Education/EduCourse

This is the wiki page for Open|Web|Content|Education -- a six week online course where educators learn about open content licensing, open web technologies and open teaching methods.

Co-organized by Mozilla, CCLearn and P2PU. Includes interactive online talks and hands on protoyping of open learning projects. Starts on April 1, 2009 (to be confirmed).

Audience

• Educators looking for skills to help them with open teaching and learning.
• Should have some tech or content production skills already.
• Likely to come from areas like: new media, communications, design, comp studies.

Goals

• Help educators learn about open licensing, technology and teaching.
• Test and assess the online course method being developed by Mozilla Labs.
• Create awareness of Mozilla Education, CCLearn, and P2PU amongst educators.
• Gather design ideas for education.mozilla.org and other open learning projects.

Content

Week 1 - Intro

• Describe course goals and intro students
• Conversation about assignments, and individual projects
• Participants get 10 min overview of each case study (pre-recorded audio or video interview)

Week 2 - Open educational resources and case-studies

• Overview of what's happening in OER (Seminar by Ahrash Bissell, CCLearn)
• Discussion of case study projects (Representatives from each project provide feedback)
• Participants post first outlines of their projects / designs

Week 3 - Licensing

• Licensing options
  • Licensing for open educational content (Seminar by CCLearn counsel)
  • Review of licensing approaches of each case
• Project presentations and review
  • Participants and Mozilla/ccLearn/P2PU mentors review group projects and provide feedback

Week 4 - Open web tech (basics)

• What makes the web open? What makes it closed? (Seminar by Mozilla's Chris Blizzard)
  • Basic techs like JavaScript, CSS, Add ons
  • Review of how cases do and don't use open web tech

Week 5 - Open web tech (on the horizon)

• Emerging open web technologies: canvas, video tag, etc. (Seminar by someone from Mozilla labs)
  • Mozilla Labs experiments: Ubiquity, Weave, etc.
  • Brainstorm: how could cases use technologies like these?
• Project presentations and review (ctd.)
  • Participants and Mozilla/ccLearn/P2PU mentors review group projects and provide feedback

Week 6: Open learning

• Overview of approaches in participatory online learning
  • Round-table conversation with George Siemens, David Wiley, and others (facilitated by Philipp Schmidt, University of the Western Cape/ P2PU)
  • Review how cases are using participatory learning
• Final project presentations
  • Group review of all projects
• Review / closing

Case studies

We will use four existing open education projects as case studies (follow link for short descriptions) throughout:

• Mozilla@Seneca, looking at learning in a large open source community
• David Wiley: BYU open education course, where students from around the world participate online
• Jim Groom: Wordpress MU at University Mary Washington pioneers an open platform for course design

Each case study will be introduced during week one. We will then look at the licensing, technology and teaching approaches of each case as we move through the seminars.

Practial assignment

Philipp to describe

Online interaction and prep reading

• Student profiles, intro themselves in advance
• Audio interviews w/ each case study students can hear in advance
• Philipp, ideas?

Approach

• Six weeks of online interactive talks using WebEx or DimDim. Archive on video.
• Talks presented by leading people from Mozilla, CC and other allies.
• Participants use concepts from talks to develop design ideas for EdMoz site.
• Participant and presenter community and interaction via mail list and IRC.
• Same as Labs Concept Series course model (do we want a similar intake model?)

Participants Sign Up Here

If you would like to participate in this course, please sign up here. Include your name, affiliation and contact info.