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| You can also watch Mark Surman's presenting the early vision and Plan for Mozilla Learning in Portland (December 2014) '''[https://youtu.be/pZ5w3UpwtwA here]'''. | | You can also watch Mark Surman's presenting the early vision and Plan for Mozilla Learning in Portland (December 2014) '''[https://youtu.be/pZ5w3UpwtwA here]'''. |
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| ==Lastest Discussions==
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| ===May 21st===
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| * Topics Discussed:
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| ** Who else is being, and should be involved during this planning going forward
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| ** How the thinking of the participants has evolved based on prior sessions
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| ** If we were to pick one audience or space to focus on, which one would you pick (asked all participants)
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| ** Some new frameworks and models of the world highlighted, both as it is now, and how it could be in the future
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| ** A look at where Mozilla is now (geographically)
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| ** What the participation team is working on
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| * Insights / Questions
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| ** We need to focus more on the audience going forward
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| ** Need to simplify the narrative and the communication further
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| ** Getting razor level of transparency going forward so people can follow along, and bringing in more people into the conversation
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| ** Sessions have been successful in evolving the thinking of the participants over the past weeks
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| ** There could be a tension between focusing on the various audience segments that needs to be identified, discussed and resolved, if possible
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| ** People with an affinity for us, with an affinity and interest to share and service others in the same user segment as them, with lower skills/capabilities than them
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| ** We haven’t been good at providing users that fall within this profile the tools and the structure to do this effectively
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| ** It's possible that we are so close to our stuff that we may not realize how transformative it is and miss the opportunity to put a structure around so others can build off it, use it and learn from it
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| ** Our open philosophy (providing agency to others) might be getting in the way of showing up with an opinion, a plan and thought leadership about how to enable our contributors be more effectively at teaching and learning
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| * Reference Documents: ''Coming Soon''
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| ==Up Next==
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| * Looking at some of the other players operating in the same landscape
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| * Discussing what needs to be true within mozilla and in the world for us to work on our objectives
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| ==Previous Discussions==
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| ===May 8th===
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| * Topics discussed:
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| ** Strategy group participants defining their role in the process
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| ** Participants discussing the biggest unanswered questions about where Mozilla is headed
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| ** Mark revisiting and defining the vision for the participants
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| ** Discussing SWOT analysis of existing Mozilla programs
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| * Insights / Questions:
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| ** More local, proactive participation may be necessary to make the outputs of various programs like Webmaker more relevant more widely
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| ** Concern about volunteer fatigue - few volunteers own many of our community led initiatives / programs
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| ** The programs are well placed to connect with each other to improve upon Mozilla’s current offering. We haven’t been doing that very well so far. There is a definite opportunity to connect our programs together more effectively in the future
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| * Reference Documents: ''Coming Soon''
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| ===May 15th===
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| * Topics Discussed:
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| ** Define a template / overview of strategy components that need to be defined
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| 1. (a) What are our broad aspirations for our organization, and (b) the concrete goals against which we can measure our progress?
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| 2. Across the potential field available to us, where will we choose to play and not play?
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| 3. In our chosen place to play, how will we choose to win against the competitors there?
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| 4. What capabilities are necessary to build and maintain to win in our chosen manner?
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| 5. What management systems are necessary to operate to build and maintain the key capabilities?
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| ** Defining the role of the working group(s) participants, the decision making process, and timelines
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| ''"This group is advising on what goes into the overall plan / framework
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| Members of this group are also responsible for specific pillars of the plan via working groups (e.g. Mozilla Fellows Working Group)
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| Mark is final decision maker regarding what goes into the plan"''
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| ** Participants looked at the existing Mozilla Learning plan, and discussed what patterns they saw
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| ** Discussed the various audience segments, which ones are served by our existing programs, which ones we would like to serve with Mozilla Academy (some or all?)
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| * Insights / Questions:
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| ** When in this planning process would we be looking at the feasibility of the plan with respect to funding?
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| ** How do you create a community of excellence that isn't exclusive?
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| ** Are we defining the movement or the “school” that trains the leaders of the movement?
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| ** We want to build a virtuous circle where one program coherently enables another
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| ** Open source may be our big differentiator when it comes to positioning our offerings to the users
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| ** The ability to hold on to both, the political movement, and the broad market users, has been a key strength and differentiator for Mozilla in the past
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| ** Our bias is to do as much as we can, and design machines that feed the virtuous circle
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| ** We have to simplify both in description and mechanics of getting this done
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| Building on [http://webmaker.org/ Webmaker], [http://hivelearningnetworks.org/ Hive] and our fellowship programs, Mozilla Learning is a portfolio of products and programs that help these citizens of the web learn the most important skills of our age: the ability to read, write and participate in the digital world. These programs also help people become mentors and leaders: people committed to teaching others and to shaping the future of the web. | | Building on [http://webmaker.org/ Webmaker], [http://hivelearningnetworks.org/ Hive] and our fellowship programs, Mozilla Learning is a portfolio of products and programs that help these citizens of the web learn the most important skills of our age: the ability to read, write and participate in the digital world. These programs also help people become mentors and leaders: people committed to teaching others and to shaping the future of the web. |
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| ===In 3 Years===
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| By 2017, Mozilla has established itself as the best place to learn the skills and knowhow people need to use the web in their lives, careers and organizations. We will have:
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| * Educated and empowered users by creating tools and curriculum for learning how to read, write and participate on the web.
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| * Built leaders, everywhere by growing a global cadre of educators, researchers, coders, etc. who do this work with us. We’ve helped them lead and innovate.
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| * Established the community as the classroom by improving and explaining our experiential learning model: learn by doing and innovating with Mozilla.
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| At the end of these three years, we may have established something like a “Mozilla University / Academy” a learning side of Mozilla that can sustain us for many decades. Or, we may simply have a number of successful learning programs. Either way, we’ll be having an impact.
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| ===In 2015===
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| Our focus in 2015 will be to consolidate, improve and focus what we’ve been building for the last few years. In particular we will:
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| * Improve and grow our local learning networks (Hive, Maker Party, etc.).
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| * Build up an engaged user base for Webmaker product on mobile and desktop.
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| * Prototype a leadership development program, and test it with fellows and ReMo.
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| The short term goal is to make each of our products and programs succeed in their own right in 2015. However, we also plan to craft a bigger Mozilla Learning vision that these products and programs can feed into overtime.
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| * There will be a significant number of new opportunities for engagement and involvement starting in July as we move beyond scaffolding mode | | * There will be a significant number of new opportunities for engagement and involvement starting in July as we move beyond scaffolding mode |
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| == Parallel Working Groups == | | == Working Groups == |
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| | === Mozilla Academy Working Group (chair: Mark) === |
| | [[[https://wiki.mozilla.org/Learning/Strategy/Minutes]] |
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| === Mozilla Fellows Working Group (chair: Dave) === | | === Mozilla Fellows Working Group (chair: Dave) === |
| * Build a shared definition of what it means to be a fellow at Mozilla | | * Build a shared definition of what it means to be a fellow at Mozilla |