To students and other university representatives

This is a call out to students and also people working at universities. If you think the Opera Web Standards Curriculum could improve the standard of education at your university, then let us know. We would love to work with you to get web standards taught better at your university.

I teach at the University of Hawaii at Manoa and have taught everything from Web Design and Engineering and Data Networking to Organizational Communication, Marketing, and Innovation and Organizational Change.

This is a welcome offering, esp. the XML, HTML and CSS which I regularly suggest to students as important to learn. The background is helpful as well.

Browsing the first few articles, I can say immediately that we need video and other visual means of communication and information presentation. YouTube videos, embedded slideshows aka Google Docs and Slideshare, narrated presentations and interactive tools are so helpful and important to the hard-to-get-their-attention students. It would also be very helpful to have everything subscribable as an RSS w/ Enclosures as pdf, audio, and video.

Let me know if I can help on this.

Cheers,
Jeff McNeill
http://jeffmcneill.com

I have been teaching web standards for several years at The Art Institute of Dallas and welcome this support curriculum. So far I think we comply with most of what is published here, but just having the reference is great for additional resources for our students.

My main request is for pdf files - individual papers and one for all content. This would allow better control of 2 sided printing and save some trees, as well as keep the data better organized. Is this available and I haven't found it?

Thanks for the work involved in this. I also agree with Jeff, if this could also grow to audio and video components, it would be awesome.

Wayne Batchelder

I am teaching in Belize, CA which is a third world country, and I believe a printable or offline version would be a deffinate asset. Is there some way as wayneb asked to get all the content of this curiculum in a single package?

I know that web refers to things online, but we do have limited bandwidth in the Belize schools, and it would save a ton of time if I would be able to give this as handouts in class so that the students would be able to have this information for reference.

Thank you
Troy McBride

im a student in binus university indonesia. hope someone give me more knowlage about this.

I found some of universities in Indonesia have already the web standard & accessibility rules officially for their internal web development. At least their homepages are valid x/html (based on w3c; but still not valid by validome), valid css & passed ATRC (based on WCAG 2.0) test.

regards,
Dani Iswara
http://daniiswara.net/

Originally posted by wayneb:

I have been teaching web standards for several years at The Art Institute of Dallas and welcome this support curriculum. So far I think we comply with most of what is published here, but just having the reference is great for additional resources for our students.

My main request is for pdf files - individual papers and one for all content. This would allow better control of 2 sided printing and save some trees, as well as keep the data better organized. Is this available and I haven't found it?

Thanks for the work involved in this. I also agree with Jeff, if this could also grow to audio and video components, it would be awesome.

Wayne Batchelder

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Originally posted by wayneb:

My main request is for pdf files - individual papers and one for all content. This would allow better control of 2 sided printing and save some trees, as well as keep the data better organized. Is this available and I haven't found it?

Ditto the request for PDF files, something that lends itself nicely to printing. Is this something that we can prepare ourselves? Can we use these lectures saved locally in our own class site as long as it is properly attributed? I'm moving from my own prepared lectures to using this curriculum in my beginning XHTML and CSS class.

Thank you!