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Subject: [FTA-Announce] FTA Announce #16: Learners take the lead
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*Learners take the lead in reorganising the new FTA Academy*
1. A Community-based FTA
Following the announcement about rebooting the FTA, quite a few people
have sent us encouraging emails, some willing to take courses, complete
masters, others to teach courses, offer company training through the FTA
campus or help otherwise. Though the first reaction for many of us was
that of surprise and sadness, now we are also seeing this as an opportunity!
The way forward is to go with a group of committed people. Committed to
get this new phase off the ground. It will be completely bottom up, so
those willing to take active leads can make something beautiful of it.
We have plenty of good things to be proud of: the online campus,
completely based on Free Software, ten existing course books most of
which are examples for universities (several of them have started to use
and translate FTA course books), the methodologies to run online
courses, work on continuous improvement and quality assurance processes,
recognition of certificates and a network of tutors and of partners. But
most important is an active group of people, committed to take this further.
We hope to have elgg mailinglist integration in the Community Portal
soon. For now, we have set up a discussion list in Mailman. Join us
here: [1]
2. The FTA goes on: Bottum-up courses
Learners are identifying which courses should be run in 2012. If you are
interested in a certain topic, form a group of peers willing to take
part in a self-organised course and commit to contribute an agreed
tuition fee to cover the course's costs. Choose from a list of existing
courses and topics, though variations may be discussed. Peers
contribute, within the course context, to the advancing of the existing
knowledge base on the course topics. Currently available courses, ready
to be run, are those with complete course books listed in FTA materials
[2]. With some additional work, courses from the draft common curriculum
can also be run (please first consider how much additional work, and how
as a community we could solve that best).
3. Survey to detect course interests
With thanks to Harry Thijssen we have a peer survey to share your
interests for the 2012 Semester 1 courses. Fill out your desires and
make FTA courses happen here [3] and join the discussion list!
4. New payment methods
We have received quite some remarks on making it easier to send
donations and payments for courses. Indeed, up to now only bank
transfers are accepted and sometimes that can be rather complicated. We
are looking into additional payment methods like BitCoin and PayPal.
Additionally, we're discussing crowd-funding schemes to develop much
needed courses.
5. Redefinition of sustainability models
Apart from the promising bottom-up approach, there are plans in the
making to offer trainings to organisations to help them understand Free
Software and Open Standards and facilitate their migration and
deployment. This helps increasing the user base of FS&OS, and at the
same time bring in some money for those participating in that. Private
training is aimed to all kinds of organisations interested in upgrading
the knowledge of their staff in the area of Free Knowledge and Free
Technologies. These organisations may be considering a partial or total
migration to Free/Open Source Software and Open Standards, adopting an
Open Development production model, may be interested in Communities,
Free Culture, Peer Production, the Commons... Interested? Let us know! [4]
[1] http://mail.freeknowledge.eu/mailman/listinfo/fta-discussion
[2] http://ftacademy.org/materials
[3]
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dGVHR0ptaWtoTTV6dWpRUkY3b3FXenc6MQ
[4] http://ftacademy.org/contact or mailto:[email protected]
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