Ed Lawson wrote:
primary question to me is just what should be taught in a four or five week course with classes running about 1 1/2 hrs. each? My assumption would be those who sign up are likely to be more interested in computers than most, but also unlikely to be technically proficient. Has anyone taught such a class? Know of a course outline anywhere?One of my odd jobs now is as a corporate trainer teaching Linux. The sessions I do are two-day, 9-hour cram sessions generally to folks who know computers and who, on average, know the command line and might know some Unix. With that type of student, I can zip along pretty quickly without losing people.
One question would be: what distro are you going to teach? I would reluctantly suggest Red Hat. Its GUI admin tools are more Windows-like and it's popular. If you go with Knoppix (cool idea) you have to teach Debian, which means basically no GUI admin tools and plus the complexity of explaining Knoppix compared to a typical hard drive install.
But the key is the students and what knowledge level they're coming into the class with, and also what they want to get out of the class. Are you going to have to teach BIND (Randy shudders thinking about teaching newbies reverse lookups and odd periods in BIND config files:-)? Apache? More desktop-oriented stuff (if so, what about OpenOffice with Knoppix)? Before you can worry about outlines and such you have to ID what the students are going to get out of the class and roughly what their skillset is coming in.
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