[edutex] TeX teaching

[J C]

Hello all and Boris,


After thinking about the conversation, perhaps rather than (or as an alternative to?) a certification, I suggest a new-user and/or student competition. From my end of the public school (Oak Grove High School, San Jose, California) spectrum, I feel like my colleagues would not find value in being TeX certified and this would not improve our membership numbers or quality. A student competition, however, would involve teachers or mentors seeking out students who would already be willing to learn and produce some document to specifications using TeX, hence actually fostering a fondness for it rather than a sense of obligation.


If we are still interested in the certification route, I would be unable to produce modules or training guides at this point, but I would be happy to be a guinea pig in testing it to let the producers know how much time it actually ends up taking me and my potential successes with it.


// J.C. Claudio :: UCSD Class of 2003


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From: edutex <edutex-bounces at tug.org> on behalf of Boris Veytsman <borisv at lk.net>
Sent: Sunday, July 23, 2017 1:55 PM
To: edutex at tug.org
Subject: [edutex] TeX teaching

Dear friends at EduTeX

I've just had a nice talk with Jennifer and Dennis Claudio at a Palo
Alto cafe (I am moving to this area due to a change of my job).  The
ideas below are mostly theirs (modulo my mistakes and
misunderstanding).

Is it possible for us to create

1.  A sample syllabus for teaching TeX (LaTeX OR ConTeXt).

2.  An online instructor certification program, where anybody can get
    a paper that a person have studied the syllabus, passed the test
    and can teach TeX herself.


The certification should be free (or deeply discounted) for school
teachers, probably modestly priced for everybody else, with any
proceedings benefitting TUG and TeX education fund.

Are there people on this list interested in this activity?

--
Good luck

-Boris

"Those who will be able to conquer software will be able to conquer the
world."
                -- Tadahiro Sekimoto, president, NEC Corp.
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