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''[Most if not all of the * The Real World Mozilla and Mozilla Developer Resource Kit materials on the proposed site would be created as a byproduct of the other proposed activitiesdeveloped at Seneca. These * Moodle-based course materials could also be made available and promoted developed through the URJC courses in Madrid.* Suggestions on how to use existing [http://enresources like developer.wikipediamozilla.org/wiki/Open_educational_resources OER] portals. The and the Mozilla Education slide library would also provide in educational contexts. * Information on how to get started as a window into the other student or professor interested in Mozilla education activities listed above(e.g. Seneca project pool, campus reps program, etc.]'')
=== Accreditation All the materials in this library would be openly licensed so that students and professors can use or adapt for Participation ===their own courses. They will would also be able to upload or link to their own Mozilla materials.
→2009 pilots and experiments
Prior to 2009, the primary Mozilla activity related to education was financial and staff support of Mozilla-related activities at Seneca College. Our proposed plan for 2009 is to expand the scope of Foundation activities through a series of pilots and experiments related to Mozilla education. These include:
* Evolving the '''Expanding Mozilla-related mentorship, online community and student project sourcing resources developed infrastructure at Seneca ''' to support non-Seneca faculty and studentselsewhere, making it easier for more people to 'study with Mozilla' and to bring the Seneca experience back to start their own institutionssmall scale courses.* '''Establishing a prototype Mozilla course at a European university as a first step ''' to see whether it's possible to creating a second instance of a effective run Mozilla education program within a programs in formal academic setting. Ideally this will be financially self sustainingsettings other than Seneca.* Moving beyond the formal academic environment by reaching out to self-directed learners'''Developing online Mozilla Community Courses''', including new providing Mozilla volunteers, existing Mozilla community members desiring and other interested learners with an easy way to know more about study topics beyond their direct experiencelike community management, open web technologies and Mozilla-interested students at institutions not currently offering Mozilla-related coursescommunity marketing.* Piloting an 'education.mozilla.org' site (or section of an existing mozilla.org site) as a central place for course-friendly Mozilla resources and other materials relevant to education. The aim here is to This will leverage and promote existing and emerging Mozilla Education materials.
Most of these activities are very Mozilla-specific -- our immediate goal is to better understand how Mozilla can contribute and benefit in the education space. However, the aim is not to do this alone or in isolation. [http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk/ OSS Watch], [http://www.redhat.com/solutions/education/academy/ Red Hat] and many others are also trying to make links between open source and higher education. We plan to work closely with these other initiatives wherever possible, collectively helping to create new participatory learning models based on involvement in open source communities.
=== education.mozilla.org ===
The [[Foundation:Planning:Education:EMO|education.mozilla.org]] (EMO) initiative will create a Mozilla Education library as a special section on a mozilla.org site (or, if warranted, a standalone site), offering openly licensed Mozilla-related educational materials that students and professors can use in their courses, pointers . This would make it easy to Mozilla-related educational activities, and other information useful to anyone interested in Mozilla and education.find resources like:
''[We should have Most if not all of the materials on the proposed site would be created as a discussion about whether we want to do something around working with academic partners to byproduct of the other proposed activities. These materials could also be made available and promoted through existing [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_educational_resources OER] portals. The Mozilla Education library would also provide formal educational accreditation for things people have learned by working on a window into the other Mozilla projects. There is interest in this area from a number of frontseducation activities listed above.]''
=== Related activities ===
* The nascent "[http://www.teachingopensource.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page Teaching Open Source]" site and related efforts to provide a cross-project view of resources and activities related to open source and education. ''[Emerging from Seneca.]]''
* The proposed FOSS Education project under the auspices of OSS Watch at the University of Oxford.
* The "Integrating FOSS into the undergraduate curriculum" project funded by the National Science Foundation.
Our plan is to track and where appropriate participate in these projectswhere we can add value, in order to take advantage of general resources that can be leveraged in a Mozilla-specific context, make contacts and alliances that might be useful to Mozilla, and promote the general topic of open source and education. We have already agreed to sit on the advisory committee of FOSS Education at Oxford.
== Resources and financial setting ==
