- From: Karl Dubost <karl@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2006 15:07:39 +0900
- To: www-qa@w3.org
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. -- Karl Dubost - http://www.w3.org/People/karl/ W3C Conformance Manager, QA Activity Lead QA Weblog - http://www.w3.org/QA/ *** Be Strict To Be Cool ***
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