{"id":2481,"date":"2010-01-29T17:11:31","date_gmt":"2010-01-29T22:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/?p=2481"},"modified":"2016-11-03T11:56:09","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T18:56:09","slug":"ubuntu-community-learning-project-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/2010\/01\/ubuntu-community-learning-project-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Ubuntu Community Learning Project Update"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Monday the 11th The Ubuntu Community Learning Project<\/a> (UCLP) held a meeting<\/a> to review our progress through and since the holidays.\"\"<\/p>\n

The UCLP is attempting to make professional education course materials, because we believe that education is one of the biggest barriers to getting new users and increasing existing users abilities.<\/p>\n

We are working to develop course material in 5 different segments, How to Use<\/a>, Maintain<\/a>, Develop<\/a>, Spread<\/a> and Teach<\/a> Ubuntu. This material is structured in the form of classes that can be taught in real life classrooms, on IRC and\/or via our Moodle site<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The team decided upon the licensing<\/a> (CC:BY-SA) and to formally use AsciiDoc for core material (for rationale, see Martin Owens’ blog post: Document Formats for Learning Materials<\/a>) and Nigel Babu has been working hard with the team to develop documentation for this. We now have a documented Course Layout<\/a> for in-classroom classes and Charles Profitt has been working on the Moodle side for online learning.<\/p>\n

So many avenues to explore! How do you contribute? First, Join the Team<\/a> by swinging by to have a talk to us in #ubuntu-learning or engage us on the Ubuntu Community Learning Project mailing list<\/a> (you’re also welcome to email me directly at lyz@ubuntu.com, please do!). We currently have people writing courses in .odt, on the wiki, in bzr using AsciiDoc and in Moodle, so there are a number of ways to get involved now. We also need folks who are interestied in doing peer review of the classes. Other tasks are outlined here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ready to write? Here’s the quick FAQ I tossed together based on the most popular questions that come up in channel.<\/p>\n

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  1. How do I select\/sign up for a topic to write about?<\/li>\n

    See Course Assignment<\/a><\/p>\n

  2. What is the layout I should follow?<\/li>\n

    See Course Layout<\/a><\/p>\n

  3. Where do I submit what I’ve written, what is the development workflow?<\/li>\n

    See Course Development<\/a><\/ol>\n

    We’re still in the process of completing full documentation for our asciidoc+bzr procedure for contributions (I’m in the middle of writing my first class!) so if you have any questions, please ask us.<\/p>\n

    How do you take advantage of the materials we’ve created thus far? Martin Owens has already written several sysadmin<\/a> classes:<\/p>\n