Hacks/Hackers and Mozilla Foundation Team Up to Create a Course through Peer-to-Peer University
Hacks/Hackers is teaming up with Mozilla, the open-source-oriented nonprofit, to creating a course through Peer-to-Peer University, with the aim of collective eduction: the hackers teaching the journos, and vice versa.
The idea won a $1,000 seed prize at MIT’s Future of News and Civic Media conference in June. That contest gave the $2,000 seed money for Hacks/Hackers in 2009.
The class will be a six-week commitment, with one hour a week of lectures and one project. It will cover a broad range of topics, and instructors will (tentatively) include NYT interactive guru and Hacks/Hackers honcho Aron Pilhofer, Amanda Hickman(teaching about mapping), and David Cohn (instructing students on online collaboration). Nieman Lab did a write-up when it won a prize at the MIT Future of Civic Media conference.