Learning/2015

The Plan

Mozilla Learning in 2015
http://mzl.la/mozilla_learning_2015

• ^ Start here. The high-level plan.
  • Mozilla Learning 2015 Strategic Plan https://wiki.mozilla.org/images/f/f6/Learning2015StrategicPlan-v0.5.pdf
  • Mozilla Learning Presentation https://wiki.mozilla.org/images/6/69/MoFo_Staff_Meeting.pdf

• What is this page? This page includes high-level and detailed plans and requirements for the Mozilla Foundation's 2015 key initiatives: Webmaker, Mentor Networks, and a new Leaders and Fellows initiative.

Executive summary

• Consolidate, improve and focus what we’ve been building for the last few years:
  • Improve - and grow -- our local mentor programs (Hive, Maker Party, etc).
  • Build up an engaged user base for Webmaker, both mobile and desktop.
  • Prototype a simple leadership development program, test w/ fellows and ReMo.
• Make each of our products and programs succeed in their own right while crafting a bigger vision for Mozilla Learning.

1) Webmaker

PRODUCT

• Plan https://wiki.mozilla.org/Webmaker/2015/Product
• Presentation http://mzl.la/product_planning

Focused on learners and makers. Grow our base of engaged users. Lower barriers to participation. Emphasize mobile. Build community features that lead to more sustained involvement. Add online mentoring into the product. Work with Engagement Team to market to individual learners and the public. Experiment w. integrating Webmaker into Firefox and Firefox OS (aka "MakerFox.")

2) Mentor Networks

PROGRAM

• Hives https://wiki.mozilla.org/Webmaker/2015/Mentors
• Clubs https://wiki.mozilla.org/Webmaker/2015/Mentors/Clubs

Focused on teachers and mentors. The ground game. Local organizing. Grow events, clubs and hives. Move and use the parts of the product that work -- uncouple the parts that don't. "teach.webmaker.org" as a global hub. Continue building curriculum and credentialing. Teach digital skills, web literacy, open ethos -- whether our tools or others'. Work with Engagement Team on "sales" into partnerships with access to lots of mentors and teachers. Keep events platform and badges platform. Give local clubs and hives their own web presence.

• Online plan https://teach.etherpad.mozilla.org/requirements
• Curriculum plan https://wiki.mozilla.org/Webmaker/Curriculum
• Badges plan https://etherpad.mozilla.org/badges2015plan

3) Leaders & Fellows

LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT

• https://wiki.mozilla.org/Webmaker/2015/Leaders

Focused on leaders and fellows. Develop leaders to protect the open web. Build a long-term plan for a Mozilla leadership development program. Roll in great work from Fellowship programs -- Open News, Science Lab, Policy. Not all of it needs to fit here -- but find points of connection and wider theme / story. Lay the groundwork for Mozilla's global, community-based learning and leadership arm.

Supporting Documents

• 2015 Mozilla-wide plan -- How this fits into the bigger Mozilla picture http://mzl.la/mozilla_2015
• 2015 Risks, Tensions and Questions https://etherpad.mozilla.org/learning2015
• 2015 Marketing Plan https://foundation.etherpad.mozilla.org/webmakermarketing2015
• 2015 Partner & Funder Analysis https://foundation.etherpad.mozilla.org/2015-pipeline-analysis
• 2015 Key Partners and Campaigns https://wiki.mozilla.org/Webmaker/2015/Partners