[UCLP] Restarting the Ubuntu Learning project

[Vantrax]

Happy to see this getting rebooted.

Hopefully we can get a little more traction and focus!

-Matthew Lye

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Guidance, not knowledge, and outcome, not disposition.
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On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 2:01 AM, Elizabeth Krumbach <lyz at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> 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
>
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