There is a lot of teaching content out there, but there is no central place that can get you to all of it.
Yesterday we had a discussion about the future of resources aggregation and moderation for Drupal (e.g. videocasts, recordings, audio, write-ups,...). I've got a part (the first 30 minutes are missing) transcript of the IRC session at http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dgtrwwgw_1dtmqc5c2
There were basically 3 use cases:
1) Drupal Dojo where people come to teach and learn - sort of social network for learning and mentoring
2) A Drupal materials aggregator - that collects everything and that is community moderated
3) A moderated content list - where a list of comprehensive materials is made available
My interpretation of the differences between these 3 is the following:
1 - Social network
2 - Aggregation
3 - Moderation
at http://groups.drupal.org/node/17630
btopro asked if there were resources available that he could maybe use as teaching materials for an independent course at his uni. I'm also teaching Drupal at the university of Szeged, it could be a really cool idea to put together a set of online Drupal lectures that can be used by the different universities out there that teach Drupal.
Having centralized teaching materials would allow teachers to focus on student interaction. You could give credits for practical projects (e.g. build not for profit site, build a module, clean up an issue queue, the Novice tasks Webchick talked about, ...) and focus all your time on mentoring your students while they do these projects.
Maybe a teacher could put together his own course as a sort of book of materials? Or teachers could join and work out together what should be in the online materials?
This could be a mayor boost to get more organizations to teach Drupal...
Comments
Many different elements
All these components are valuable, but not so easy to tackle all at once. The Dojo's attempt to build a resource center, produce high quality vids, ended up distracting from being the fun freeform mentoring group that made it such a success in the early days. Since the community chipped in for a better system for teaching and collaboration, the Dojo is focusing back on content.
We've created a separate group to focus on the building of the resource center, craft a curriculum around the development experience, and also take big picture look at all the Drupal learning/training efforts and how they intersect.
With Dave now onboard as project manager, we're picking up where we left off in the planning stages, and 'ideally' will have an initial prototype up and running by DrupalCon.
So call it whatever you want, it seems like we're working towards a similar goal.
Gus Austin
PepperAlley Productions
Gus Austin
totally agree, let's combine all forces out there
Thx for adding the link context! As I've mentioned earlier I totally agree that we should do this together
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