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== What is Mozilla Education? == | == What is Mozilla Education? == | ||
Open source projects help contributors learn incredibly useful skills: how to code, how to collaborate, and how to lead in a global community. Despite this, formal links between higher education and open source projects like Mozilla are rare. College and university students who want to take advantage of the resources and mentorship that come with open source development have had to do so on their own time. | |||
Mozilla Education aims to change this. We want to build systematic links between Mozilla and the world of education. The goal is to provide content, mentorship and community infrastructure that makes it easier for students, professors and universities to contribute to and learn with Mozilla. This wiki serves as a hub to enable these activities. | |||
Mozilla Education is about more than teaching computer programming skills or even Mozilla specific technologies. Mozilla has a social mission to make openness, participation and distributed decision-making more common experiences in Internet life. Bringing web scale collaboration to the classroom is an extension of that mission. We hope that using open source methods to teach will help to drive '''a new wave of participatory, student-led learning in fields like computer science, design and business'''. | |||
We can help educational institutions interested in becoming active in our community and having their students work on Mozilla related projects. | |||
See [[Foundation:Planning:Education|planning documents]] for more background, and the [[Education/Events|events page]] for information about upcoming events. | |||
== Mozilla in the classroom == | |||
Open source development is a rich, participatory learning experience. Students gain real world experience working on world class software alongside experienced developers while they are still undergraduates. But what actually happens depends on where students, educators and Mozillians decide to go. | |||
Although Mozilla Education is working to develop the courseware and materials necessary for teaching, there is no one way to teach a Mozilla course. There are projects in build and release engineering, unit testing, platform engineering and more. Mozilla presents a large surface area in terms of projects that are needed by the community. Mozilla Education attempts to make the process of integrating open source development into the classroom easier by providing expertise and documentation. But what is important is that students work on projects that excite the community and invite collaboration. | |||
Schools around the world are already using Mozilla in the classroom. (See [http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=109565506490171378380.00046966d9042caa207e6&ll=4.307816,12.201219&spn=169.953166,360&z=1 this map].) | |||
[[Image:Mozilla_in_classroom_map.png|frame|none|[http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=109565506490171378380.00046966d9042caa207e6&ll=4.307816,12.201219&spn=169.953166,360&z=1 Interactive map of schools using Mozilla]]] | |||
== Get Involved == | == Get Involved == | ||
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===Student Projects=== | ===Student Projects=== | ||
Here is the list of bugs with the "student-project" keyword: | |||
* [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&keywords_type=allwords&keywords=student-project&bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=REOPENED&chfieldto=Now&order=Bug+Number Available student projects, sorted by bug number] - [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=REOPENED&chfieldto=Now&field-1-0-0=bug_status&field-1-1-0=keywords&keywords=student-project&keywords_type=allwords&query_format=advanced&remaction=&type-1-0-0=anyexact&type-1-1-0=allwords&value-1-0-0=UNCONFIRMED%2CNEW%2CREOPENED&value-1-1-0=student-project&title=Bug%20List&ctype=atom atom feed] | |||
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&keywords_type=allwords&keywords=student-project&bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=REOPENED&chfieldto=Now&order=Last+Changed Available student projects, sorted by Last Changed] - [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_file_loc=&bug_file_loc_type=allwordssubstr&bug_id=&bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=REOPENED&bugidtype=include&chfieldfrom=&chfieldto=Now&chfieldvalue=&email1=&email2=&emailassigned_to1=1&emailassigned_to2=1&emailqa_contact2=1&emailreporter2=1&emailtype1=exact&emailtype2=exact&field-1-0-0=bug_status&field-1-1-0=keywords&field0-0-0=noop&keywords=student-project&keywords_type=allwords&long_desc=&long_desc_type=substring&query_format=advanced&remaction=&short_desc=&short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&status_whiteboard=&status_whiteboard_type=allwordssubstr&type-1-0-0=anyexact&type-1-1-0=allwords&type0-0-0=noop&value-1-0-0=UNCONFIRMED%2CNEW%2CREOPENED&value-1-1-0=student-project&value0-0-0=&votes=&title=Bug%20List&ctype=atom atom feed] | |||
* [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&keywords_type=allwords&keywords=student-project&bug_status=ASSIGNED&chfieldto=Now&order=Bug+Number Assigned student projects] - [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=ASSIGNED&chfieldto=Now&field-1-0-0=bug_status&field-1-1-0=keywords&keywords=student-project&keywords_type=allwords&query_format=advanced&remaction=&type-1-0-0=anyexact&type-1-1-0=allwords&value-1-0-0=ASSIGNED&value-1-1-0=student-project&title=Bug%20List&ctype=atom atom feed] | |||
* [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&keywords_type=allwords&keywords=student-project&bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=VERIFIED&chfieldto=Now&order=Bug+Number Resolved student projects] | |||
==[[Education/EduCourse|EduCourse]]== | ==[[Education/EduCourse|EduCourse]]== | ||
Revision as of 19:05, 14 May 2009
What is Mozilla Education?
