Thank you Bryan for pointing out this resource! I've started reading and am finding ideas that I can use in my classes. Very helpful! Its an easy and fun read and I highly recommend it!
Heidi On 1/7/21 9:02 AM, Bryan G. Behrenshausen wrote: > The External Email below originated from outside the University. Unless you > recognize the sender, do not click links, open attachments, or respond. > > > I recently enjoyed reading Heidi's blog post entitled "Open Source > Community and Socially Distanced Education,"[1] which offered the > following compelling line of thought: > >> [...] I've been considering how teaching a project course in a > socially distanced environment is much like creating community in an > open source project. Both require forms of asynchronous interactions. > Both require good communication skills. Both require good time > management and attention to detail. Both require some appropriate > technical background and the ability to ask accurate questions. And > both depend on the community for success. I was aware of these > similarities, but somehow having to teach in an environment where I’m > depending more often on electronic forms of communication has made this > more clear to me. I will continue to reflect on these similarities and > how I can leverage open source principles to improve student learning. > > Given this interest, I thought that perhaps folks in this community may > be interested in the latest book project from the Open Organization > community, *Human at a Distance: An Open Organization Guide to > Distributed Teamwork*.[2] The book examines how remote, distributed > teams can leverage open principles and practices—many derived from open > source communities, which have been operating successful remote > communities for decades—to create more dynamic, inclusive, and > accountable organizations. You can find the book on GitHub, along with > other volumes in the series: > > https://github.com/open-organization/open-org-distributed-work-guide/releases/tag/1.0 > > BB > > --- > [1] > https://heidiellis.wordpress.com/2020/12/29/open-source-community-and-socially-distanced-education/ > [2] https://theopenorganization.org/books/ > > _______________________________________________ > tos mailing list > tos@teachingopensource.org > http://lists.teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos > TOS website: http://teachingopensource.org/ _______________________________________________ tos mailing list tos@teachingopensource.org http://lists.teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos TOS website: http://teachingopensource.org/
