Where are we? Is Jan now the second instructor? I think it's up to Jan to decide.
Regards, Michael. On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 5:34 AM, Mel Chua <m...@redhat.com> wrote: > > There is a POSSE seeding issue we'll keep having. If we require a > > physical human presence on site to start a POSSE seed in a part of the > > globe, it's going to slow things down ... when they are slow enough > > already. :) > > Honestly, I think they're pretty fast - after June alone, we'll have > multiplied the number of POSSE alumni by at least 5. Exponential growth > takes a little time to snowball. > > > What alternatives do we have? > > > > Video conferencing + FOSS tools being used? > > Not as a replacement for a POSSE. I believe the in-person aspect of the > experience is an important one; we're not trying to (just) teach > technical skills, we're trying to teach cultural immersion - and we need > the lowest possible communication barrier since we only have a week to > do it. > > > Accepting a FOSS expert (e.g. Jan) as an instructor without previous > > POSSE experience? > > Technically speaking, this is what we did/will-do for the POSSEs in > Singapore, Worcester, and to some extent California. A large amount of > effort and advance planning - and remote meeting and prep time - has > gone in to getting the second instructor and the curriculum ready for > POSSE in all three cases; it's workable, but it does take extra effort > to sync-up. > > > On that last one, my biggest concern is the one that Matt taught me -- > > the need for at least one of the instructors to intimately know the > > experience of teaching and academics. But that person doesn't have to > > be a POSSE graduate. > > Our current requirements, from > http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/POSSE_Instructors, seem to > fulfill this: > > * A POSSE must be taught by at least 2 instructors. > * A POSSE must have at least 1 instructor who has taught a POSSE before. > * A POSSE must have at least 1 instructor with deep community > involvement in that POSSE's focal project. > * A POSSE should have at least 1 instructor who is teaching, or has > taught, at the college level. > > > Or do we accept the slower pace? > > Patience is good - and multiplying by a factor of 6 (likely more by the > end of the calendar year) seems pretty good to me. We'll be starting > Summer 2011 POSSE planning in June... one thing I've been repeatedly > told is that things move a little more slowly in this world. :) > > --Mel > _______________________________________________ > tos mailing list > tos@teachingopensource.org > http://teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos >
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