Open source projects help contributors learn incredibly useful skills: how to code, how to collaborate, and how to lead in a global community. Despite this, formal links between higher education and open source projects like Mozilla are rare. College and university students who want to take advantage of the resources and mentorship that come with open source development have had to do so on their own time.
Mozilla Education aims to change this. We want to build systematic links between Mozilla and the world of education. The goal is to provide content, mentorship and community infrastructure that makes it easier for students, professors and universities to contribute to and learn with Mozilla. This wiki serves as a hub to enable these activities.
Mozilla Education is about more than teaching computer programming skills or even Mozilla specific technologies. Mozilla has a social mission to make openness, participation and distributed decision-making more common experiences in Internet life. Bringing web scale collaboration to the classroom is an extension of that mission. We hope that using open source methods to teach will help to drive a new wave of participatory, student-led learning in fields like computer science, design and business.
We can help educational institutions interested in becoming active in our community and having their students work on Mozilla related projects.
See planning documents for more background, and the events page for information about upcoming events.
Mozilla in the classroom
Open source development is a rich, participatory learning experience. Students gain real world experience working on world class software alongside experienced developers while they are still undergraduates. But what actually happens depends on where students, educators and Mozillians decide to go.
Although Mozilla Education is working to develop the courseware and materials necessary for teaching, there is no one way to teach a Mozilla course. There are projects in build and release engineering, unit testing, platform engineering and more. Mozilla presents a large surface area in terms of projects that are needed by the community. Mozilla Education attempts to make the process of integrating open source development into the classroom easier by providing expertise and documentation. But what is important is that students work on projects that excite the community and invite collaboration.
Schools around the world are already using Mozilla in the classroom. (See this map.)
Get Involved
People get involved with Mozilla Education in a number of ways. We welcome you to find one or more ways to join us:
- As academics (teachers, students, professors, etc.) looking to research, teach, or work on Mozilla technologies as part of educational projects or in the classroom.
- As Mozilla community members interested in mentoring, team-teaching, or supporting academic projects.
- As leaders from Mozilla, academia, and industry interested in shaping Mozilla's approach to education and developing courseware, learning resources, teaching, and helping us improve Mozilla Education.
Becoming a part of Mozilla as a student or educator is much easier when you don't do it alone: Mozilla is based on community participation. To make it easier to get started, we have a number of ways to communicate with us:
- #education on the Mozilla IRC network. You can learn about IRC and how to use it in the Mozilla context here.
- Planet Mozilla Education is a blog planet, which aggregates the blogs of students and educators working with Mozilla, as well as Mozilla community members who are mentoring or otherwise involved with our education partners.
- The mozilla.education newsgroup and mailing list is a good place for questions
Status Meetings
Status meetings take place every Monday at 8 AM PDT (15:00 UTC until November). The current state of Mozilla Education is discussed at the these meetings, which are open to the public via telephone and IRC.
Student Projects
Here is the list of bugs with the "student-project" keyword:
- Available student projects, sorted by bug number - atom feed
- Assigned student projects - atom feed
- Resolved student projects
EduCourse
This is a six week online course where educators learn about open content licensing, open web technologies and open teaching methods. It starts April 2, 2009.
It is co-organized by Mozilla, ccLearn and P2PU. Includes interactive online talks and hands on prototyping of open learning projects.
Other Info
Please feel free to add new material and pages to this site; however please conform to our evolving site naming conventions.
Unless otherwise indicated all Mozilla Education materials are available for reuse, redistribution, and remixing under the Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution license (CC-BY).