Open Meeting: The school CodinGoat, open models education and economic models in open education

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Following a LinkedIn discussion with the project holder of CodinGoat [french] who have an intent to promote common (good) as part of their pedagogy.

Meeting Date: 28 November 2023, 11:30 UTC+1 (Paris/Berlin)
Visio link: https://meet.jit.si/cal/3ed86cf5-f53b-4216-83de-5a7a94563175
Preparatory questions/topics: https://mensuel.framapad.org/p/8ck478khbk-a4hn

CodinGoat

Opening in September 2024, CodinGoat will be an IT school in the campaign « to train ethical IT developers [...] far from the chimeras of the urban start-up world ». A pedagogy with project based learning, gamification, reflexive and collaborative learning, real world project with the nearby ecosystem and open source being one value of their manifesto.

A project supported by people who contributed to shape 42 curriculum (in 2015) with a number of improvements through criticisms of the pedagogical model, with another school in Vietnam created in the meantime.

Economic Models in Open Education

This meeting is mainly following one question: will their pedagogical content be open source/open educational resources ?

Where the answer for now is no, « this [question] highlights the 'open source' limit of [their] approach. ». The actual intent is to split the strategy in 2, documentation of the process would be open source where the pedagogical content itself would be closed.

There is this intent to go open source with a certain lack of understanding, starting with open business models for open source and open education.

The idea of this meeting would be to start from the CodinGoat project to discuss open education, money around it, and open models education for an engaged IT school more broadly to fuel our collective thinking on it. Economical model in open education may be of interest for some other players.

With this orientation, they may find some interest in open models education for both the training of their students and the development of the project.

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Preparatory questions/topics - open meeting with CodinGoat

Subject you want to discuss during this open meeting, feel free to share your ideas. Do not hesitate to start exchange here, it could favour deeper discussions!

• Presentation of CodinGoat and the pedagogy (with its open source orientation, why ?). Some explanation regarding the third place + relation to science/research.

• How do you expect to train on open source ?

• What do you know about business models in open source software ?

• What do you know about open education ?

• What would be the current CodinGoat economical model ? Partnership with school projects, what kind of long term relation with organisation + students (/alumni) of the ecosystem ?

• Given the growing influence of artificial intelligence in pedagogy and education, do you see this trend as problematic? If so, what specific challenges do you foresee, and how do you propose addressing them? On the other hand, if you don't see it as a problem, could you explain your perspective and the potential benefits you believe AI brings to the field of education?

• Do you see the interest of engaged actors to move towards open practices ? Utility of open models to build project with social/ecological impacts.

Event

ENCORE+ Final Conference : https://www.icde.org/event/encore-final-conference/?
Session 6: OER Innovation & Business Models