Madrid Mozilla Technologies Course

June 9th, 2009

The "Madrid Mozilla Technologies Course" is a three-month blended learning course organized by the Mozilla Foundation, Mozilla Europe and the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (Madrid Spain). The course starts July 1st 2009 and will finish October 15th. Most of the course is on-line and can be followed by followed by students using telematic tools (web, mailing lists, wikis, IRC, etc.). A one-week on-site sprint at on of the campi of the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos from July 13th to July 17th is included in this course.

The course is a university course by the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos. Those students that follow the course with success will obtain a degree from the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos and a diploma from the Mozilla Foundation/Mozilla Europe.

You can apply for a full scholarship for travel and accomodation for the sprint week in Madrid. You can apply for a scholarship when doing the pre-registration, which will start June 9th. The deadline for pre-registration is June 17th 20th (extended). List of accepted students and scholarships will be published June 20th 25th in this web-site.

Important Dates

June 1st, 2009
June 9th:Pre-registration form opens
June 17th 20th:Pre-registrations ends
June 20th 25th:List of acceted attendants and scholarships will be published.
June 21st:Registration opens.
June 30th:Registration closes.
July 1st:Course starts (on-line)
July 13th-17th:------- Sprint week in Madrid -------
July 25th: Selection of projects by students
End August: Intermediate deliverable by student
Early October: Release of final project
Mid-October:Defense and grading of the project

Teaching methodology:

June 1st, 2009
  • Materials and lectures will be in English
  • Use of the Moodle e-learning platform (have a look at the course outline)
  • Subversion repository with sources
  • Materials and lecture videos will be made publicy available, with the aim of being reusable
  • Theory: slides, exercises, auto-evaluation, forums...
  • Practice: project proposals, on-line support on IRC...

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