Hi Folks, I draw your attention to the (somewhat defunct) group of folks interested in teaching materials:
http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/Teaching_Materials_Project And how does this relate to the existing text? http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/Textbook Just wanting to make sure that we don't reinvent the wheel. And yes, count me in. Heidi -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tom Callaway Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2014 1:53 PM To: Discussions about Teaching Open Source Subject: Re: [TOS] Creation of open source curriculum, open invitation On 07/02/2014 12:41 PM, Matt Jadud wrote: > Hi Joseph, > > I'm interested (in a way), but it sounds like you might have > conflicting goals. > > 1. A textbook is an artefact that brings a lot of words together. It > is "content." Books *sometimes* imply a curriculum. > > 2. A curriculum (or course, module, etc.) is a value-, goal-, and > objective-driven educational process specification that has many > design facets that are not easily enumerated as "content." Hi Matt, you're absolutely right. One of the things that we've heard in our investigation on how to promote open source at the university level is that in some places, a textbook is a useful artifact to accelerate the timetable for having a curriculum (or course, module). We want to built a core set of content (in an open source project) around the core ideals of how open source works. Structuring that content with the explicit goal of generating a textbook will hopefully enable and empower people to setup courses and curriculum in their schools, around a (hopefully) standard reference text. I do think that we want to build out beyond the "textbook", but we're starting there. We're definitely planning to empower this community to go beyond that (and to take the bits of our content that they see as useful and fork them and build other amazing things with them). This is also not the only place that Red Hat wants to participate in and invest in. We believe in POSSE, and we believe in the value of active learning. We _hope_ that this content (whether in textbook format or simply incorporated into existing material) will simplify the task of delivering an engaging learning experience. One of the other things that we heard was that course creation was very personal, very individual, at least for the majority of successful ones, that it involved the passion and talents of the educator creating an experience that they knew worked (even if always being refined/tweaked/overhauled). I did not want to be so arrogant as to state that it would be possible/successful for us to create an entire "prepackaged" course on Teaching Open Source (tm) that would be applicable. It seemed more logical (to me) to start with the idea of generating (and merging existing) common reference material ("the textbook") and providing a community space for educators to discuss how they've built successful classes/seminars/experiences around that. Thanks, ~tom == ¸.·´¯`·.´¯`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸><(((º> OSAS @ Red Hat University Outreach || Fedora Special Projects || Fedora Legal _______________________________________________ tos mailing list [email protected] http://lists.teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos
