Concept¶

An open, free, libre, distributed education program where people can pickup what they need to learn (extern) or participate and involve themselves (intern) by learning, collaborating on projects, and contributing back to the project.

Names?¶

• Open (Hack) University, UFR0 style. ( OpenUniversity est pris)
• Hacker Studies. (assez sérieux) ***
• open(learn) (openlearn est pris)
• Université Invisible ( bon titre anar, mais pas trop indicatif du sujet) ***
• OCW Hack ( OCW n'est pas un acronyme très connu)
• Pirate PhD

People, Principle & Program¶

People

• Extern (Online only / alone)
• Intern (1. Learn, 2. Coop/Collab/Projects, 3. Autonomize/Contribute/Feedback Loop)

Principle

• No distinction between Students and Teachers, all are Interns.
• Each of them would be in a different part of the lifecycle (1. Learn 2. Coop 3. Contribute).
• There are no tests, evaluation, qualification based on formal tests.
• Only the Projects and Contribution back into the system is important.
• Anybody can start a new course.
• Anybody can start a new university, based on a software distribution reproducing the used support systems.

Program

• Regular interns / attendees, focused on Courses and Projects.
• This integrates nicely with Hacker in Residence or "visiting hackers" who can come and participate for a short period to a Project or Contribution.

Organization¶

Architecture and Infrastructure¶

• Extern then Intern (incentives)
• Commitment when going Intern: Assiduous, Collab, Contribute.
• Support Systems
  • Moodle (to install) http://www.moodle.org/
  • eduCommons http://cosl.usu.edu/projects/educommons/
  • Redmine (here)
  • OpenID
  • GIT/SVN
  • ML
  • FlashMeeting
• Integration into OpenCourseWare

Courses structure and support systems¶

• Courses (Moodle)
  • Subjects / Projects (Redmine)
    • FlashMeeting
    • GIT/SVN
    • ML

Courses¶

• Hack
  • HAC101 Basis
  • HAC151 Backdoor
  • HAC201 SQL Inject
  • HAC401 Buffer Overflow
• Computer Science
  • CS101 Basis
  • CS151 Standard Web Packages (Wordpress, Wiki, ...)
  • CS201 Prog in Python
  • CS301 Ruby on Rails
  • CS401 C
  • CS501 Parser & Compilers
  • CS551 Crypto1: Basic Crypto & related Math
  • CS552 Crypto2: Algebraic Attacks and SAT-based cryptanalysis
  • CS601 Assembly
  • CS801 FPGA
• Hardware & Electronics
  • HW101 Basis
  • HW121 Arduino
  • HW161 VLF and Sound cards
  • HW401 C on Atmel
  • HW501 Radio & RF designs
  • HW601 FPGA & Design
• Law
  • LAW101 Basis
  • LAW201 Activism and legal limits
  • LAW202 Face a la police, Face a la justice
  • LAW301 Licenses and other schemes
  • LAW401 Hacking the law: bugs and loopholes in existing laws
  • LAW501 Lobbying and social responsability

BrokenTV & open(learn)¶

• Short 5-15mn clips of interview for during the survey
• Online video recording/tagging tool (Flash? Red5? Yvan? Flowty?) vimeo ?

Links¶

Alternative¶

• UFR0
• Hackerspaces
• NRJ Realistes
• Wintercamp / Summercamp

Institutionnal¶

• UTLS / UNT
• Universités
• Ecoles d'Art

Diagonal¶

• http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity.html