On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 08:27:10AM -0500, Karlie Robinson wrote: > On 02/27/2010 06:34 AM, Mel Chua wrote: > > GregDeK - Also: how would folks feel about requiring that at least one of > > the > > >> instructors at a POSSE teach - or have taught - at the college level? > > All right. If we implement all of these, does this block - or unblock - > > anyone? > > > > Forgive my late entry into this thread. Since I live and breath Linux > and FOSS all week, I try not to read email on weekends. > > First off, Greg's suggestion that someone should have College level > teaching experience would block me, and puts others like me out of the > running before POSSE picks up steam.
It looks like you and Mel discussed this on IRC, so I'll do a wrap for the list. We need a teaching team of 2 or 3, and in that mix, they MUST have real FOSS experience, and at least one of them SHOULD have higher ed teaching experience. This rule doesn't exclude non-teachers from being part of the teaching team, much to the relief of Karlie and myself. Wrapping up the discussion here, the purpose is to help the nascent Teaching Open Source community of practice learn from the wider FOSS community of practice, and that educator-instructors helps bridge the gap for the educator-students. This is because one of the goals is to help the educator-students learn how to motivate and make changes in their own instititutions by drawing people in to the new community of practice, for their own good! :) In all of this, we need to make sure that people who are potential members of the teaching team understand that there is a mix of skills and experience required that we all may not have, and none of it is any less valuable. I think in making this a SHOULD requirement we avoid the trap of having to take on a member of the teaching team because of a rule where there may not be one available with sufficient experience. (E.g., POSSE APAC last year.) It becomes incumbent on the teaching team to make sure that a professor who hasn't attended a POSSE but is teaching one knows what to expect. Beyond that, I'll stop supposing nightmare scenarios. :) - Karsten -- name: Karsten 'quaid' Wade, Sr. Community Gardener team: Red Hat Community Architecture uri: http://TheOpenSourceWay.org/wiki gpg: AD0E0C41
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