Education/EduCourse/Outline

Week 1 - Intro

• Week 1 serves as an introduction to the course content and logistics, and clarify any questions about the projects.
• Describe course goals and intro students (Mark Surman, Frank Hecker, Ahrash Bissell, Philipp Schmidt)
• Discuss assignments, and student 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 studies (Representatives from each case-study provide feedback)
• Participants post first outlines of their projects / designs

Week 3 - Open web tech (basics) / Project review

• 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
• Participants and Mozilla/ccLearn/P2PU mentors review group projects and provide feedback

Week 4 - Licensing

• Licensing for open educational content (Seminar by Lila Bailey, ccLearn counsel)
  • Review of licensing approaches of each case

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