[TOS] [New book] Human at a Distance

[Heidi Ellis]

Thank you Bryan for pointing out this resource! I've started reading and
am finding ideas that I can use in my classes. Very helpful!  Its an
easy and fun read and I highly recommend it!

Heidi

On 1/7/21 9:02 AM, Bryan G. Behrenshausen wrote:
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> I recently enjoyed reading Heidi's blog post entitled "Open Source
> Community and Socially Distanced Education,"[1] which offered the
> following compelling line of thought:
>
>> [...] I've been considering how teaching a project course in a
> socially distanced environment is much like creating community in an
> open source project. Both require forms of asynchronous interactions.
> Both require good communication skills. Both require good time
> management and attention to detail. Both require some appropriate
> technical background and the ability to ask accurate questions. And
> both depend on the community for success. I was aware of these
> similarities, but somehow having to teach in an environment where I’m
> depending more often on electronic forms of communication has made this
> more clear to me. I will continue to reflect on these similarities and
> how I can leverage open source principles to improve student learning.
>
> Given this interest, I thought that perhaps folks in this community may
> be interested in the latest book project from the Open Organization
> community, *Human at a Distance: An Open Organization Guide to
> Distributed Teamwork*.[2] The book examines how remote, distributed
> teams can leverage open principles and practices—many derived from open
> source communities, which have been operating successful remote
> communities for decades—to create more dynamic, inclusive, and
> accountable organizations. You can find the book on GitHub, along with
> other volumes in the series:
>
> https://github.com/open-organization/open-org-distributed-work-guide/releases/tag/1.0
>
> BB
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> [1]
> https://heidiellis.wordpress.com/2020/12/29/open-source-community-and-socially-distanced-education/
> [2] https://theopenorganization.org/books/
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