[ICANN Academy WG] Feedback on Draft_Curriculum_Initial_Proposal_20120203.doc

[Avri Doria]

Hi,

If I understand you comments correctly you are offering a somewhat rewritten version of the curriculum.

Since there are no change markings, it is  difficult to be sure the changes you are suggesting are all caught, but I have tried side by side reading in responding to this message.

I have offered a few comments on some of the re-writes inline.  For many I am not certain if you are just suggesting stylistic changes  or substantive changes. I will try not to comment on the stylistic unless it seems to really be substantive.


On 3 Feb 2012, at 19:25, Glenn McKnight 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.

I think you are right, but it isn't, I beleive, in the charter for this first Academy proposal.  But mentioning that versions of the course could re-purposed for these uses with minimal extra work is a good idea.

> #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. 

I think this is a good idea.  But it is also a lot of work that needs to accounted for in the Budget.  

> 
> # 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.

This line was in the first draft (and in the distributed version) and I am not sure it is that relevant anymore.    not that the order represents importance, but it is approaching a priority in which things need to be discussed before other things.

> 
> # 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 
> 		•
> 			•   

Do we really need to back that far.  Perhaps just locating DNS in the larger Internet system is enough.
Also there are many ways to view the Internet ranging from bit and bytes, to protocols and architectures, to how the systems is built along the lines of particular Principles.  

> 
> 	• What is DNS? 

Is this pat of DNS Basics?
Is how it works also important?

> 	• 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

good idea to mention this specifically

> 	• 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  

good explanation of a spiral technique and probably more useful than the jargon.

> 
> Next Steps in preparation for Toronto Leadership Academy
> 	• Formulate the format for the courseware

Wouldn't this need to be done after the incorporation of feedback?

> 	• 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


thanks

avri

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