Academic Advisory Committee
Introduction
Aim of the Committee:
- Encouraging a community of like minded educational experts in the development and dissemination of Open Source educational opportunities
- Supporting global and local employability skills and the proliferation of open technological resources.
Scope, Mandate and Activities
- Report to and liaise with LPI Executive Director (“ED”) to encourage the spawning of educational, skills and training opportunities from the activities of this committee
- Advising LPI on certification programs and content (new and current) including industry 4.0 topics
- Help organise lobbying to gain acceptance with national and local governments, education authorities, national qualification frameworks,international (such as European) qualification frameworks, etc.
- Create a culture where we can encourage others to become mutual lobbyists to government
- Equip activists to engage with external stakeholders
- Creation of an open source education advocacy knowledge base from a global perspective, containing:
good practice
- Compendium of international/national official educational initiatives (political)
- Compendium of international/national educational initiatives (economical)
- What is the equivalent of QCF/Register/Apprenticeship/Points around the world?
- Contain a SWOT analysis of each stakeholder
- Filling the gaps of how to train
- Clarify and prioritize learning objectives for various certifications
- Training Materials, Lab Resources, Train The Trainer, Language / Translation
- Taking into account the level of digitization of different school systems
- Advisory committee, requires a global viewpoint and engagement
- Standardisation of terminology so all parties understand and speak common terminology
- Helping non-participating nations develop their Linux education programmes
- Translating experiences from one region to other
- Identification of conferences, seminars, events, unconferences, organisations to affiliate with, partake, lead or attend
- Working with Allies, Advocacy
- WorldSkills
- Vendors - Cisco / NDG
- Awarding Bodies in different nations
- Sector Skills Councils
- Creating own community of skills development
- Representation on other committees
- WorldSkills
Membership list
Sponsor: Jon Hall, US
Chair: Thomas Michels, DE
Core Members:
- Stephen Murphy, UK
- Aaron Saxton, UK
- Andrew Smith, UK
- Geraldine Pastor, DE
- Siegfried Wenzler, DE
- Erwin Boonk, NL
- Marco Verleun, NL
- Sandor Strohmayer, US
- Àngel Garcia, ES
- Cesar Brod, BR
- Sam Coleman
- Stuart Keroff
- Dr. Markus Wirtz, DE
- Hans Blankendaal, NL
- Krijn Hoogendorp, NL
- Wian Stienstra, DE
LPI Staff Support:
- G Matthew Rice, CA
- Kevin Glendenning, CA
- Fabian Thorns, DE
Joining the AAC
If you work in the academic or school sector and would like to support the Academic Advisory Committee as an honorary official member, please write an e-mail to thomasmichels@gmx.de. Briefly describe your background and motivation to participate in the Academic Advisory Committee.
Mechanics
How the AAC works:
The AAC meets monthly for a collaborative online meeting that all members should attend. In these monthly online meetings the common goals and the steps towards the goals are discussed.
The individual working groups work according to their own specifications and discuss their further procedure in online settings.
In the main joint meetings, the individual working groups report on the current status of the groups and their next steps.
Our work
What we have achieved:
In 2017, we first came together and jointly defined our first goals.
These were defined as follows:
Development of a structure for the creation of learning materials.
Developing a proposal for IT-Security essentials certification and related learning materials
Developing a proposal for Microcontroller essentials certification and related learning materials
Developing a proposal for Webdeveloper essentials certification and related learning materials
Once we had found a working mode for ourselves, we went to work together and were already able to post the first results at the end of 2017.
In 2018, we worked intensively together in groups on our goals and have implemented them to a large extent.
The proposals of our IT-Security essentials certification and Microcontroller essentials certification are complete and will be reviewed by LPI and converted into an LPI style.
The template for the learning materials, including an example, has been completed and handed over to LPI.
The LPI then commissioned the creation of learning materials for Linux Essentials based on our developed structure and the first materials are already being created.
Outlook:
Our structure will also be used to create other materials for the new essentials exams.
IT-Security essentials will be completed by the end of the first quarter, Microcontroller essentials by the end of the second quarter and Webdeveloper essentials by the end of the third quarter.
