mozilla/creative commons open education course - seminar 1
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Seminar 1 slides from the Mozilla / Creative Commons Open Education course. See course outline here: wiki.mozilla.org/Education/EduCourse/OutlineTRANSCRIPT
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
[email protected] 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