mozilla/creative commons open education course - seminar 1

Open|Web|Content|Education

an online course / hacking education

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today1. welcome (schmidt)2. context (surman)3. Mozilla Education (hecker)4. CC Learn (bissell)5. course overview (schmidt)

welcome

(schmidt)

schmidt

surman

hecker

bissell

context

(surman)

goal:

helping educators learn open content, technology and

pedagogical skills they can use in their teaching

why?

why?

students live + learn on the web

why?

why?

we need to teach like the web

building blocks1. (open)content2. (open)technology3. (open)pedagogy

building blocks1. (open)content2. (open)technology3. (open)pedagogy

this course is aboutthese building blocks

open edu : 10,000 feetSharing. Collaborating. Remixing. Informal and formal learning.E.g. OpenCourseWare. Wikipedia. Utah Open High School. Mozilla @ Seneca. Peer 2 Peer University.

www.capetowndeclaration.org

why do we care?Promote openness, participation and distributed decision making as a core part of Internet life.

why do we care?Promote openness, participation and distributed decision making as a core part of Internet life.

Education is critical to this.

why do we care?Also, an experiment

why do we care?Also, an experiment1. Share our skills2. Bring in new ideas3. Find more allies

why do we care?Also, an experiment1. Share our skills2. Bring in new ideas3. Find more allies 4. And have fun

Mozilla Education

(hecker)

Mozilla Education =open education in a Mozilla context

Mozilla Education goals

create learning opportunities around Mozilla technologies and practicessupport new generation of Mozilla

community membershelp drive new wave of participatory,

student-led learning

building a global community of Mozilla educators

build on Mozilla curriculum pioneered at Seneca College

support faculty and students incorporating Mozilla into

coursework

integrate academic participants into broader Mozilla community

getting involved in Mozilla Education

education.mozilla.orgIRC: #education on irc.mozilla.org

education@lists.mozilla.orgDave Humphrey <david.humphrey@senecac.

on.ca>

Creative Commons

(bissell)

Creative Commons ccLearn

Minimize

legal, technical, socialbarriers to

sharing and reuse of educational materials.

Our mission focuses on ways to improve the opportunities for and quality of education for everyone:

Teach people about OER. Solve problems. Build and diversify community.Explore better pedagogical models.Empower teachers and learners.

We embrace some overarching principles for engaged pedagogies -

these are not new, but become almost inevitable (in a positive way) when embracing the benefits of

open licenses,open technologies,open collaboratories.

Crucial considerationsConstant, formative feedback.Educate for skills and capacities, not rote knowledge.Leverage the available human and material capital effectively.Consider all of the fundamental building blocks of a participatory learning system simultaneously.Enjoy your learning!

the course

(schmidt)

6 1/2 weeks1. intro context 2. open content case-studies3. open tech basics4. open content licensing5. open tech on the horizon6. open pedagogy round-table More sessions for project discussion and feedback if needed

blueprinting

how it worksglass-house everyone can look inweekly seminars with interesting people (recordings)google group discussion social bookmarkingdifferent week, same ...

prep for next seminarblueprint pipeline check wiki (and email) for details

blueprinting

?idea -> blueprint -> protoype -> project!

blueprintingindividual ideas group projects

geeks and educatorscommon interests

took a stab at grouping feed into ongoing things:

Mozilla Education portalFirefox plug-insPeer2Peer University

next stepsdecide on groups!start sketchingideas more important than detailsa picture ... enough detail so you can start building

what does it look like?template on the wiki create a wiki page or host it elsewhereblueprint fundamentals

open contentopen techopen pedagogy

some more important than others

idea exampleI'd like to examine how these tools could help educators to assess largely digitized assignments (like blogs). I currently use a wiki to collect and evaluate my student's blogs. Ideally, I'd like some mechanism to bookmark and easily assess digital works in a way that would provide fields for assessment criteria as well as highlighting items on the page for the student. I'm especially interested in Open Source tools as an alternative to clunky, top down, proprietary edu ware that currently dominates our institutions.

idea exampleMy initial project idea is to design (and possibly develop) a lightweight aggregator for following student blogs. I have been organizing several open online courses and found out that I need something more than plain RSS reader to follow the course. Maybe it can be developed with Yahoo Pipes.

discussion