The Web Standards Project (WaSP) is a grassroots coalition fighting for standards which ensure simple, affordable access to web technologies for all.
The WaSP Education Task Force and W3C Quality Assurance Interest Group propose the creation of a curriculum framework to help educators teach best practices in Web design and development more effectively. Upon completing modules in such a curriculum, a student should have sound knowledge of best practices and a solid foundation upon which to build.
If you are an educator or have influence over curriculum, we would like your input with regard to this subject. We have created a short survey as a first step to accomplish this task. The survey is brief and includes nine questions.
The growth of browser-based web applications has created a wave of interest in web standards, especially here in Australia. The WaSP initiative will most likely be aimed at US curriculum, however there are AU based groups such as the Web Standards Group who will hopefully be keeping a close eye on progress.
When I was studying Computer Science and Multimedia at university almost a decade ago, I have a vague recollection of the few weeks we spent on ‘Introduction to HTML publishing’. We had to make a basic page using the now prehistoric Netscape Communicator, which came bundled with a HTML editor of sorts to compliment the Navigator browser. That was pretty much the end of the HTML portion of my studies, although thankfully I was able to continue learning more from the online communities popping up all over the place. One of the communities I started taking an interest in was the Web Standards Project (WaSP), and I soon realised there was a whole lot more to HTML than tables with fluorescent backgrounds and blinking marquees! For that, I will be eternally grateful…
If you’re an education professional, please fill out the survey.
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