students.
* A [http://www.hfoss.org/ group] of small liberal arts institutions in the US is exploring [http://www.hfoss.org/symposium09/ integrating FOSS into the undergraduate curriculum], with support from the [http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=500025 National Science Foundation].
* ''What else? Please add additional examples.''
'''It's in this area that Mozilla Education wants to focus -- making a direct link between organized learning opportunities and the learning that comes from participating in Mozilla open source development.''' While we've already had some success in our collaborations with Seneca, we've also faced challenges:
* We haven't yet been able to replicate the Seneca model directly. The barrier to entry for this model -- the right professor, a supportive institution, local Mozilla support -- is quite high.
* Students -- or even professors -- who want to build their own credit courses around Mozilla activities don't have any easy pathway to do so. The resources that have made it possible for Seneca students to succeed -- help navigating the communityMozilla world, a supportive community of other students, a pre-selected list of useful projects to work on -- are not easily available to students not taking Seneca courses.
* While Mozilla has many [https://developer.mozilla.org/ useful] [http://www.mozilla.org/support/ learning] [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/ resources] for self-learners, there is no simple way to find materials that lend themselves to inclusion in formal courses. A number of course resources like this exist, but they are not well packaged or easy to find.
