[seul-edu] Re: curriculum - Linux Education

[Rasjid Wilcox <rasjidw@bigpond.com>]

On Fri, 16 Nov 2001 15:03, Ms.G wrote:
> Mr. Chen and others on this thread:
>
> Beware of a mistake often seen in community-technology efforts: aiming
> right over the targeted learners' heads!
>

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-seul-edu@seul.org [mailto:owner-seul-edu@seul.org]On Behalf
> Of Alan Chen
> Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 5:01 PM
> To: seul-edu@seul.org
> Subject: Re: [seul-edu] Re: curriculum Re: [ma-linux] Linux Education
>
>
> Wow, talk about timely discussion.  Today I was asked if I could look
> into a curriculum for teaching a Introduction to Linux class. Do any of
> your students take LPI exams? If so, how much class time is generally
> involved in getting the students to pass the LPI Level 1 exam? (I might
> be teaching high-school students in an after school program)
>
> -- alan

I have also recently been asked to look into finding or organising a 
beginners or introductory course to Linux.  This would not be aimed to IT 
professionals, but at your average home user or small business operator who 
doesn't like Microsofts new licensing arrangements and has heard of Linux and 
would like to know more but doesn't know where to start.

This discussion has been quite involved, with a number of things to follow 
up.  I'm also unclear what has been going on off list.

Perhaps a summary post of the relevant sources of information would not go 
astray?

* A curriculum by Alan was posted by Karl, 16 November.
* Tom Miller has a basic users course.  Unclear if this is publicly available.
* Teemu has created some courses, and would consider releasing them, possibly 
under the OpenContent License (http://opencontent.org/) or GPL.
* John has a short history of Unix at 
http://www.interdepend.org/cgi-bin/twiki/view/Main/LinuxOpenLecturePool
* Karl is hoping to start a repository of curriculums.
* Karl mentions http://www.linuxuniversity.org
* Ms G give a link to Dr Phil Carinhas curriculum, released under the GPL.  
http://www.fortuitous.com/reply.php?name=manuals.html

There may be other information I have missed.

My question is what is the status with the courses mentioned by Tom Miller 
and Teemu?

And are there any other links that people would like to suggest?

Rasjid.