Hello Educators and Trainers<br><br>I would like to offer a web based framework to manage the entries from
which the whole "body of teaching and certifying" would be made of.<div>
<br></div><div>In short the idea would be to divide any entries according to their TYPE; as such all entries fall into one of the following;</div><div><br></div><div>-Lecture</div><div>-Exercise</div><div>-Test</div><div>
<br></div><div>Across all types, entries share a CONTENT KEY, which is
hierarchical, so for example a beginners test on array modifier usage written in
English would have the key English->beginner->test->meshes&modelling->modifiers->array.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Across all types, entries share a LEVEL , which is ordinal and can be any group of subsets from beginner to expert (here i would like to note, only the BF can grant a level of Instructor which would not apply to the body of this project).</div>
<div><br></div><div>Participation would use the same philosophy of approval as development commit rights. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Usage would remain open and free.</div><div><br></div><div>Entries can be composed of any variation of video, documents, text, blend files and interactive forms.</div><div><br></div><div>A
CERTIFICATION level thus becomes a BF RECOMMENDATION , which
is composed of grouping into the CERTIFICATION DESCRIPTION a series of CONTENT KEYS to be completed successfully for a given LEVEL.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Also, there can be an infinite amount of entries
sharing the same content key, this means that examination material can
be generated "randomly" and still comply to the BF recommendation. Also, the learning experience can be made quite ample by offering assorted entries of lectures with varying angles and approaches for a given content key. <br>
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<div><br></div><div>In practice this means that students will be able to
either attend a full course or simply show up for accreditation, just
like British Cambridge Certifications of English at all levels.
the difference is that here the emitter for the certificate is actually
the institute, not the foundation, however this very system could in
itself be credit worthy for certificate delivery to the self taught
and something of a control authority.</div>
<div><br></div><div>What I mean by this is that taking the management
system a little further, in order to be awarded a certificate, a student
must be registered in the site and pass web based equivalents of the
requested certification (in multiple answer format, to keep it automated). This covers both the BF, helping ensure that no
institute charges and certifies for mediocre understanding, and the
student, since approved students get listed in an openly available
database, which recruiters in turn would consult (of course, it must be
made clear to recruiters that listings display "availability" and are in
no case indicative of proficiency nor guarantee of actual knowledge).</div>
<div><br></div><div>The work load of such a system would ideally be distributed as such:</div><div><br></div><div>80% System: admin & deliver content / register,grade,list students / admin commit user rights.</div><div>
<br></div><div>19% Community: oversee content compliance / grant commit privileges / complain about missing features or bugs in the system.</div><div><br></div><div>1% BF : general overseer / certification description generator.<br>
<br>The usage would grant institutions and trainers the ability to generate, manage and share their own material in a way that fits the BF intended body of knowledge, students would be accredited by online test results as well as institutions / educators on their online profiles.<br>
<br>The overall intent of this would be to give to the community a cohesive structure for building assorted accreditations which would be defacto BF approved standards for measuring student proficiency in the field.<br></div>
<div><br>I can code and host this custom made "certs cms", if
you are willing to evaluate it, and back it up officially, if the
results please the BF.<br><br>I hope I can entice you to comment and argue about this so that we grow some momentum towards building a solution that can solve the educators need for coherence and the BF need for minimalistic involvement.<br>
<br>Regards,<br><br>Carlos Santana.<br></div><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 6:48 PM, laurent <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:laurent@tdm.info" target="_blank">laurent@tdm.info</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Hi,<br>
<br>
Thanks for your encouraging answer, Ton.<br>
<br>
I agree with Douglas that we may not necessary need the training
material. The headings/table of contents are likely to be sufficient
as they can give us a clue about what is the priority and core
learning.<br>
From that we can then build a list of topics and Objectives. <br>
As an example, LPIC certification is quite well structured:
<a href="http://www.lpi.org/eng/certification/the_lpic_program/lpic_1/exam_101_detailed_objectives" target="_blank">http://www.lpi.org/eng/certification/the_lpic_program/lpic_1/exam_101_detailed_objectives</a><br>
<br>
Well... now we can probably start something...<br>
<br>
On a practical note, I am not sure what is the best way to exchange
ideas and communicate about that. The mailing list is not
appropriate for exchanging files.<br>
Does the BF wants to host that or we need to find somewhere else ?
We have space on our servers if necessary.<br>
<br>
I am not a Blender instructor and will miss probably a lot of key
skills in Blender, however I have experience in Teaching and
professional certification. Douglas, are you interested in starting
something ? Anyone else interested ?<div><div></div><div><br>
<br>
On 30/03/11 11:41, Ton Roosendaal wrote:
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<pre>Hi all,
Currently the Blender Foundation doesn't really exist as an
organization, it's actually just a legal vehicle to ensure we have our
IP safe (code, domains, brand, docs, content) and to manage donations.
The main target of BF is to keep <a href="http://blender.org" target="_blank">blender.org</a> alive, to facilitate all
projects there (from docs to code). The BF doesn't officially meddle
with code, designs, or content really... for that the groups of
volunteers work in freedom, they organize themselves via the channels
facilitated by BF.
That's what I prefer to keep; BF should be as minimalistic as
possible, and stick to facilitation. When needed BF can set a couple
of steps as a catalyst, and withdraw when it goes well.
In my discussion with Laurent I've understood that we can treat the
Certification issue differently:
--> Providing a standardized set of training material and tests
This will keep the pure act of certification itself indepedently, but
it will help trainers, teachers, schools, institutes, governments etc.
to introduce Blender in their programs.
I think that's an interesting approach to investigate, matching the
"facilitation" strategy of BF as well.
-Ton-
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On 23 Mar, 2011, at 19:20, laurent wrote:
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<pre>I agree with you Douglas.
Whatever we do, there is something I was thinking from the start: I am
UK based and the central organisation for all qualification is QCF/
Ofqual.
I have some contacts that have been through the process of getting a
certification through the official body for England and Wales.
What it means when it is done, is that awarding bodies can integrate
the
certification in their qualification (GCSE, A level...).
It means that the certification is opened to Secondary Education
through
University.
It then makes it easier for School/Colleges/Universities to justify
the
choice of support for their courses (and choice of software).
LPIC, CompTIA, Cisco have done it and it is great to be able to
deliver
a qualification + certification to students as it equips them better.
But that can be the long term view...
What about the short term, is it possible to create a board or
something
"official" related to Blender Foundation ?
I exchanged emails with Ton Roosendaal last week-end, and although he
was on the same positions as Jason concerning the implications of the
Blender Foundation, my impression is that he was not against the
principle of a "board" of volunteer going toward a project like this.
What would be your thoughts on that, Jason ?
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