[UCLP] Restarting the Ubuntu Learning project

[Elizabeth Krumbach]

Hello everyone!

The Ubuntu Learning project[0] has been quiet for some time, but we’re
hopeful that your continued subscription to the mailing list means you
are still interested in the efforts outlined in our initiative to
develop class material for students learning about Ubuntu.

In order to get things going with this project again, I wanted to
quickly re-introduce myself and my own current visions for the
project.

I work as a Linux systems administrator by trade, but in my free time
I volunteer with a non-profit that deploys Ubuntu in schools and
earlier this year I had the opportunity to travel with another
non-profit to Ghana to deploy Ubuntu and train the educators there.
Through these projects, it’s become clear to me that the development
of training materials is essential for Ubuntu and other free software
to be successful in these deployments.

Now, when it comes to this project one of the things I feel most
strongly about is that we are not a documentation writing project.
Documentation writing is well-covered by the Ubuntu Documentation[1]
and Ubuntu Manual[2] teams. In places where documentation is lacking
in these projects we should take it upon ourselves to volunteer our
time to improve their source material. I hope that several members of
our project go on to make significant contributions to these projects.

So what do we do? We write the material for teachers to teach. Think
of the Ubuntu Documentation or Manual as the textbook and what we’re
doing is the supplemental lesson plan, learning objectives,
assessments and other tools that the teacher receives with the
textbook.  We’re also be working to put material in the Moodle
teaching framework.

To help us with this, Jasna Benčić has put together a document that
gets deep into the methodologies that we should be using when
developing course material. Her document is available here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pLqSuStmh5PGfiUBfamPQIYbUVSQDCrvbKX2J2VBFAI/edit?pli=1

Additionally, we’d also like to assemble a small team to write our
first course which can then be used as an example for future ones.

So please reply to this mail to get this discussion rolling or if
you’re interested in getting involved with this initial small team to
develop our first class!

[0] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Learning
[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DocumentationTeam
[2] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-manual

-- 
Elizabeth Krumbach // Lyz // pleia2
http://www.princessleia.com