I recently enjoyed reading Heidi's blog post entitled "Open Source Community and Socially Distanced Education,"[1] which offered the following compelling line of thought:
> [...] I've been considering how teaching a project course in a socially distanced environment is much like creating community in an open source project. Both require forms of asynchronous interactions. Both require good communication skills. Both require good time management and attention to detail. Both require some appropriate technical background and the ability to ask accurate questions. And both depend on the community for success. I was aware of these similarities, but somehow having to teach in an environment where I’m depending more often on electronic forms of communication has made this more clear to me. I will continue to reflect on these similarities and how I can leverage open source principles to improve student learning. Given this interest, I thought that perhaps folks in this community may be interested in the latest book project from the Open Organization community, *Human at a Distance: An Open Organization Guide to Distributed Teamwork*.[2] The book examines how remote, distributed teams can leverage open principles and practices—many derived from open source communities, which have been operating successful remote communities for decades—to create more dynamic, inclusive, and accountable organizations. You can find the book on GitHub, along with other volumes in the series: https://github.com/open-organization/open-org-distributed-work-guide/releases/tag/1.0 BB --- [1] https://heidiellis.wordpress.com/2020/12/29/open-source-community-and-socially-distanced-education/ [2] https://theopenorganization.org/books/ _______________________________________________ tos mailing list tos@teachingopensource.org http://lists.teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos TOS website: http://teachingopensource.org/
