School of Open talking points

  1. What 
    1. (Community of volunteers passionate about peer learning and openness. We work to provide free education opportunities for anyone in the world to learn about how they can improve their professions and lives by taking advantage of open tools, resources, and practices. Example: Copyright 4 Educators, CC for K-12 Educators)
    2. Collaboration btw CC and P2PU. 
      1. P2PU - community of people passionate about learning together under philosophy of peer learning. they also have a platform where you can create and run courses
        1. SOO sits as one of the schools within P2PU. Different schools focus on different domains, eg. School of Mathematical Future, School of Ed (prof dev for teachers), School of Data, School of Webcraft. SOO is one of those schools
      2. CC - we are coordinating the school, so a lot of the community wrangling and recruiting of volunteers - individuals and organizations - to become course organizers or get involved in other ways. All the logistics that go into managing the project.
      3. Important: P2PU has a large community already, SOO is a sub-community within that is passionate about furthering education about openness as aligned with P2PU's philosophy of peer learning.
  2. Why (State the problem we're trying to solve)
    1. Open content, tools and processes can vastly improve  access to and participation in research, education, technology, and  culture, but not enough people know what "open" means or how it applies  to their lives. But not enough people know what “open” means or how to apply it. 
    2. courses are designed around the question "How can open content, tools, or processes help people do what they do better?"
  3. How
    1. Peer learning on what "open" means and how to use open  content, tools, and processes powered by peer mentors and learners,  self-organized into courses which themselves leverage existing "open"  learning materials.
      1. Online courses (17)
        1. Stand-alone (13)
          1. Get CC Savvy (100 people have taken)
          2. Open Science, an Introduction
          3. More...
        2. Facilitated (4)
          1. Copyright 4 Educators (AUS and US) - ~50 sign-ups for US
          2. Writing Wikipedia Articles: The Basics and Beyond - ~50 sign-ups
          3. CC for K-12 - ~ 86 sign-ups
      2. Real world component
        1. Workshops introducing SOO - Berlin
        2. Course sprints to create SOO courses - Sudan (Open Video)
        3. SOO in schools - Kenya = ultimate goal
  4. Ultimate goal
    1. Encourage everyone, including artists, educators,  learners, and researchers, to improve their fields through the use of  open content, tools, and processes. Provide opportunities to obtain  skills and certification around open practices that result in improved  access to and participation in research, education, technology and  culture.
  5. Future
    1. Badges
    2. Regular cycles of courses (next cycle summer)
    3. research on impact of certain SOO courses - collaboration with the Open University's OER Research Hub (combination of quantitative metrics, eg. # of participatns, but more importantly qualitative metrics thru participants surveys)
    4. Integrating SOO curriculum into formal education programs and professional development programs
  6. Meta
    1. SOO is run openly
      1. open community dis list - things are decided in a loosely democratic way
        1. things like SOO philosophy, course guidelines, and course review process were all decided and drafted with the community
        2. monthly SOO call, public google calendar, blog reporting by community members
      2. exploring more structured open governance via Open Governance course with P2PU exec director for second cycle of courses
      3. all content created by organizers on P2PU is CC BY-SA (or more open license of organizer's choosing)
        1. participant contributions to site also CC BY-SA
  7. Get involved
  8. Avenues of involvement beyond creating/running courses (and how to best relay that to volunteers)