[QA IG] Curriculum for Web Standards

This is an excerpt of W3C QA IG F2F minutes of Mandelieu, France,  
27/28 February 2006
Each topic indivually given to help the discussion.
http://www.w3.org/QA/2006/03/minutes_of_qa_ig_f2f_at_the_w3.html


Curriculum for Web Standards
http://www.w3.org/QA/2006/03/minutes_of_qa_ig_f2f_at_the_w3#curriculum

    Both the QA IG and the [48]WASP are interested by creating resources
    for a Curriculum for Web standards. It's a recurring discussion on
    W3C mailing lists. The [49]WASP Education Task Force has been
    involved in talking to universities and colleges, bringing out
    examples of what's been done. The public output has been in the
    forms of interviews. The WASP is now interested in developing a kind
    of curriculum framework to help lecturers into their teaching. The
    QA activity as large has done nothing in this direction yet, but we
    have taken contacts, like Ed Bilodeau at Mc Gill University,
    Montreal, Canada to collect materials that would be useful for such
    a curriculum. Ed Bilodeau has showed interests in contributing to
    such a work, maybe under the form of a W3C Group Note. This work
    could be moved forward quite quickly considering that Stephanie
    Troeth (WASP) and Ed Bilodeau are both in Montreal.

      [48] http://webstandards.org/
      [49] http://www.webstandards.org/act/campaign/edutf/

    The audience of this framework would be lecturers, college teachers.
    It would include the time constraints, budget allocations,
    resources, etc. It has been shown that sometimes lecturers are quite
    positive about Web standards but they faced resistance through their
    department, specifically in Web design faculties. The framework will
    have to give hints on strategies for change. The format of the
    package has not yet been decided, but it has to be international
    then we need to understand how universities function around the
    world.

    There is a need for balance between
     1. what needs to be taught
     2. what can conceivably be taught

    There might be resources at Opera to make available for this effort.
    Opera has 1 full time + future resources part time and then probably
    full time working on the "open the web" initiative, but without
    precisely knowing how much of this could be contributed to QA IG.
    Some Web Standards User groups are forming at key Universities and
    Colleges to provide and advocate a method for change - WaSP Edu is
    providing interviews with these as they find out about them.

    The Core EduTF at WASP has four to six people. It seems reasonnable
    to create a join effort with a regular IRC meetings at least, every
    2 weeks. We will push the requirements interview phase and decide
    where to head from there.

    The first IRC meeting is planned for March 21. Time to be defined.


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