Vision
- What we're building. Why. How it fits into the overall picture.
Goals
- Improve impact of — and value to — Mozilla mentor networks. Dramatically increase number of mentors by
- adding value to established mentors teaching in external contexts, and
- adding online mentoring in product (product and mentor teams)
- Grow our ground game. Sustain and grow Hive Learning Networks and launch Webmaker Clubs to grow our ground game.
- [ Quality of teaching and learning ?] Is there a goal around quality of learning? Quality of teaching?
Before & After
- Before. Where do we stand now?
- After. What this will look like in Dec 2015?
Hive
- Mozilla stewards ‘Hive Learning Networks’ in 15 cities at various stages of development. They include local communities of teachers, mentors, schools, libraries, museums, etc. committed to promoting web literacy and new approaches to learning.
- Mozilla currently runs Hive networks in New York, Chicago, Toronto, Chattanooga and Kansas City. Nascent networks are emerging in the U.K., Bangalore, Seattle and San Francisco. There are also Hive networks not operated directly by Mozilla but which are a part of the global network.
Metrics
- Ground game. Sustain and grow Hive Learning Networks. Launch Webmaker Clubs to grow ground game.
- Increase # of learning events by [? x ?]% each month starting in Q2. (Baseline = 250/month)
- Quality of learning
- 10% of MEU acquire a relevant badge
- Quality of teaching. Badges to mentors and educators who demonstrate ability to teach effectively and creatively
- Increase # of Webmaker and Hive educator badges by [? x ?]% each month starting in Q2. (Baseline = 200/month)
- Impact. Dramatically increase number of mentors. Add value to established mentors teaching in external contexts. Add online mentoring in product. (Product + Mentor Teams)
- Product team: Increase % of users “mentoring” within Webmaker to 4% of MAU. (Baseline = 0.57%)
- Mentor team: ___
Key Initiatives
Summary
- Create curriculum and materials to help people mentor and teach better (value).
- Recruit more partners to increase reach and scope of networks (impact).
- Add more Hive cities, including in Asia and Africa (value and impact).
- Evolve Maker Party into year-round activity through Webmaker Clubs (impact).
- Build on 2014 to improve and maintain hubs for teaching and learning (value and impact)
- webmaker.org - Sharpen and consolidate education targeted content via teach.webmaker.org
- Hive Community building - empower more people to start Hive Learning Communities via documentation and support (hivelearningnetworks.org)
- Training - Expand and improve both online and in-person trainings
Hive Networks
Target audience: Advanced teacher and mentor individuals and organizations
Launch Hive Global as a team that will:
- Grow # of Hive cities from 15 to 25. Particularly in Asia and Africa (Bangalore and Mombasa).
- Support MacArthur Foundation Cities of Learning initiative. Get teachers and mentors involved by establishing credentials that translate into career and college readiness through civic partnerships.
- Set up a Hive Lab model. Get teachers and mentors developing digital literacy tools and curriculum.
- Develop a set of Hive badges to recognize and motivate mentors.
- Document the Hive model. So interested groups can test out Hive ideas in new cities.
- Deepen connection with existing Mozilla and Mozilla-aligned networks. Like Open Science, Policy and ReMo.
- Build off recent success stories. (e.g., Hive Pittsburgh launched Digital Corps to train people to teach webmaking. Hive Bangalore used webmaker clubs to draw interest from other partners and groups around a broader digital literacy network.)
Mentor Community
Target audience: professional educators and advanced mentors
In 2014 we built a community of ~10k teachers and mentors to develop, deliver and promote Webmaker. In 2015, we'll provide more structure and value to these lead users.
We'll do this by:
- Evolve Maker Party into a year-round Webmaker Clubs program
- Improve curriculum to increase the value of what they teach
- Offer Mozilla badges that recognize our most talented mentors
- Use the community as lab. As part of ‘radical participation,’ build channels that turn our mentor community into a lab that helps develop and test new Webmaker software and content.
- Use and expand webmaker.org. As a hub for our teacher and mentor audience. With better P2P communications tools / usage. And better email communication and recognition to mentors.
- Encourage online mentoring with the Webmaker App
Milestones
- (to come)
Key Collaborations / Dependencies
Hive
- Software: depends on active integration between Hive Labs, webmaker mentors and Webmaker Product teams, for
- a) labs concept to work and
- b) Webmaker software. To benefit from feedback from mentors / educators in Hive networks.
- Webmaker.org: need better navigation, discoverability and intentionality on webmaker.org (or related properties) to reap the outcomes we want/need. Same for badges.
- Marketing: better integration with overall Webmaker marketing to tell the network/horizontal story of Mozilla’s work. (Building conditions for digital literacy to thrive through teaching and learning. And the programmatic/vertical thrust of webmaking via tools, curriculum and clubs, improving direct skills.)
- Fundraising: need to secure additional funding for 2015+. $8M is already in the pipeline from MacArthur and NSF. Also, chance to expand Hives in Africa via Mastercard in late 2015. What else?
- Continued growth of flagship Hive in NYC through three more identified funders: Pinkerton, Butler and the NYC Mayor’s funds
- Taking over stewardship of Hive Bay Area opens up diverse, local and relevant funding opportunities
- Building non-London based Hive communities in the U.K. (Kent, Manchester) through NESTA and other local funders
- Partnerships: In established Hive cities, we'll increase partnership with other networks, government bodies and providers
- Mozilla Developer Network: depends on how we better document and support pathways for entry-level developers/learner. And how we partner to guide advanced developers with interest in mentoring into the right networks.
- Open Science, Policy and News: Depends on the cross-section of aligned goals, then planning on how to work on these programs together. Examples: Better linking organizations/institutions involved in multiple programs (e.g., libraries)
- ReMo: Identify and work with reps drawn to webmaker/hive as a brand, but also for broader geo-located community-building around teaching and learning in digital literacy.
Mentors
- Software: depends on improved CRM for contributor management / email marketing. Needs to be a Mozilla-wide effort to make this better in 2015. Depends on MoFo product team for improvements to webmaker.org, including more on badges and in-platform mentoring.
- Marketing: depends on collaboration with MoCo engagement and others to running summer campaign (Maker Party+).
- Partnerships: depends partners for the growth and health of the network. Key partners in 2015 are: Coder Dojo, Digital Opportunity Trust and Hive (while hive is often not an external partner it is a large conduit and management service to large partnership base and needs to be relied on as such)
- Fundraising: needs some level of outside funding, including replacement of the $500k MacArthur funding that has gone into Maker Party for the last two years.
- Mentor Network team: depends on collaborating and working closely with staff working on broader digital literacy network activation for cultivation of new mentors, markets and programs.