Open Curriculum: Definitions – Scenarios – Roadmap – Skill sets – Open certification – References - Roles
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Please add references we can share:
- "How Do You Know that Gal Knows Drupal? Towards an Open Source Curriculum and a Community-Based Accreditation Scheme for Drupal" Heather James, Acquia, @learningdrupal & Dominik Lukeš, Dyslexia Action, @techczech – http://tinyurl.com/drupalcert1
- Self-assessment "Mad Skillz"; presentation and document by Diana Dupuis: blog post + pdf, presentation at DrupalCon London
- The Drupal learning curve – a configurator's view (blog post)
Pages about this open curriculum project
- Feedback on Drupal skill sets, round one (closed 2011-10-18)
Discussions about prerequisite knowledge for Drupal professionals
- Skills to look for when hiring (potential) Drupal talent (d.o post)
- Skills of a successful back-end web developer (d.o post)
- Skills of a successful front-end web developer (d.o post)
Other models
- See more examples of community-mediated curriculum in open source projects: http://groups.drupal.org/node/66278
- Mozilla’s Open Badge Infrastructure (OBI) - http://wiki.mozilla.org/Badges
- Wordpress's list of providers http://codepoet.com/apply
- A pretty good introduction to open source syllabi, with Khan Academy as starting point
Previous conversations in the community about certification
Read through the comments as well!
2010 - From Greggles http://groups.drupal.org/node/89354
2009 - Dries http://buytaert.net/on-drupal-certification-programs
2009 - Lullabot http://www.lullabot.com/blog/do-you-wanna-be-lullabot-drupal-certified