[ICANN Academy WG] Feedback on Draft_Curriculum_Initial_Proposal_20120203.doc

Sat Feb 4 15:17:56 UTC 2012

I think we should add something in relation to ICANN Policy Development
Process.

-ed

On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 8:25 PM, Glenn McKnight <mcknight.glenn at gmail.com>wrote:

> *Draft_Curriculum_Initial_Proposal_20120203.doc*
> Re: Glenn McKnight
>
> #1  Target Audience
> Expand audience with a  concentrated short refresher course
>
>    - This idea reaches out to  help the  existing and current members
>    providing an abbreviated ' top up or refresher' course especially
>    beneficial to those individuals who are marginal participants or slow
>    learners who need this type of course.
>
>
>
>    - New staff,  new staff might also benefit not just senior staff in
>    the short version.
>
> #2  Type of Program: Face to Face
> *
> *
> The training delivery strategy provides a opportunity for the adult
> learners to get immersed into the comprehensive curriculum which is
> augmented by relevant information exchange with the facilitators and senior
> ICANN staff.
>
> Each training module will be available after the training sessions as
> video recordings and to be accessible through the ICANN Academy website.
> One possible way to add multilingual support to the archive is to add
> subtitles to the recordings. This is not covered by the current plan nor by
> its budget
>
> # 3  Training Days*: 3 day program (20 hours)*
>
> # 4 Materials:
> Participant training materials including supplemental educational
> resources will be made available in the private Wiki Workspace. Each course
> module will be organized according to the module title, course objectives,
> course deliverables, glossary, course outlines and workbooks. Each module
> will incorporate the assigned reading assignments and slideshows and audio
> visual resources.
>
> # 5 *Curriculum*
> *Note: the ordering within each of those categories, at the moment, is
> not meant to represent priority or importance, just the order in which they
> were thought about.*
>
> *# 6 *
> 1. Core topics (Day 1)
>
> These should be taught by specialist in the area, i.e. people who have
> taught the subject before or who have done research in the area. While
> primarily presentation in style they should include discussion session,
> those could be done separate, i.e. a lecture with a chance for clarifying
> questions, and then a seminar for those who want to delve deeper.
> Some of the topics to be considered include:
>
> *Some of the topics to be considered include:
>
>    - Internet Fundamentals
>       -
>          -
>       - What is DNS?
>    - History, milestones and accomplishments of ICANN
>    - ICANN Operation Overview including IANA
>    - Internet governance Overview
>    -  Internet governance and ICANN’s roles and responsibilities
>    - The multi-stakeholder model (concept and best practice)
>    -  ICANN's multi-stakeholders
>    - Rights (human, privacy, property, trademark issues …):
>    -  Rights and ICANN’s role and responsibilities.
>    - Competition, consumer trust and consumer choice
>    -  CCC and ICANN's role and responsibilities
>    - Role of governments in the global Internet governance eco system
>
> *
>
> Fellow’s presentation to learn more about their background should be part
> of the first day, this should be organised in a relaxed atmosphere (after
> dinner for instance). This could also be a chance to introduce peer to peer
> mentoring. (see proposal Siva and Glenn)
>
> *#7*
> *2. Specific ICANN training (Day 2)
>
> These would be well suited to presentation by ICANN senior staff, and
> Board/ACSO chairs/council/ExCom presenters. These would be best suited to a
> Lecture and Q/A format. Perhaps practicum exercises could be included in
> some of the topics (e.g. what does the budget form look like, how does one
> do a request for information, how to deal with g-council proxy ...)
>
>    - ICANN Mandate and Vision
>    - ICANN organizational architecture
>    - Introduction to the structure of an ICANN meeting
>    - Introduction to the By-laws
>    - How does the strategic planning work?
>    - How do Operational and Budget planning work?
>    - How do Working Groups function?
>    - Compliance enforcement and ICANN
>    - Specific Introduction to each of ACs and SOs; operations and dynamics
>    - Specific Introduction to the Board; operations and dynamics
>
> *
> 3. Current ICANN Issues
>
> These can be taught by the chairs and other leaders of the various
> efforts. Alternatively, the students in the class could do them as research
> projects. These would be discussion topics more than lectures.
>
>    - In depth discussion of all recently terminated public comment issues
>    - In depth review of topics coming before the Board in the next 12
>    months
>    - In depth review of all ongoing Policy Development Processes
>    - In depth discussion of AOC reviews, past, current and future
>    - Explanations of the new TLD programs (IDNccTLD, gTLD, both LDC Ascii
>    and IDN)
>
>
> (We can also use webinars to deepen the topics before or after the Academy
> or the TechDay on Monday of each ICANN meeting)
>
> 4. Wrap Up after the IANN meeting (1/2 day)
>
> Fellows should have the possibility to reflect their experience and get
> clarification on specific issues.
>
> Methodology
> **
> The core training fundamentals over the three day training period will
> take the learner from an initial gradual introduction to a topic, onward to
> illustrative examples and then to finally detailed practical application,
> all with the goal to reinforce the concept so that the learner achieve
> maximum understanding
>
> Next Steps in preparation for Toronto Leadership Academy
> **
>
>    - Formulate the format for the courseware
>    - Encourage end user feedback to improve curriculum
>    - Modify curriculum with the feedback
>    - Get approval for curriculum
>    - Develop Course proposals
>    - Create a job description of the facilitators
>    - Start a pool of internal and external facilitators
>    - Start training
>    - Distribute online feedback from participants
>    - Incorporate training feedback into new courseware
>
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