Hi,
I recently realized that a new badge[1] for people who ran a in Fedora Classroom, but I see that classes have not been held since 2011. Probably we need to rethink this a little bit.
Eduardo Echeverría (aka echevemaster) has the idea of having virtual classrooms relying primarily on video. This bring me to mind classes Coursera or edX-like. It's called Fedora College and it's under active development[2].
My idea is: both this IRC classes project and College can be complemented rather than blocking each other. I wonder what the community think. Is worth to start this again? Are there enough people willing to help? Let's try to get these questions answered.
Kind regards.
1: https://badges.fedoraproject.org/badge/sensei 2: https://github.com/echevemaster/fedora-college
On Sat, 2013-12-14 at 20:13 -0600, Eduardo Mayorga Téllez wrote:
Hi,
Hi!
I recently realized that a new badge[1] for people who ran a in Fedora Classroom, but I see that classes have not been held since 2011. Probably we need to rethink this a little bit.
+1
It's just because people are busy. It's the general issue with volunteer based projects :/
Eduardo Echeverría (aka echevemaster) has the idea of having virtual classrooms relying primarily on video. This bring me to mind classes Coursera or edX-like. It's called Fedora College and it's under active development[2].
Isn't moodle good enough[1]? I've seen it being used by quite a few universities. It's available in the repositories too[2]. (It's generally better to use an existing, tested platform. It limits the burden to infra only, instead of infra + development.)
My idea is: both this IRC classes project and College can be complemented rather than blocking each other. I wonder what the community think. Is worth to start this again? Are there enough people willing to help? Let's try to get these questions answered.
We could probably use a platform that lets us put up both irc and video lessons. I haven't looked at fedora-college yet.
I'll help with infra and lessons. However, this depends on the free cycles I get, as always :)
[1] https://moodle.org/ [2] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/acls/bugs/moodle
Hey Eduardo and Ankur.
I'd love to see fedora-classroom start up again, or help start out some new form of it. I don't have much time for it, but happy to help where I can. ;)
IRC classes were/are nice IMHO because they are interactive (people can ask questions) and it's easy to save them and publish them later for people to read that wen't able to attend. Video can be nice, but it's less interactive and without transcripts it's hard for some people to commit to watching an entire long video when they aren't sure it's of interest to them.
In any case, whatever form or forms things work is fine with me.
Let me know if I can assist any...
kevin
El 18-12-2013 09:12, Kevin Fenzi escribió:
Hey Eduardo and Ankur.
I'd love to see fedora-classroom start up again, or help start out some new form of it. I don't have much time for it, but happy to help where I can. ;)
Great! Now we're three.
IRC classes were/are nice IMHO because they are interactive (people can ask questions) and it's easy to save them and publish them later for people to read that wen't able to attend. Video can be nice, but it's less interactive and without transcripts it's hard for some people to commit to watching an entire long video when they aren't sure it's of interest to them.
Right, but a disadvantage is that some things are easier to explain graphically (like videos) rather than textually.
In any case, whatever form or forms things work is fine with me.
I think that a Moodle install could help us a lot for now. And maybe, we can take fedora-college as a long term replacement. :^)
On Wed, 2013-12-18 at 14:08 -0600, Eduardo Mayorga Téllez wrote:
I think that a Moodle install could help us a lot for now. And maybe, we can take fedora-college as a long term replacement. :^)
I've set up a test moodle instance here[1]. Feel free to register and play around with it. We need to first see if it'll work for the community.
The test instance doesn't have a lot of courses so you might want to register on moodle.org and go through the courses there to see what you can and cannot do.
I haven't found an openid plugin yet, so we can't use moodle with FAS yet. There's other work to be done too, for instance, badges based on moodle results etc.
I feel moodle is a little too complex for us, but you folks should test it out before we make a final decision.
[1] https://moodle-ankursinha.rhcloud.com/
On 2013-12-29 05:48, Ankur Sinha wrote:
On Wed, 2013-12-18 at 14:08 -0600, Eduardo Mayorga Téllez wrote:
I think that a Moodle install could help us a lot for now. And maybe, we can take fedora-college as a long term replacement. :^)
I've set up a test moodle instance here[1]. Feel free to register and play around with it. We need to first see if it'll work for the community.
The test instance doesn't have a lot of courses so you might want to register on moodle.org and go through the courses there to see what you can and cannot do.
I haven't found an openid plugin yet, so we can't use moodle with FAS yet. There's other work to be done too, for instance, badges based on moodle results etc.
I feel moodle is a little too complex for us, but you folks should test it out before we make a final decision.
Please give me “teacher” permissions (start a new course). I've been busy for a while but I think that now I'm able to work on this.
My account is mayorga.
On Fri, 2014-01-17 at 06:16 +0100, Eduardo Mayorga Téllez wrote:
Please give me “teacher” permissions (start a new course). I've been busy for a while but I think that now I'm able to work on this.
My account is mayorga.
Done. I've added you as a teacher to the "How to create an RPM" course. A teacher can only make changes for each course (course context).
I've also added you as a "course creator" so you can create new courses (system context).
I've also added you as a site admin so you can modify roles for other people that may want to test moodle out (system context).
On 2013-12-29 05:48, Ankur Sinha wrote:
I haven't found an openid plugin yet, so we can't use moodle with FAS yet. There's other work to be done too, for instance, badges based on moodle results etc.
Could you try to install this one following README instructions? https://launchpad.net/moodle-openid/+milestone/2.0
On Mon, 2014-01-27 at 21:10 +0100, Eduardo Mayorga Téllez wrote:
Could you try to install this one following README instructions? https://launchpad.net/moodle-openid/+milestone/2.0
I'll give it a go when I have time. However, considering that the last commit to their source was in 2009, I wouldn't put too much of my money on this one :)
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