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Ubuntu Community Learning Project

Community Education Resources and Courses

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Next Meeting: 9pm EDT July 20th / 01:00 UTC July 21th in #ubuntu-meeting

Project Outline

The project's goal is to make it easier for organizations and users to adopt Ubuntu and reduce the current attrition rate for new users through better awareness and community education. We intend to do this by working with existing teams to build and maintain an interactive learning environment(s) to support teaching all aspects of the Ubuntu Ecosystem that will allow the community to undertake self paced and instructor lead teaching in conjunction with IRC based training, question times, challenges, and other interactive teaching methods.

We have recognized a need in the community for consolidated training that is easy to find, and can be marketed collectively by the community and teams conducting training to any users seeking training. We have also seen evidence of high attrition rates in new users both in the Ubuntu Forums and in the #ubuntu IRC channel that we wish to rectify.

Our initial goal is to provide four programs for the new user, the sysadmin, marketing, and a stream for someone who wants to contribute to Ubuntu. These idea's have been based on new user feedback, requests to the Ubuntu Forums Beginners Team, to the Classroom Team and to Physical LoCo Classrooms. Our proposed course programs can be found in the sections below.

Our intention is to release all materials under a Creative Commons license (the exact terms will be decided soon), with the intention to allow case by case waivers to allow recognized educational institutions to reuse the work. This has not been finalized and any objections will be taken into consideration.

If you have suggestions, please contact one of the project leaders listed below.

Affiliates & Key People

General Learning/Education projects the Learning team is currently working with:

List of the project board members:

BodhiZazen: UCLP Board Member & Leader of the Ubuntu Forums Beginners Team

Charles Profitt: UCLP Board Member & Leader of the Ubuntu Forums Beginners Team Education Focus Group

Martin Owens: UCLP Board Member & Leader of Massachusetts LoCo

Elizabeth Krumbach: UCLP Board Member & Leader of the Ubuntu Classroom Team

Matthew Lye: UCLP Board Member & Lead Contact for the Ubuntu Community Learning Project

Course Creation Process

We are currently requesting community input on the five programs we are planning on having at the end of Stage 1. The community training will be a continual process which is why we are marking the development in stages. We are also preparing a program for learning how to use Moodle and teach Ubuntu. Please feel free to select an area you are interested in and input training ideas for courses you would like to see in the following programs:

Learning/UbuntuDesktopTopics

Learning/SystemAdminTopics

Learning/DeveloperTopics

Learning/AdvocateTopics

Learning/TeachingTopics

NOTE: A launchpad account is required to register for the wiki to be able to add your suggestions

We are planning on two kinds of materials for a given course. The first is a set of materials which closely follow the lesson topics, including challanges, further information and so on, this is the standard course materials that will be conducted by a trainer. The second part is background materials, information about topics which people will need to understand in order to grasp what they are going to be doing in a lesson. This could be generated information or information already present in the wiki and help documentation and some topics my only require one part.


SPECIAL NOTE ON THE COMMUNITY TRAINING: This community training program is not connected to the official Canonical training program. This content will cover some similar topics but will not have any accreditation or certification associated with it. The information contained is intended to supplement the teaching work already being done by several teams in a central location.